Nuno Mendes, left-back of PSG, is one of the great satisfactions of the season. Aged just 20, he has already scored two goals and made five assists in 27 games. In addition, his speed also does a lot of damage to opposing defenses. Which gives him something in common with Kylian Mbappé, even if Nuno Mendes admits to being slower than his teammate.
The only small defect that one could find in Nuno Mendes these are his multiple wounds. Injuries that have already caused him to miss ten games this season. On the left side of the Parisian attack, his speed, combined with that of Kylian Mbappe, wreaked havoc with PSG, but the Portuguese international still admits that his French teammate runs a little faster than him.
The race for speed
Already at PSG last season, he only arrived in the form of a loan. PSG had been convinced by what the Portuguese defender could bring, and rightly so. His speed is one hell of a quality for him, he who was flashed at 34.4km/h in Champions League this season. A little less than the 36km/h of Kylian Mbappe.
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“We are two very fast players”
In an interview for the club media PSG-TV, Nuno Mendes mentioned this speed which he sees as a common point with his teammate Kylian Mbappe : “ We are used to playing together in training, in matches. We are two very fast players, Kylian is a bit faster than me, but I think we have a good connection and the speed helps us a lot. It doesn’t work in every game but the games where it worked ended in goals and I intend to give him a lot of assists, like my other team-mates. »
