'He works very hard. At training‚ also‚ he always pushes us to give 100 percent.'
The two played together for a season in the reserves at Lille in 2015-16‚ where Pépé‚ a winger or striker‚ scored 22 goals in 38 league games has just had an outstanding 2018-19 Ligue1 campaign to be linked to Bayern Munich for €70m‚ or just over a billion rand.
Mothiba's strike rate is not as impressive as Pépé's‚ but he's a different player - a physical beast of a centre-forward with plenty of his own class in his technical touches and ability to hold the ball up. “There are some players in Ivory Coast I used to play with‚ and some I have played against because some of them play in Ligue 1‚” Mothiba said.“And especially Nicolas Pepe‚ who I used to play with at Lille. Pepe is a very good player. He’s fast‚ he’s technical.
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