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Arsenal and Liverpool stars react to Aston Villa defender Lucas Digne’s performance for France vs Italy

Subhankar Mondal

Mon 18 November 2024 9:30, UK

Aston Villa are doing well at the moment, and it is no surprise to see many of their players away on international duty.

Morgan 🗹Rogers, Ollie Watkins and Ezri Konsa are with England, while Emi Martinez is with Argentina.

Amadou Onana i🦩s playing for Belgium, and Jhon Duran is turning out for Colombia.

Another Villa player who is away on international duty is Lucas Digne. The 31♋🐷-year-old left-back is part of the France squad.

France beat Italy 3-1 away from🔴 home at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milan in UEFA Nations League – League A🦋 – Group 2 on Sunday evening.

Digne was one of the stars of the show. The leܫft-ba🉐ck gave two assists.

Praise for Aston Villa star Lucas Digne on international duty with France

As you can see below, Arsenal defender William Saliba and Liverpool centre-back Ibrahima Konate were impressed with the displa🥃y produced by the left-bac💮k.

Both Saliba and Konate played well for France and earned rave reviews from the French media.

How the French media rated Lucas Digne

Digneඣ had one of his best games for France, and the st𒉰ats show that.

The Frenchman took one shot which was on target, played two key passes, had a pass accuracy of 91.3, won two headers, took 67 touches, made four tackles, one inte🍒rception and two෴ clearances, and put in five crosses.

Rating Digne’s performance as 8 out of 10 and naming him as Player of the match, wrote: “He had a big opportunity to play with this new start, and the Aston Villa player🗹 more than made it profitable.

“He made a decisive corner pass in the third minute of the game with a superb centre for Rabiot, and then again in the second period with a 𒊎free kick, again for Rabiot.

“But the highlight of the show remains his extraordinary free kick (granted to Vicario against his camp), from more than 30 metres, six years after the last one scored by a plaꦅyer from the French team (Pogba ag꧂ainst Russia in 2018).

“Defensively, he also held his rank by putting Di Lorenzo oꦗut of harm’s way.”