Five breakout stars from the first half of the Ligue 1 season 💎 | OneFootball

Some wonderful surprises!

It's the winter break in Ligue 1! Last weekend, the clubs played the 16th of their 34 matches this season.

A great opportunity to take stock, halfway through, of the revelations from these first five months of competition!

Joaquín Panichelli - Strasbourg

Little or not known before arriving in Strasbourg this summer from Alavés, despite the 16.5 million euros spent by the Alsatian club, the Argentine striker has truly exploded in these first months in Ligue 1!

With 9 goals in 16 league matches, Panichelli is the second top scorer in L1 (tied with Estéban Lepaul), behind Mason Greenwood (11).

A thunderous start to the season that even earned him his first call-up for Argentina last November. So, Joaquín at the World Cup next summer?

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Tyler Morton - Lyon

Unable to make his mark at Liverpool, the English youth international, signed for 10 million euros by OL, quickly found his place in Paulo Fonseca's team.

The 23-year-old midfielder quickly established himself as one of the team’s leaders, with technical accuracy and a very valuable work rate.

He has only been left out of the starting eleven twice... and both times due to suspension. A real success so far!

Arsène Kouassi - Lorient

A revelation just the way we like them. Trained at Ajaccio, the Burkinabe defender reunited this summer with his former mentor, Olivier Pantaloni, when he arrived at Lorient.

The reunion quickly paid off, as Kouassi (21 years old), who previously had only 25 Ligue 2 matches under his belt, has been making a huge impact since the start of the season!

In just a few matches, he has become one of the key players for the promoted Breton side, their main attacking weapon.

The Burkinabe international gives opposing defenses nightmares every weekend, in a left wing-back role that allows him to fully showcase his dribbling, explosiveness, and overlapping skills, resulting in a goal and three assists so far.

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Mamadou Sangaré - Lens

The number 1?

Arriving from Rapid Vienna at the end of August (for 8 million euros), the Malian international has played every match for the club in L1 since then, almost all of them in full!

With his ball-winning skills and ability to get forward, the box-to-box midfielder has quickly become one of the key players for Pierre Sage’s Lens, the autumn champions.

He still has to prove himself over the long term, but Sangaré has already managed the feat of quickly making Lens fans forget the heartbreaking departure of Neil Al Aynaoui this summer to Rome, and he symbolizes the club’s current positive momentum.

Robinio Vaz - Marseille

Four goals and two assists in 14 Ligue 1 matches this season for OM’s wonderkid. Impressive stats already, even more so when they come from an 18-year-old striker, forced to scrap for the leftovers in Marseille’s packed squad.

In the little playing time he’s had (only seven matches where he played more than 20 minutes), Robinio Vaz has made a strong impact, earning praise from Roberto De Zerbi and winning over many observers.

The rest of his season will certainly depend on the opportunities given by De Zerbi, but Marseille definitely has a gem on their hands...

And you, who are your revelations of the season so far? Tell us in the comments ⬇️

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