Ở tuổi 16, Megann-Pave ghi bàn khi Montpellier thắng lớn ở Rodez

Montpellier did not need long to settle matters at Rodez AF, running out 3-0 winners in a Ligue 2 fixture that will be remembered locally for the age of một of their scorers. Laciné Megnan-Pave, just 16 years old, got on the scoresheet in the rout, a goal that stood out even amid a comfortable away win.

Rodez never found a foothold. ba goals conceded without reply tells its own story, and Montpellier 's visit to Aveyron will go down as a routine afternoon on paper. But for Megnan-Pave, there was nothing routine about it. A teenager finding the net in senior football, in a professional league, away from home, is the kind of moment that tends to get remembered long after the final score is forgotten.

A rating that backs up the headline

Megnan-Pave finished the match with a rating of 7.2, a strong return for any player involved in a 3-0 win, let alone một still four years shy of his twentieth birthday. It is the sort of number that suggests his impact went beyond the goal itself, that he was a genuine presence in Montpellier's performance rather than a passenger who happened to be on the scoresheet.

There is always caution to be had with teenage breakthroughs. một goal against Rodez does not make a career, and plenty of young forwards have had bright afternoons before fading from view. But Montpellier will have taken plenty of encouragement from what they saw, a 16 year old contributing directly to a comfortable ba goal victory in Ligue 2, not a reserve fixture or a cup dead rubber.

For Rodez, the defeat is một to move past quickly. For Montpellier and for Megnan-Pave, it is a result and a performance worth filing away.