FEATURE | No Pogba, no problem: AS Monaco’s next-gen midfielders step up amid injury crisis

AS Monaco’s midfield was expected to evolve this season, but not quite in the way that it has. Last season, Denis Zakaria and Lamine Camara were immovable in the pivot, but the arrival of Paul Pogba, it was expected, would shake up the hierarchy.

La Pioche arrived on a two-year deal at the end of June with a three-month programme to bring him to match fitness, following two years in the footballing wilderness. A return against SCO Angers was touted. However, that game came and went…