Name: Jean-Kevin Augustin
Date of birth (age): 16th of June 1997 (20 years old).
Place of birth: Paris, France.
Club: Red Bull Leipzig.
Position: Striker, Right midfield.
Nationality: France.
Height: 1.77m.
Strengths: Explosive pace, upper body strength, clinical finisher.
Weaknesses: Predictability, especially playing out wide.
Jean-Kevin Augustin is one of France’s hot prospects. Graduating through PSG’s youth system, he made his debut in April 2015, but had since found difficulty in gaining first team minutes making a combined total of 190 minutes in 2016 under coach Unai Emery. Despite his lack of domestic appearances, it had no effect on his performances for France’s U/19s scoring 12 goals over 13 caps including being the top scorer at the U/19 Euro championships with six goals equaling the tally set previously by Alvaro Morata. This later won him the tournament’s best player and top scorer award. All these facilitated his call-up to the U/21 setup where he continued his scoring form with 4 goals in 7 appearances.
During the summer of 2017, Augustin earned himself a move to RB Leipzig in a deal worth 13 million Euros signing a five year contract. “I’m really pleased to be a Leipzig player, I want to help the team in attack with my flexibility.” said Augustin. He made his debut replacing Konrad Laimer (another player from the Red Bull project coming in from Salzburg in the summer) in Leipzig’s 2-0 loss to Schalke. So far Augustin has made 12 first team appearances till date scoring 3 times one of those being a match-winning penalty away at Dortmund becoming the first team to beat Dortmund at the Signal Iduna Park since April 2015. Three days later he scored his first champions league goal in a 3-2 home win against Porto making it RBL’s first ever Champions League win in the history of the club. Although he could have made more appearances but this was interrupted by some of minor injuries that has caused him to miss a couple of games for his team. He was nominated that year for France’s best U/23 player which was later won by PSG’s Kylian Mbappe.
Augustin is a typical young French forward, possessing pace, strength and skill to beat his man, always ready to lash on to a through ball for a chance on goal. For those who are familiar with Football Manager, he is the kind of player you would call, “An Advanced Forward”. In addition to that he’s also good at playing with his back to goal and is good at dealing with aerial balls. Capable of leading the line alone, he can also function in a 2-man attack as he has shown during his time with the French U/21 team often teaming up with Celtic’s Moussa Dembele. The duo have been destructive together scoring 11 goals between themselves. Augustin is also adept at playing out wide as a winger preferably on the right hand side as he very often chooses to beat his man with pace rather than using trickery to dazzle opponents. But this is where his weakness lies as he can be very predictable as when he keeps doing the same routine over and over again, his opponents will grow into and contain him. But with time he is sure to develop into Europe’s finest and it won’t be long before the big boys of European football come calling, and judging from what we have being seeing from him, he is likely to fetch a large sum.
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