Hatem Ben Arfa rolls back the years for Bordeaux against PSG

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Ben Arfa was brilliant at the weekend, setting up a goal and wreaking havoc against his old club

By Adam White and Eric Devin for Get French Football News

Hatem Ben Arfa has some distance to go before he reaches the proverbial nine lives of a cat, but Bordeaux’s 2-2 draw with PSG at the weekend offered evidence that he may be able to write another chapter to his career, even at the age of 33. There were hints that he was clicking into gear against Rennes last weekend, when he scored the winner in a 1-0 victory over his former club, and he was electric on Saturday in another of his old haunts, setting up a goal and generally wreaking havoc at the Parc des Princes.

Aside from an ill-fated sojourn at PSG, Ben Arfa has generally been impressive since his return to France from England five years ago. At Nice he formed a strike partnership with Valère Germain that was as unlikely as it was effective. Nice’s brand of attacking football under Claude Puel was scintillating but it seemed that, given their financial limitations, a realistic tilt at the Champions League places was beyond their means. As a result, Ben Arfa was soon lured to pastures greener, acknowledging as he did so the debt that he owed to the southern club, who had to wait some eight months for him to make his debut following a transfer imbroglio over his aborted spell with Hull City.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/nov/30/hatem-ben-arfa-rolls-back-years-bordeaux-psg-ligue-1

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