Eric Bertrand Bailly ( french pronunciation : [ eʁik bɛʁ.tʁɑ̃ baji ] ; born 12 April 1994 ) is an Ivorian professional football player who plays for Premier League club Manchester United and the Ivory Coast national team. Although he chiefly plays as a centre-back, he can besides play as a right-back. [ 3 ]
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Bailly began his professional career at Spain ‘s Espanyol, before transferring to Villarreal. He spent two seasons at the baseball club before signing for Manchester United in June 2016. He made his international introduction for the Ivory Coast in 2015 and helped them win that year ‘s Africa Cup of Nations .
Club career [edit ]
Espanyol [edit ]
Born in Bingerville, Bailly joined Espanyol ‘s young system in December 2011, aged 17. [ 4 ] Bailly was spotted by Espanyol ‘s Emilio Montagut after taking partially in a youth tournament in Burkina Faso, organised by spanish ship’s company Promoesport. [ 5 ] Some records of that meter mistakenly list his identify as Eric Bertrand ( his middle name misinterpreted as his paternal surname ). He only received a function let in October of the pursuit year, [ 6 ] and made his aged introduction in the 2013–14 campaign with the reserves, in Segunda División B. On 5 October 2014, Bailly made his first-team – and La Liga – debut, coming on as a late substitute in a 2–0 home acquire against Real Sociedad. [ 7 ] He was promoted to the chief police squad shortly after. [ 8 ]
Villarreal [edit ]
On 29 January 2015, Bailly signed a five-and-a-half-year shrink with mate La Liga team Villarreal for a € 5.7 million fee, chiefly as a substitute to Arsenal -bound Gabriel Paulista. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] He made his debut for the Yellow Submarine on 22 February, starting in a 1–0 home win against Eibar. [ 11 ] On 19 March, Bailly made his UEFA Europa League debut, starting and being sent off in a 2–1 aside loss against Sevilla. [ 12 ] On 18 October 2015, Bailly was sent off soon after the time interval in a 2–1 personnel casualty to Celta de Vigo at Estadio El Madrigal. [ 13 ] He made seven appearances as the team reached the last four of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League ; on 22 October he scored his first career goal and only one for the team, to conclude a 4–0 home group win over Dinamo Minsk. [ 14 ]
manchester United [edit ]
2016–17 temper : Debut campaign [edit ]
On 8 June 2016, Bailly joined Premier League english Manchester United for a reported fee of £30 million, signing a four-year contract, with the option of an extra two. He was the first actor signed by their raw director José Mourinho. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] He made his competitive debut on 7 August in a 2–1 win against Leicester City at Wembley Stadium to win the FA Community Shield, and was named man of the match. [ 18 ] He was again named man of the equal on his Premier League introduction a week subsequently, a 3–1 succeed at Bournemouth. [ 19 ] He was vote Manchester United ‘s Player of the Month for August 2016. Talking to MUTV, he said “ The Man-of-the-Match awards are something I hadn ’ deoxythymidine monophosphate thought about but I got them through the hard work I have put in. I hope to see more of that in the weeks ahead of us. ” [ 20 ] On 23 October 2016, Bailly was substituted off in the 52nd hour after suffering a good knee injury during the 4–0 loss at Chelsea. [ 21 ] He made 11 appearances as the Red Devils won the Europa League, and was named in the Squad of the Season. [ 22 ]
2017–18 season [edit ]
On 19 August 2017, Bailly scored the foremost league goal of his club career, Manchester United ‘s first in a 4–0 away win over Swansea City, following up after Paul Pogba ‘s header came bet on off the bottom of the crossbar. [ 23 ] On 8 November 2017, Bailly suffered an ankle wound where he was sidelined for around 100 days and returned to natural process on 17 February 2018 coming on as a substitute for Romelu Lukaku in the final 90 minute added extra time in a 2–0 succeed over Huddersfield in the FA Cup. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] He went on and made a total of 18 appearances and scored one goal in all competitions at the end of the season .
2018–2020 : Injury-hit campaigns
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Bailly ‘s injury problems continued in the 2018–19 season which caused him to only feature in 18 games in all competitions, with 12 appearances coming in from the Premier League. In July 2019, he was ruled out for a far four months after suffering a knee injury in a pre-season friendly against Tottenham Hotspur in China. [ 26 ] On 10 January 2020, he made his reappearance from injury by playing in a game with Manchester United ‘s under-23 team against Newcastle United. [ 27 ] On 17 January 2020, Bailly signed a biennial shrink extension with United, tying him to the club until the end of the 2021–22 season. [ 28 ] He made a rejoinder in the Premier League and played his first match of the season on 17 February 2020 in a 2–0 acquire against Chelsea. He played the full 90 minutes of the match. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] [ 31 ]
2020–21 season [edit ]
He made his hundredth appearance for the club in a 1–1 draw against AC Milan in the Europa League at Old Trafford. [ 32 ] On 26 April 2021, he signed a contract to 2024, with the choice of one more class. [ 33 ]
2021–22 season [edit ]
On 23 September 2021, Bailly made his beginning appearance of the campaign in an EFL Cup affiliation against West Ham United, which Manchester United lost 1–0. [ 34 ]
International career [edit ]
On 29 December 2014, Bailly was included in Hervé Renard ‘s 23-man squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. [ 35 ] He made his debut on 11 January 2015, in a friendly against Nigeria, [ 36 ] and appeared in all six matches during the competition as his side were crowned champions. Bailly was again named in the Elephants ‘ team for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. [ 37 ] He played full in all three matches in a crusade which ended in the group phase. On 12 October 2018, Bailly scored his first international goal in a 4–0 acquire over the cardinal African Republic in a 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the Stade Bouaké. [ 38 ] In April 2019, he suffered a knee wound, ruling him out of the extroverted Africa Cup of Nations. [ 39 ] On 3 July 2021, Bailly was selected as one of the designated overaged players in the Ivory Coast Olympic team for the 2020 Summer Olympics. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Bailly made his Olympics debut in a 2–1 winnings against Saudi Arabia on 22 July. [ 42 ] He made four appearances in the tournament and scored one goal, in a quarter-final kill against Spain. [ 43 ]
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
- As of match played 8 December 2021[43]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club
Season
League
National Cup[a]
League Cup[b]
Europe
Other
Total
Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Espanyol B
2013–14
Segunda División B
20
0
—
—
—
—
20
0
2014–15
Segunda División B
1
0
—
—
—
—
1
0
Total
21
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
21
0
Espanyol
2014–15
La Liga
5
0
0
0
—
—
—
5
0
Villarreal
2014–15
La Liga
10
0
0
0
—
2[c]
0
—
12
0
2015–16
La Liga
25
0
3
0
—
7[c]
1
—
35
1
Total
35
0
3
0
0
0
9
1
0
0
47
1
Manchester United
2016–17
Premier League
25
0
0
0
1
0
11[c]
0
1
0
38
0
2017–18
Premier League
13
1
2
0
0
0
3[d]
0
0
0
18
1
2018–19
Premier League
12
0
1
0
1
0
4[d]
0
—
18
0
2019–20
Premier League
4
0
3
0
0
0
4[c]
0
—
11
0
2020–21
Premier League
12
0
1
0
3
0
5[c]
0
—
21
0
2021–22
Premier League
2
0
0
0
1
0
2[d]
0
—
5
0
Total
68
1
7
0
6
0
29
0
1
0
111
1
Career total
129
1
10
0
6
0
38
1
1
0
184
2
International [edit ]
- As of match played 16 November 2021[44]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team
Year
Apps
Goals
Ivory Coast
2015
12
0
2016
5
0
2017
11
0
2018
5
1
2019
1
1
2020
2
0
2021
5
0
Total
41
2
- As of match played 16 November 2021
- Ivory Coast score listed first, score column indicates score after each Bailly goal[44]
Honours [edit ]
Manchester United
Ivory Coast
Individual
References [edit ]
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