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Wahbi Khazri ( Arabic : وهبي خزري‎ ; born 8 February 1991 ), is a tunisian external football player presently playing as an attacking midfielder or striker for French Ligue 1 side Saint-Étienne and the Tunisia national team. Trained at SC Bastia from 2004, Khazri made his professional debut there in 2009 and quickly became a potent man of the team with whom he successively experienced the rise of National in Ligue 2 in 2011, then of Ligue 2 in Ligue 1 in 2012. He left Sporting in 2014 and spent two seasons under the colors of the FC Girondins de Bordeaux. In 2016, he tried the experience at Sunderland A.F.C. in the Premier League ; his first base season was average and he was loaned to Stade Rennes during the 2017–2018 fiscal year. His good season in Rennes ( 11 goals in 29 games ) attracted the attention of AS Saint-Étienne, his stream club, which recruited him in July 2018.

Wahbi Khazri is besides the captain of the Tunisia national team, whose jersey he has worn 63 times for 22 goals since 2013 and with which he played the 2018 FIFA World Cup .

Club career [edit ]

Bastia [edit ]

A native of Ajaccio, Khazri started his career with local side Jeunesse Sportive Ajaccio before moving to SC Bastia. He received his first base call up to the senior team for their meet against Amiens SC on 20 February 2009. [ 3 ] He made his debut in that match coming on as a substitute in the 85th hour for Ludovic Genest. Bastia scored the winning goal a minute late to win the match 1–0. [ 4 ] He scored his first career goal on 13 March 2009, in a 1–0 victory over Montpellier. [ 5 ] Wahbi cursorily established himself as a goalscorer, scoring again a couple of weeks late in a 3–1 acquire over Vannes. [ 6 ] He scored again, this clock time on the final match day of the temper against Troyes, scoring the beginning goal in a 2–1 victory. [ 7 ] The loss mean Troyes would be relegated to the Championnat National .

bordeaux [edit ]

On July 1, 2014, he signed up for four years with the FC Girondins de Bordeaux. [ 8 ] He played his first couple in his new colors on August 9, 2014, on the first day of the 2014–15 season against Montpellier HSC. Bordeaux won by a finish to zero that day. He scored his first finish in his second appearance for Bordeaux, the adjacent sidereal day as the Girondins host AS Monaco on August 17. He scored his goal on a penalty that he himself caused and therefore participated in the victory of his family 4–1. On September 28, 2014, he scored the 3,400th goal in Girondins history. His first season at the Girondins was a success : he managed to win in the team as a starter and totaled nine goals in 32 league games. [ 9 ] He scored his first gear goal of the 2015–16 season, in his first match against Stade de Reims on August 9, 2015 ( defeated by a sexual conquest of 2–1 ). On September 11, he scored a goal in a high-tension match for championship leaders Paris Saint-Germain ; he manages to take the testis from the feet of Kevin Trapp, the opposing goalkeeper, tied if the match ends in a draw 2–2 .

sunderland [edit ]

Khazri ( right ) playing for Sunderland against Chelsea in May 2016 On 30 January 2016, Khazri joined Sunderland on a four and a half-year contract for an undisclosed tip. [ 10 ] Khazri scored his first goal for Sunderland against Manchester United on 13 February 2016, opening the score with a direct rid kick that beat David de Gea at his army for the liberation of rwanda post. Khazri late set up Lamine Koné ‘s 82nd-minute goal from a corner, as Sunderland won 2–1. On 7 May 2016, Khazri scored a fusillade in a 3–2 win over Chelsea as director Sam Allardyce ‘s team neared survival in the Premier League. Richard Mennear of the Sunderland Echo wrote that “ His solve rate was huge, pressing and probing the Chelsea defense and causing problems from set pieces. He has regained his form fair at the right time ”. [ 11 ] On 31 August 2017, Khazri returned to Ligue 1, signing a season-long loan at Rennes. [ 12 ] He was sent off on 14 October in a 2–0 Derby Breton loss at Guingamp, earning two yellow cards for dissent within ten seconds. [ 13 ] His nine goals helped the baseball club to 5th locate and qualification to the Europa League. [ 14 ]
On July 17, 2018, he transferred to AS Saint-Étienne for four years and chose to wear number 10. [ 15 ] Khazri played his first match with the “ Greens ” on the first day of Ligue 1, August 11 against En Avant Guingamp at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, [ 16 ] and it was on that day that he besides scored his first goal in his newly colors. He opened the score by performing a volley after a cross from the exit of Loïs Diony. ASSE wins 2–1 in this bet on. [ 17 ] On September 28, on behalf of the one-eighth day of Ligue 1, he achieved a performance at home against AS Monaco, [ 18 ] scoring the lone two goals of the match, therefore achieving his first double with Saint-Étienne. [ 19 ] On January 12, 2019, while ASSE traveled to the Stade de Roudourou to once again face En Avant Guingamp, Wahbi Khazri scored the alone goal of the match on a direct absolve kick back at anchor degree, deceiving the opposing goalkeeper Marc-Aurèle Caillard. This accomplishment allows him to bring his sum of goals to ten units, a sexual conquest he had never achieved ahead in a single season in the league. His irregular half of the temper was less brainy but he inactive ended the 2018–19 season with thirteen goals scored, making him the clear scorer for his team in this exercise.

The 2019–20 season is off to a unmanageable start for Khazri. If he is decisive passer for Romain Hamouma during the victory in Dijon 1–2, it is not until the eleventh day, October 27 against Amiens SC, to see him score his first goal of the temper, not sufficient however to obtain the victory 2–2. Khazri, who then gets injured with his excerpt in November, is out for several weeks. [ 20 ] Due to the state of matter of the club ‘s finances, he was placed on the unwanted list by Claude Puel during the 2020–21 season. [ 21 ] however, despite contacts at turkish runner-up Trabzonspor, [ 22 ] the golf club failed to sell him. He is therefore reinstated in the group with a first match against RC Lens, where he takes a bolshevik card after a late undertake. [ 23 ] He scored his first goal of the season from the penalty spotlight against Lille OSC 1–1 on November 29. His bet time is reduced compared to former seasons, but through perseverance he manages to regain his starting position and even scores the beginning hat-trick of his career in the victory 4–1 against FC Girondins de Bordeaux on April 11, 2021. [ 24 ] This match besides allows him to reach the symbolic prevention of 200 matches in Ligue 1. [ 25 ] During the 2021–22 season, on October 30, during a trip to face FC Metz, he scored his one-seventh goal of the season in Ligue 1 with a photograph from 68 meters, the most aloof finish of Ligue 1 since 2006, the first year in which the distance of winning shots is measured. [ 26 ]

International career [edit ]

youth teams [edit ]

In 2009, Khazri made his debut for the Tunisia national under-20 football team. [ 27 ] however, in November 2011, he was called up by Erick Mombaerts to the France national under-21 football team for a pair of 2013 UEFA european Under-21 Football Championship qualifiers against Romania and Slovakia. [ 28 ] In February 2012, he played his beginning and only game for the french side, against Italy, before being substituted by Frédéric Bulot. [ 29 ]

Senior team [edit ]

In belated 2012, Khazri switched his external commitment once again, when he accepted a call-up from Sami Trabelsi, the tunisian national team ‘s coach, including him in the team for the 2013 African Cup of Nations. [ 30 ] Henryk Kasperczak named Khazri among 23 Tunisians to compete at the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon. [ 31 ] In the final examination group game, a 4–2 acquire over Zimbabwe at the Stade d’Angondjé, he assisted Naïm Sliti and scored a penalty in a 4–2 succeed that put the carthage Eagles through at the expense of a favor Algeria side. [ 32 ] Manager Nabil Maâloul called up Khazri for Tunisia ‘s police squad at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. [ 33 ] In the second group pit, he assisted Dylan Bronn and scored himself in lend meter in a 5–2 loss to Belgium in Moscow. [ 34 ] With both teams already eliminated, he then played his contribution in a 2–1 comeback succeed over Panama that was Tunisia ‘s first at the World Cup since 1978 ; he set up Fakhreddine Ben Youssef and then scored the acquire finish, the 2,500th in the contest ‘s history. [ 35 ] Khazri was the captain of the tunisian side that came one-fourth at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. In their second group game, he equalised to earn a 1–1 draw with Mali in Port Suez. [ 36 ]

career statistics [edit ]

baseball club [edit ]

As of match played 3 October 2021[37]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Team Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Bastia 2008–09 Ligue 2 12 3 0 0 0 0 — 12 3
2009–10 31 2 0 0 1 0 — 32 2
2010–11 Championnat National 34 4 0 0 4 1 — 38 5
2011–12 Ligue 2 33 9 2 1 0 0 — 35 10
2012–13 Ligue 1 29 7 0 0 3 0 — 32 7
2013–14 32 6 1 1 1 0 — 34 7
Total 171 31 3 2 9 1 — 183 34
Bordeaux 2014–15 Ligue 1 32 9 1 0 1 0 — 34 9
2015–16 20 5 1 0 1 0 8[a] 1 30 6
Total 52 14 2 0 2 0 8 1 64 15
Sunderland 2015–16 Premier League 14 2 0 0 0 0 — 14 2
2016–17 21 1 0 0 2 0 — 23 1
2017–18 Championship 3 0 0 0 2 0 — 5 0
Total 38 3 0 0 4 0 — 42 3
Rennes (loan) 2017–18 Ligue 1 24 9 1 0 4 2 — 29 11
Saint-Étienne 2018–19 Ligue 1 32 13 2 1 1 0 — 35 14
2019–20 16 3 3 1 1 0 3[a] 2 23 6
2020–21 22 7 1 0 — — 23 7
2021–22 9 4 0 0 — — 9 4
Total 79 27 6 2 2 0 3 2 90 31
Career total 364 84 12 4 21 3 11 3 408 93

International [edit ]

As of 7 October 2021[38]
Tunisia
Year Apps Goals
2013 7 2
2014 6 3
2015 9 3
2016 5 2
2017 7 1
2018 8 3
2019 11 5
2020 4 0
2021 5 3
Total 62 22
Scores and results list Tunisia’s goal tally first.[38]

Honours [edit ]

baseball club [edit ]

Bastia

person [edit ]

References [edit ]