Édouard Mendy vs Idrissa Gana Gueye
Senegal against Senegal. The almanac states its case, the crowd votes, you decide.
Édouard Mendy
Senegal · 2014–25 · GK
- Almanac rating
- 86
- Rank in Senegal
- #4 of 33
- Caps
- 57 · 0 goals
- Clubs
- Stade de Reims, Chelsea, Al Ahli
He was twenty-two in 2014, out of the game after leaving Cherbourg, drawing unemployment benefit in France and looking for work outside football. By 2022 he was an African champion and a European one, with Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations and Chelsea's 2021 Champions League as the first African goalkeeper to lift it, and he added the AFC Champions League Elite with Al-Ahli in 2025 and FIFA's goalkeeper of the year for 2021. Career record: 57 caps and 0 goals for Senegal; club career at Stade de Reims, Chelsea, Al Ahli.
Idrissa Gana Gueye
Senegal · 2020–23 · CDM
- Almanac rating
- 85
- Rank in Senegal
- #5 of 33
- Caps
- 122 · 7 goals
- Clubs
- Lille OSC, Everton, Paris Saint-Germain
Neymar's scuffed shot dropped to him inside eight minutes at the Parc des Princes on 28 September 2021, and he thumped it into the top corner to open a 2-0 win over Manchester City. He won the Africa Cup of Nations with Senegal in 2022, two Ligue 1 titles and two Coupes de France with Paris Saint-Germain, reached the 2020 Champions League final, and in March 2023 became the first Senegalese to reach a hundred caps. Career record: 122 caps and 7 goals for Senegal; club career at Lille OSC, Everton, Paris Saint-Germain.
The verdict
The almanac puts Édouard Mendy ahead by 1 rating point, 86 against 85.
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