The youngster was his side's brightest player at Stade Louis II, but for all his endeavours he was unable to find a way through
Gianluigi Buffon spoke before Juventus’ Champions League semi-final first-leg encounter against Monaco on Wednesday about the honour it was going to be to play against “a future Messi, Ronaldo or Neymar”.
The boy he was speaking about was, of course, Kylian Mbappe, whose sensational form for the Ligue 1 leaders over the first months of 2017 has seen him given a price tag of upwards of €100 million.
The 18-year-old has been a magician for Monaco since arriving in the first team, shattering records at apparently every turn, but this great Juve side proved a bridge too far for a young man who had netted five times in his previous four knockout games in Europe’s elite competition.