Three goal involvements, one of the best ratings you will see all season, and Belgium left with nothing to show for it. Michael Olise did not just play well against Belgium, he controlled the game from inside it.
France won 4-1 in the UEFA Nations League, and Olise had a hand in three of the four goals: two scored himself, one more created for a teammate. That is the kind of return that turns a comfortable win into a personal statement.
A Night Without a Flaw
BSD's match rating system gave Olise a perfect 10.0, the ceiling of the scale. Ratings that high are rare, and they tend to arrive only when a player's influence shows up everywhere on the pitch rather than in a single moment. Here it showed up in the scoresheet twice and in the build-up once more.
Belgium had no answer. A 4-1 scoreline against a side of that quality already tells its own story, but strip it back further and the game was really about one midfielder refusing to let the ball, or the moment, slip away from him.
The Numbers in Full
- Goals: 2
- Assists: 1
- Total goal involvements: 3
- Match rating: 10.0
Two goals and an assist from a midfielder is the kind of output usually reserved for out-and-out forwards. Olise delivered it against a Belgium side in a competitive international fixture, not a friendly, which only sharpens the achievement.
For France, the result extends a run of attacking returns that have been hard to ignore this autumn. For Olise personally, it is the standout individual night of the campaign so far: three goal involvements, a flawless rating, and a man of the match performance that needed no debate.