Former Arsenal and France midfielder Emmanuel Petit has tipped Paris Saint-Germain winger Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 as the frontrunner to win the 2025 Ballon d\u2019Or, citing the Frenchman\u2019s exceptional season as a key factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 has been one of PSG\u2019s standout performers this year, delivering some of the most decisive moments in the club\u2019s Champions League campaign. He scored the lone goal in the first leg of their semi-final clash against Arsenal, and although he didn\u2019t score in the return fixture, his influence helped guide the Parisians to the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This is Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\u2019s best season so far,” Petit said during an appearance on the talkSPORT Breakfast Show<\/em>. “His name will be on the Ballon d\u2019Or shortlist at the end of the season.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 26-year-old forward has racked up 33 goals and 12 assists in 45 appearances across all competitions, putting him in strong contention for world football\u2019s most prestigious individual award. Still, Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 faces stiff competition\u2014most notably from Barcelona\u2019s Raphinha, who has tallied an astonishing 57 goals this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, should PSG lift the UEFA Champions League trophy later this month, Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\u2019s chances of claiming the Ballon d\u2019Or would increase significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Arsenal and France midfielder Emmanuel Petit has tipped Paris Saint-Germain winger Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 as the frontrunner to win the 2025 Ballon d\u2019Or, citing the Frenchman\u2019s exceptional season as a key factor. Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 has been one of PSG\u2019s standout performers this year, delivering some of the most decisive moments in the club\u2019s Champions League campaign. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":528668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"pays":[93],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football-news-benews-sport","8":"pays-europe"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528680,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528667\/revisions\/528680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528667"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528667"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}