After his first senior objective, French provincial daily paper La Voix du Nord compared Kanté to Claude Makélélé in his initial days at Nantes, because of their comparative assuming style and holding part in midfield. In the wake of inquiring as to whether he considered Makélélé his good example, Kanté rather said that his was Lassana Diarra.
Makélélé himself in February 2017 said that the one ascribe Kanté expected to end up an “outstanding player” would be leadership. A dynamic, humble, and persevering player, known for his vitality and magnificent ball-winning capacities as a container to-box midfielder, and also his positional sense, physicality, knowledge, adaptability, and capacity to peruse the game,Kanté made the most handles in Europe’s best classes in both the 2014– 15 and 2015– 16 seasons.
In spite of the fact that he is dominatingly known for the strategic and cautious part of his amusement – to be specific his capacity to remove contradicting assaults, handle adversaries, and block passes – he is likewise equipped for beginning hostile plays in the wake of recapturing ownership, graciousness of his basic yet exact and proficient distribution.
In April 2016 Alex Ferguson guaranteed that “Kanté is by a wide margin the best player in the league”.Regarding Kanté’s diligence and stamina, comrade Paul Pogba has said of him: “Everyone realizes that N’Golo Kanté can keep running for 11 players – that is his best quality”, while Kanté’s previous Leicester supervisor Claudio Ranieri remarked: “This player Kanté, he was running so hard that I figured he should have a pack brimming with batteries covered up in his shorts. He ran constantly in preparing. I let him know, ‘Multi day, I will see you cross the ball, and after that complete the cross with a header yourself.’ He’s unbelievable.”
Beside his playing capacity, Kanté’s Chelsea chief Antonio Conte has additionally applauded the midfielder for his teach in preparing and ability to enhance himself constantly,[60][62] and has portrayed him as a “total midfielder”.