Multiplayer melee interaction

Hoping to get some help on this. Can anybody point me in the right direction for setting something like this up?

You can see here the one player runs to the other and initiates the kick. The player being kicked rotates and is positioned correctly for the animations to sync up.
How do you get the second actor in the right place for the animations to work together?

I probably dont know anything about networking since i just started to learn basic stuff but it seems the replication is not “reliable”.