It seems he will have “a playing card“. It seems that Rudi Garcia”count on him“. It seems that in Lyon, this season, we will see more young people, absence of the Champions League requires. After three league matches and a record that we will qualify as mixed (1 victory, 1 draw and 1 defeat), it’s already time to take stock and the end of pretense.
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The certainties are rare, that they concern an appropriate tactical system for the European games, much less for the bitter national battles. That they concern the so-called executives, some of whom have their heads elsewhere. That they concern the ability of Rudi Garcia to really redefine the face of OL. In this ocean of questions, an answer, visible like the nose in the middle of the face: Rayan Cherki.
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League 1
Juninho criticizes the Montpellier-OL arbitration: “We knew we would play ten”
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Yesterday At 06:59
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In the middle of a grayish start to the season, it will have been the only thinning in a stereotypical Lyon game, not to say sclerotic. Entered into play against Dijon, the kid had offered a goal ready to Maxwel Cornet who had missed. His sense of percussion, his taste for one on one and his left paw had added an exquisite note to a beautiful score of the Lyonnais, Memphis Depay in mind.
Rayan Cherki against Montpellier
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Diversity in profile and disturbing resemblance
Thursday, against Montpellier, his entry into the game will have blown up his people and his penalty scratched, after an action where his technical palette, heel of handing over, taking depth and acceleration, will have symbolized everything he can bring to this OL .
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9 L1 matches: This is what weighs the young Lyonnais of 17 years. A featherweight alongside the Memphis Depay, Moussa Dembélé, Karl Toko-Ekambi, Houssem Aouar or even Jeff Reine-Adelaïde. Yet the fittest of all is him. His technical profile, while percussion, also meets a need in the Lyon game where, without depth, the athletic qualities of some are much less useful.
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In the trough, this is what Rudi Garcia pointed out on Monday, before the defeat in Montpellier. “He is different, able to make individual differences, like Memphis (Depay), Jeff (Reine-Adélaïde) or Houssem (Aouar), he had explained. He knows it, he needs to improve his use of the ball, he is doing it, I think“. It is not his entry into the Mosson that will go against this observation.
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Garcia: “I make sure to remind Juni that we need room for Cherki”
In reality, Cherki is synonymous with taking initiatives. To see him claim the swells to launch, without particular apprehension to the duel, the mimicry is disturbing. With his number 18 on his back, he looks like Nabil Fekir of 2014-2015, when each support of the left-hander martyred any defender.
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Garcia has not finished being “inflated”
So this is the dilemma that presents itself to Rudi Garcia. Make a 17 year old kid a potential holder in a team where recruits, sometimes bought at a high price, elbow each other to scratch playing time. He did not cost anything on paper but he can so much to bring. If Memphis Depay or Houssem Aouar were to leave the club, he would almost automatically find himself catapulted as the only offensive detonator of Gones.
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Can we decently, when we are OL put our fate between the feet of a 17 year old kid? It seems, once again, that talent is ageless. “It’s a feeling, an intuition of the coach who feels that it is the moment,Ludovic Batelli explained to us a few years ago to know when to properly launch a youngster. We look at his game intelligence, the intensity of his movements, the desire and aggressiveness he puts on …“
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Faced with this table, hard not to see the obvious: a place of holder in an OL that is looking for a particle accelerator. Rudi Garcia no longer wanted to be “inflated” with young people? It started badly as Cherki already looks like a lethal weapon that should be used decently. From the start.
Rayan Cherki and Maxence Caqueret after victory against Manchester City
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A double from Savanier and OL leave empty-handed from Montpellier
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09/15/2020 At 8:45 PM
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League 1
Doctor Memphis and Mister Depay
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09/14/2020 At 11:04 PM
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