The French team has a group of very high level goalkeepers with Brice Samba, Mike Maignan and Lucas Chevalier. Is the last named capable of jostling his elder in the number 1 position?
Representative of LOSC internationally, he who has now joined the hierarchy of goalkeepers of the French team, Lucas Chevalier (23 years old) has already played 19 matches in all competitions this season, including eleven in Ligue 1. This total, and the performances achieved on the national and European scene allowed him to reach this milestone and to be called up by Didier Deschamps for the very first time during this November international break. New level reached and the small skylight bursts into flames. Does the last bastion of LOSC have the means to shake up the French hierarchy? This is the question asked by the consultants present around the set in the show:
The Greg Team.
“Chevalier has someone stronger in front of him and there is nothing to start a match with”
Journalist for France Football, Olivier Bossard is won over and expects to see small debates emerge over the months on both sides: “I find that before there was a real margin between Samba, number 2, and Maignan, number 1. There was no photo legally speaking. The environment has really changed and there is real hype around Lucas Chevalier. I think that at the slightest mistake from Mike Maignan, at the slightest doubt, the cameras will turn to Lucas Chevalier. They would never have turned to Samba or Areola. It was recorded. I think it will start to sink in. We are dealing with a goalkeeper who is starting to upset everything and everyone. What's more, he has proven it at the highest level. We all saw his matches against Juventus, against Real Madrid… He is there, and he is strong. As soon as Maignan is less well, the idea that Chevalier could take the number 1 place will be in people's heads.he analyzes this way, and he is the only one.
At his side, Loïc Tanzi takes an opposite turn:
“He has the potential, but we will have to wait. Mike Maignan still has the World Cup, perhaps the Euro, behind him, and it is after, in 2028, that we will perhaps have to think about it. Maignan waited four years before taking this place in the French team, that of Lloris. Chevalier, who has not yet done a quarter of what Maignan has done in his career, can still wait at least three years. You have to wait”judges the journalist, transformed into consulting around the set.
Finally, it is Carine Gally who definitively decides in favor of Mike Maignan: “It’s totally logical that he would be called up to the Blues. Afterwards, whether he is stronger, I don't know. Deschamps is not going to get into this issue, or get into the mind of the goalkeepers. It is very clear. There is a number 1 goalkeeper, and even if Maignan were to have a hole in the next two matches, he would not call everything into question. Mike Maignan was very good in the French team. He had to take over from Lloris, which he did very well even though he was a monster, that's the reality. Unfortunately, Chevalier has someone stronger in front of him. There is nothing to start a match”she concludes.
