To fill two years, three months and fourteen days, it takes more than a million minutes and a lot of patience. Corentin Tolisso, above all, had to arm himself with courage, because, in his eleven-year career, he was injured for 836 very long days. As many sticks as the French international was able to write on the walls of his cell, with a taste of iron in his mouth. Having remained on the floor for 153 matches, the midfielder can still boast of knowing the anatomy by heart with glitches in the thigh, knee, calf, ankle, tendon, tibia and even the back. 'elder. Not yet decided to retrain as a doctor, he preferred, at the age of 30, to show that the high level still had to count on him by multiplying the very good performances at the heart of the Olympique Lyonnais game.
A rediscovered regularity
Returning to his training club after five successful years, but far too punctuated by these forced cuts, at Bayern Munich, the Rhone native was far from his level displayed during the last decade. Out of time and lacking rhythm, he never weighed – or even negatively – on the team's results during the last two seasons. But this time, it's good! Since last March, the injuries have been behind him and this consistency allows him to have taken leadership of the Lyon midfield. Thursday evening, he once again showed his importance by entering at half-time of the fifth day of the Europa League to rescue OL from the trap set by Qarabağ (1-4) with the help of a perfect long-range strike and a vital mastery of tempo.
He works in the gym every day to avoid injuries.
One of the pillars of the Lyonnais gang even turned into a Stakhanovist according to his friend Alexandre Lacazette. « He works every day in the gym to avoid injuries, to return to his high level. He can have a real talk about the mind because he has a real story, he came back from major injuries, he is still working like hell to get back to this level, and it's paying off »admired the captain of Les Gones in an interview with the media Carré.
An additional offensive asset
The one who confessed to being consumed by stress during his last season at Bayern and who had imposed a « too drastic dietary restriction » causing such fragility, has also confided in a sophrologist since his return to Lyon. “She helped me a lot. There was that, plus the physiotherapists, plus the nutritionist who is with us every day, and with whom I had to make quite a few appointments. She told me that I had to stop worrying, that I had to give my body enough energy to be able to put in the effort and the matches.”he detailed last May to Bein Sports after an end to the season which suggested a return to the forefront.
This year, Corentin Tolisso has no equal in his club's midfield. If Nemanja Matić has held the helm since his arrival, he is more discreet this season, Jordan Veretout and Tanner Tessmann are complementary to the Frenchman, but still irregular, while Maxence Caqueret has fallen back in the hierarchy through missed matches. Higher up on the pitch, the 2018 world champion stands out in the opposing camp, or even the surface, as against Saint-Étienne, Lille or even Beşiktaş. Against Qarabağ, he used one of his favorite weapons: shooting from afar. Full axis at 25 meters, he got on his right foot to adjust Mateusz Kochalski, who remained stunned on his line. It smells good of his good years when he stacked these kinds of peanuts and it even makes Alexandre Lacazette dream: « He can go to the French team. » Since the last of his 28 selections, 1,255 days have passed and it is certain that the main person concerned has not forgotten any of them.
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