From almost zero efficiency since August to this week when the goals came out “like ketchup” to paraphrase Ronaldo, things have happened in the OL attack.
While, for many weeks, Alexandre Lacazette and Georges Mikautadze gave us the breakdown, it seems that OL are reviving again with their two clinical scorers… at the same time. Ardent defender of their General and their scorer Georgian in the weeks of scarcity, Pierre Sage was not unhappy to talk about the duo this Sunday after the victory in Nice (4-1): “We never had a problem with the center forward. We were accused of having offensive problems but for me it was a problem with our game. This week, they scored 5 goals out of 8. Without playing Thursday for Alexandre Lacazette, coming in at the end for Georges Mikautadze today (…) I tend to think that when one is efficient, the other will be too. Both pull each other upwards.”
Lacazette: “With Georges (Mikautadze), there is a great understanding”
Indeed between a Mikautadze who doubled his total of goals (4) against Qarabag by signing his second double of the season (the most spectacular) and Alexandre Lacazette who responded to the doubts of his failure against Yehvann Diouf in Reims with a hat-trick , going from two to five goals in Ligue 1, the smiles were back on the Gones attack front.
Alexandre Lacazette also raised the subject publicly in the mixed zone: “I hope we are off to a good start. In any case, with Georges (Mikautadze), there is a great understanding. The one who plays is encouraged by the other. It's good. Our competition must help the group. We always want to score to help the group and win.”
-For the moment, Pierre Sage opts to align one then the other, more convinced by his 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 formula than by a two-headed attack or another where “Mikau” came to play right winger but the technician is not set in stone, he who again reminded Friday that other options were possible to be “less readable” by his opponents. What is certain is that with its two effective No.9s, OL have regained one of the most feared attacks in Ligue 1.
@butfootballclub_ Alexandre #Lacazette talks about the return of offensive efficiency to #OL, of Mikautadze… and his stats which are similar to those of Jean-Pierre Papin. #OLOGCN ♬ original sound – butfootballclub_
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