After an astonishing first part of the season, OL striker Rayan Cherki fell back into his ways, which meant that his team no longer advanced in the standings.
Humiliated on Wednesday in the Coupe de France by the amateurs of Bourgoin (N3), Olympique Lyonnais failed to recover its head on Saturday. Les Gones had to settle for a poor draw at home against Toulouse (0-0), which earned Pierre Sage and some of his players a text explanation with the ultras. The crisis is brewing in the Rhône, where the future of the coach, who nevertheless achieved an immense feat in 2023-24, is hanging by a thread. John Textor, who dreams of a more high-sounding name for his club, would be ready to activate the ejection seat if the bad patch at the start of the year were to continue…
“We find the Cherki we hate”
In L'After, on RMC, Walid Acherchour looked at Lyon's poor results and made a link with Rayan Cherki: “Technically, OL are extremely weak. They were my favorite team in Ligue 1 at the end of 2024 but now they are unrecognizable. And Cherki, there is a problem. We find the Cherki we hate, the one who touches the ball too much and makes the wrong choices. »
-Regularly decisive during the first part of the season, the 21-year-old striker was only decisive once in 2025, against Bourgoin, for the outcome that we know. Faced with the difficulties encountered by his team, he once again seeks to make the difference alone, which had hardly succeeded until now. Perhaps also that the numerous rumors of departure concerning him do not help him to concentrate on his game. The fact remains that with a once again individualistic Cherki, OL is having all the difficulty in the world to exist. And this is obviously not a coincidence…
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