Rayan Cherki (OL) comes up against the Olympiakos goalkeeper (Photo by OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP)
Scorer against Olympiakos (2-0), a few days after the Marseille disappointment (2-3), Rayan Cherki spoke of Pierre Sage’s contribution to OL’s success on Thursday.
After his public outing on Sunday evening following the setback against Marseille (2-3), Rayan Cherki had to respond on the ground. If his message was not excessively an attack on his trainer, Pierre Sagethe young 21-year-old footballer still deplored the team’s lack of offensive ambitions, speaking of “shame“. Placed in the 4-2-3-1 on Thursday against Olympiakos, he was in his preferred position, and demonstrated why he remained a special player at OL.
Of course, he didn’t do everything well, and sometimes slowed down Lyon’s game a little too much. But he was also at the start of almost all the good situations, before opening the scoring himself in the 65th minute. A liberating goal for him, for his teammates and for an entire stadium which had been waiting for this since the first minutes.
“We were back up”
This achievement launched the Ligue 1 resident towards success (2-0), the second of his season and the first in the Europa League for the first day. “It’s a great start to the European Cup. We wanted to enter this tournament in the best possible way, and that’s what we did. Sunday, we know it’s a real disappointment, because given our chances, we must never lose. We came back to win this poster“, confided number 18 to the microphone of Canal +.
Above all, the French Espoirs international had a word for the Rhone technician, to whom he gives great importance in Thursday’s result. “What made the difference was the coach’s speech. He got us back into it, gave us the confidence we needed, Cherki explained. I think that was reflected on the field.”
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