the strong response from boss Alexandre Lacazette

This morning, Olympique Lyonnais has great reasons to be happy. Indeed, the residents of Groupama Stadium won in style last night at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow against Rangers in the Europa League (4-1). After two days, Les Gones are full of points and this is excellent news after a complicated start in Ligue 1. On the European scene, Pierre Sage’s team is, for the moment, up to the task. Last night, Lyon was able to count on a great Rayan Cherki, who is experiencing his best period in the Rhone jersey. The Frenchman was associated with Malick Fofana, who proved that he had the shoulders to be a potential starter. The Belgian scored a double, as did his captain Alexandre Lacazette.

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Holder at the forefront of the attack last night, the General was eagerly awaited in Scotland. Indeed, the Lyon striker has not scored for his team since the start of the season and his return from the Olympic Games. Played 5 times in Ligue 1 (1 assist, 359 minutes played), the former Arsenal player did not find the net. Which worried a lot of people. At a press conference, Pierre Sage came to his aid, as well as that of Georges Mikautadze, who was also mute. Asked about his offensive shortage, the former Arsenal player also admitted to being confident last week before the C3 meeting against Olympiakos.

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« Yes, I cut it, I’m mentally fresh. Yes, I lack success in front of goal. But I had the same lack of efficiency last year. It’s just a lack of efficiency where all it takes is one goal to get everything going again. I don’t think I’ve had only horrible matches. I prefer to work rather than make excuses with the Olympics or lack of preparation. » Last night, “Lacaz” reassured everyone against Rangers. After Malick Fofana opened the scoring (0-1, 10th) following good work from Cherki and Lawrence’s equalizer for the Scots (1-1, 14th), the Rhone captain gave the advantage to his team in the 19th minute and ended a drought of more than two months.

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In fact, Fofana took advantage of an error by his opponents to offer him caviar. Lacazette thus doubled the lead with a flat right foot (1-2). He did it again with a cannonball into the top corner afterwards (1-3, 45th+1) before Fofana finished off the Rangers in the 55th (1-4). After the match, the Lyon captain was obviously over the moon, he who enjoyed his beautiful goal. “ We work on this movement in training, and then in training, I touched the post several times. I know that in this position, it’s up to me to be diligent and if I shoot well, it’s a goal. I know where the goal is, even if sometimes I shoot wide (laughs). In the top 3 of the most beautiful goals? Yeah, maybe », he explained on the microphone of Canal+ His teammate and friend Rayan Cherki was happy for him. “ I’m super happy for Alex, really happy that he was able to score tonight “, he confided. With a launched Lacazette, OL can now hope for better in L1.