Holder with OL during the second half of the season, Rayan Cherki is also in the process of winning with the French U23 team.
Not really in the small papers of Peter Bosz at the start of the season at Olympique Lyonnais, Rayan Cherki took advantage of the appointment of Laurent Blanc to become an important player for the Rhone club. First used as a joker by the former PSG coach, Rayan Cherki quickly became a starter and alternated good and bad at Groupama Stadium. Statistically, his season is correct with five goals and six assists, but overall the 20-year-old attacking midfielder left a good impression, especially at the end of the season.
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And this feeling of progress for Rayan Cherki is always visible at the sight of the matches of the French U23 team. Substitute in the eyes of Sylvain Ripoll at the start of the competition, Rayan Cherki established himself as a holder at the end of this group stage. Sparkling against Switzerland on Wednesday evening, with a penalty obtained and a nice goal scored, Rayan Cherki is slowly starting to turn around. Walid Acherchour admits it without difficulty, after having found the environment of Les Gones horrible at the start of the season, he is under the spell of a player who is finally maturing and whose talent is out of the ordinary.
Rayan Cherki is seriously gaining momentum
“I wanted to talk about Rayan Cherki because since the start of the Euro Espoirs, he has transformed the face of this French team with his comebacks against Italy and Norway. Faced with Switzerland once again it is he who will seek the penalty, he creates many chances and he scores a magnificent goal at the end of the match. Cherki will soon be 20 years old, he will continue his second season as a starter at Olympique Lyonnais, he will win with the Espoirs when he was a substitute at the start of the tournament. analysis Walid Acherchour on RMC before concluding.
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“I had a negative a priori with him, I had made a clear opinion very early in the season in November where I found him catastrophic. I found that he had no connection with the collective, that he was totally disconnected from the rest of the team in Lyon. It was the Rayan Cherki circus when he entered. There is still sometimes waste, like against Switzerland in the first half, but I think there has been an improvement over the season with OL, especially when you think of the matches against Lille or Lens where he was very good behind Lacazette » believes the consultant. An opinion which will undoubtedly be shared by Laurent Blanc, on the back of Rayan Cherki for several weeks and who wants to be very demanding with a player of such talent, and who can do even better given his enormous potential.
