Lucas worthy has a good season at Aston Villa. Back in the French team to compete in the quarterfinals of the League of Nations against Croatia this month of March, the French left side returned to its evolution within the Birmingham club in an interview with The team.
The former Parisian particularly highlighted the impact of his coach, Unai Emery, on his progress. Arrived at the Villans in January 2022, then led by Steven Gerrard, worthy took advantage of the absence of Alex Moreno, injured, to adjust several aspects of his game after the arrival of the Spanish coach in October.
“It was not easy”
“It allowed me to spend a course at some point in my career where I probably thought of spending one. I arrived at 29 years old, I told myself that I was in my best years, that I was going to continue to enjoy and surf my experience. In the end, he gave me new advice on tactics, on how to defend, adopt a new positioning for me and to which I had to adapt. He also imposed a new rigor, with enormous video work. It brought me enormously ”, said the Ile -de -France.
The most striking council of Emery, according to Digne, relates to the orientation of the body during the defensive phases: “He wants the lateral to look all the time towards his central defender to be able to keep the high line. My left shoulder is therefore often oriented towards the opposing goal. I am back to the line and I have to make a small diagonal to cut the attacker's race and not run in parallel to him. I took three to four months to integrate it. It was not easy. When you have learned for fifteen years an opposite positioning and you are asked to change at almost 30 years, you tell yourself, at the beginning, that it is not natural. »»
