Gouiri, thunderclap at OM

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

MONEAGATE Tuesday evening against Ajax in the Champions League (4-0 victory for Marseillais), Amine Gouiri, then overshadowed by the veteran of the team Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, was a priori to find a place of holder this Saturday in Metz, in a match counting for the 7the act of the French championship.

Yes but here, Roberto de Zerbi decided otherwise. Alongside Mason Greenwood and Igor Peaceao in Moselle is a certain Robinio Vaz. The nugget of the reserve which this season takes on the braid and therefore celebrates this weekend its very first tenure in an official match with the OM pennant team (he had started in friendly against Charleroi at the offseason).

At 18, the powerful striker who appeared among the U16 and the Tricolore U17s has already distinguished himself this season by finding the fault against Paris FC or by smashing the Strasbourg transverse bar eight days ago before the goal of the Marseille victory signed Amir Murillo at the fall of the ball.

Zerbi's development

Author of a second part of the convincing season with the Olympians last season (10 goals and 3 assists in 14 outings), Amine Gouiri is struggling to make herself so influential in this exercise 2025-2026. Even if his coach, publicly, strives to salute his qualities. “” He's a game player, he likes to play and play others. It is not always in the surface. He never scored 20-30 goals in a season, he does not attack the depth “, Put on Friday facing the” RDZ “press.

An Italian technician who then announced the color, however: ” There are a lot of matches. This year, it's simple for me to manage the group: there are so many matches that everyone is playing. In the end, it is the land that speaks. I don't like to do any tests. But Gouiri is a strong player. Strong but on the touch for the moment.