“When you play at Olympique Lyonnais, it’s normally to win titles. The supporters miss it and we will do everything to bring back a trophy this season “, insists the middle of 22 years. Like the Lyon supporters, Houssem Aouar does not hide his ambition or his impatience.
His return to form at the dawn of spring is bound to bode well for theOL as for him who hopes to be selected for the Euro with the Blues, but above all on Sunday when his team travels to the Vélodrome stadium to face theIF.
Forgotten therefore the bad period of last fall marked by a suspension following his exclusion from Montpellier, by a positive test for Covid-19 and by an injury which prevented him from responding to two summons for the French team.
“It’s getting better and better, honestly. I dragged my adductor discomfort for a long time, but it’s starting to go in the right direction ”, he explains.
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Scorer in Brest (3-2) in mid-February, he brought his total to four goals, but he also gave three assists. And his relationship with Memphis Depay, the playing master of Olympique Lyonnais, remains one of the strengths of the attacking device of coach Rudi Garcia.
“I know that to achieve personal goals, with the team, we need to perform as well as possible and I will try to bring the maximum to the collective. When it’s like that, the collective often gives it back to us ”, he comments.
” I’ve evolved “
Usually associated with the Brazilians Thiago Mendes and Lucas Paqueta in a 4-3-3, Aouar played more on the left wing against Brest. A position he has already occupied in the past, under the Bruno Genesio era.
” It changes. I also used to evolve in this register. The coach gives me a lot of freedom. I can be a little more offensive and have more relations with the attackers and especially Memphis. But I feel very good, both in the axis and a little more to the side ”, continues the Lyon N.8 who is playing his fourth professional season in Lyon.
“I learned a lot of things. I have evolved, I have progressed but there are still aspects of my game to improve because I am still a youngster. I try to be the most consistent from one match to another but also during a match, to bring the best to the team ”, confie Aouar.
The lack of regularity is one of the criticisms that are usually made against him, both by observers and supporters, and it is by eliminating this gap that he will be able to claim to join a great European club, an objective he hoped for. reach last summer.
But no offer to meet OL’s expectations has arrived, in particular because of the health crisis which has financially affected all the clubs and the transfer market.
A stormy end of the season with Lyon should be likely to arouse renewed interest around Aouar, especially if he manages to land his ticket for the Euro.
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