Rachid Ghezzal Misses His Game, but ...

The leader of the French Ligue 1 went to snatch a good point of its movement at the Velodrome against Olympique de Marseille and PSG takes a point in the title race. With the injury and the absence of Yoann Gourcuff, Lyon coach Hubert Fournier, decided to! Entrusted the keys of the Rhone game Algerian international neo for him to demonstrate his worth with the hope to leave his mark on this part. Therefore aligned 10, the player is unable to find its bearings and has quickly found himself in deep trouble with the Marseillais excited and very aggressive on the ball carrier.

Ghezzal of the cadet is lost on the ground and was unable to find the solution as his teammates on the front of the attack. Quickly taken by individual marking Imbula, it has not been able to touch a lot of balls and therefore could not serve his teammates in good conditions to try to break through. Moreover, Fournier has noticed even before the end of the first half he decided to take it out and replace it with Ndjie in the 42nd minute. The player has very little appreciated this, but behaved as a true professional.

Winger left positioning training Rachid Ghezzal could not find ease in the position of playmaker. That is the main reason for his lackluster performance. Moreover, CANAL + commentators have been highly critical of the same player if they recognized that it was not in his preferred position, namely that of winger. In addition, they considered that perhaps was too soft for matches of this level. The player must quickly forget this meeting and regain confidence for the next exit and return to smile at the formation of Nice next week at Gerland.

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Pierre Menes (consultant CANAL +):

"He has not played in his post"
The consultant whimsical and blogger of the encrypted channel, Pierre Menes has certainly been somewhat critical of the Algerian international but granted him mitigating circumstances for positioning which is hardly used it. On the set of CANAL Football Club, he said: "Among the flops, there Rachid Ghezzal that was eaten by physically Imbula. However, it was not aligned in his preferred position during this meeting as it is a winger. "

Fournier: "It was a tactical choice"
Asked about his change before the end of the first act, Lyon coach has indicated in a press conference that he had not punished Ghezzal as some had thought. "I thought in midfield we were not enterprising enough. And the return of Clinton (Njie) was used to find some depth, what we lacked in the first thirty minutes. So it was a tactical change rather than to punish an individual performance. "

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