Rudi Garcia, here last week during the Coupe de France match between Bourg-en-Bresse and OL. ROMAIN LAFABREGUE - AFP

  • On the sidelines of the Lyonnaise qualification in the last four of the League Cup, a new serious knee injury this time affected Oumar Solet.
  • The young central defender is the third player in the squad to suffer such a blow in a month at OL, which formalized on October 28 Paolo Rongoni as new physical trainer.
  • Rudi Garcia announced Wednesday "the establishment of a study unit to see where these injuries may come from".

At Parc OL,

We challenge you to find traces in the history of a professional team having lost in one month three players from its workforce ( out for the rest of the season) on a broken ligament in the knee. OL formalized this mishap Wednesday evening, with the announcement of the serious left knee injury of Oumar Solet, Tuesday evening during the last training session before OL-Brest (3-1).

OL deplores the serious injury of @ OSOLET_26, victim of a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee contracted last night during the last training session preceding the match against Brest.

Oumar will be operated on Tuesday January 14th. pic.twitter.com/AuHFzCCXgJ

- Olympique Lyonnais (@OL) January 8, 2020

The 19-year-old central defender (two appearances in L1 in his young career) therefore experiences the same pain as his partners Memphis Depay and Jeff Reine-Adélaïde, both affected on December 15 during an OL-Rennes (0-1) cursed for the Lyonnais. So many hard knocks that follow muscle glitches for Houssem Aouar, Memphis Depay (already him), Fernando Marçal and especially longer injuries for Youssouf Koné (ankle) and Léo Dubois (meniscus).

OL: Are we really recovering from a crusader injury like that of Nabil Fekir? https://t.co/4ErmEkrbHr pic.twitter.com/YXAST0ca70

- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) September 1, 2016

Only Fekir and Gouiri had been hit in one knee for four years

All these injuries have one thing in common: they have occurred since the appointment on October 28 of Paolo Rongoni, the new physical trainer of the club desired by Rudi Garcia. It's simple, OL had only been confronted with two ruptured cruciate ligaments of the knee for four years (Nabil Fekir and Amine Gouiri) before suffering more in one month. A black series that prompted Rudi Garcia to react, Wednesday after qualifying for the semifinals of the League Cup.

We are devastated for Oumar Solet and that forces us to say that it is not bad luck. We analyzed the videos from yesterday's session to understand his injury. We have to find out if there are things we can improve. It could be the shoes, the terrain, dietetics. We are going to set up a study cell to see where our injuries can come from. "

If he is not openly targeted by the former Marseille coach, Paolo Rongoni is necessarily weakened by this massacre, which contrasts with the previous seasons, during which OL were (finally) spared with Antonin Da Fonseca at the head of physical preparation. OL or the art of modifying a sector that has become efficient.

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