At 20, does Amine Gouiri deserve to finally have a chance with OL?

• Amine Gouiri (20) scored six goals last week in the OL jersey, with the Youth League in Zaragoza (1-3) and in National 2 against Moulins Yzeure (5-1).
• If he regularly calls on Rayan Cherki (16) and Maxence Caqueret (20), Rudi Garcia is hitherto less inclined to launch in Ligue 1 the promising striker, to whom he had advised to leave this winter.

“Rudi was able to support the emergence of young talents like Maxence Caqueret and Rayan Cherki, without forgetting the conditions for Amine Gouiri to return to his best level after a very serious injury. Here is a funny extract from Jean-Michel Aulas' self-interview published on Monday on the OL website. Because Amine Gouiri, who has just celebrated her 20th birthday on Sunday, has something to be confused by the management of Rudi Garcia about it.

On the bench twice, without the slightest entry into play this season in Ligue 1, the international U21 was however entitled to seven minutes in a Champions League match in St. Petersburg (2-0). And that only six hours after taking part in the Youth League match there. “I had played 45 minutes and at half-time, I was told to come back with the pros to play in the evening because there was a patient [Martin Terrier], said the man last week on OLTV. I believe I am the only player in history to have done this. "

Lyon: How the flagship striker of the World U17 Amine Gouiri "reminds Karim Benzema" at OL https://t.co/QbDvhWW44h pic.twitter.com/WA0WIv1Ifb

"In the long term, I want to be an indisputable holder at OL"

Expected as a phenomenon, compared to Karim Benzema and spearhead of the Bleuets at the U17 World Cup in October 2017 in India (four goals scored), the international hopeful would like to mark the history of OL in a different way. But his knee injury (in August 2018) only allowed him to return to the pitch in March 2019. And this season, in addition to two other French Cup appearances with Rudi Garcia, he was only allowed one tenure, a solid match, December 18 in the 8th finals of the League Cup against Toulouse (4-1). If he still runs after his first goal with the pros (14 games played since November 2017), he comes out of an incredible week in the lower categories.

📽 Relive the qualification of our # U19 in 1/8 finals of @UEFAYouthLeague! 👊

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First, he scored twice with the U19 on Wednesday in the Youth League to qualify OL in the round of 16 of the event in Zaragoza (1-3). Then a quadruple (in a half time!) And a decisive pass to curb the second of National 2 (4th division) Moulins Yzeure (5-1) three days later. All with an ambition clearly assumed on the chain of his club: “I want to have the maximum playing time this season and start putting goals. And in the long term be an indisputable holder at OL, and especially win the championship because it's been a long time that it has not been the case.

🎥 The goals of the reserve victory against Moulins Yzeure with the quadruple of @ aminegouiri 💥 # National2 pic.twitter.com/iCMHtvMPnb

"This week may have served as a detonator for him"

The end of the Lyon reign dates back to 2008, and the Isérois Amine Gouiri (born in Bourgoin-Jallieu) had not yet joined the OL training center. “He arrived at 14 and grew up with his club, says Cyrille Dolce, his U15 coach. Amine is a competitor, he always wants to go as high as possible. We must never forget that he came out of a crusader injury. It is up to him to get to the end of things and to continue knocking on the door of the first team. "

"He is a courageous and determined boy," continues Armand Garrido, his trainer in U17. This week may have served as a detonator for him. In any case, he is a type cut to play this role of striker: he is powerful, he has a good strike, good technique and speed. "

"Amine has a super rich palette"

A profile that could allow Moussa Démbélé (12 tenure rank from December to February) to breathe a little, or even to be accompanied in front. "Amine has a super rich palette and he likes to go into exile on the left side," says Cyrille Dolce. "We can imagine it on the entire front of the attack," confirms Armand Garrido. In particular, he always liked to leave from the left wing to transplant in the axis, a bit like Anthony Martial. "

Really it's a shame that OL do not have a young promising goal scorer to blow Moussa Dembélé (2565 minutes of play this season).

You should really train an Amine Gouiri player if you want my opinion ...

Except that at 20, Anthony Martial was exploding at Manchester United after a full season in Ligue 1 in Monaco and a colossal transfer. Armand Garrido comments on the problematic situation of the Lyon striker, who saw Rudi Garcia preferring the Karl Toko Ekambi option in the lead in order to relay Moussa Dembélé, Sunday against Strasbourg (1-1).

I am convinced that Amine is attached to the club and that he wants to succeed, it is to his credit. He had contacts and I could understand that he wanted to try himself at a higher level, including elsewhere. When you want to prove something at 20, it's not in National 2 that you can do it. We must avoid living an almost white year at the professional level. However in Lyon, it may be blocked for him. It was up to him to shake up the current hierarchy, as Maxence Caqueret, who was getting impatient a few months ago, was able to do so. "

Rudi Garcia advised him to be loaned to the winter transfer window

Amine Gouiri, who has just entrusted his interests to Alain Migliaccio (in particular agent of Zinedine Zidane), should he put pressure on his leaders, while he is under contract until 2022? "He has to face a big competition at his post, estimated last week Rudi Garcia. I had advised him to go and find play time elsewhere, during the winter transfer window. The door is not closed, however. Let him continue to score with young people. Since the beginning of the month, it has returned to the competition. "

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So much so that his former coach Cyrille Dolce imagines him doing everything to get started in L1 in the coming weeks: “It is beautiful that a player would want to stay and fight for his training club. I find it flattering for all parties. It is up to him to take up this sacred challenge ”.

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