Maxwell Cornet reunites with City and Guardiola to find his favorite heartache

"Maxwel Cornet uncertain for City due to muscle discomfort". The alert dates from the beginning of the week, and we can imagine the thrill of happiness that then ran through the spines of Lyon supporters at the same time as the shiny skull of Pep Guardiola. For the first? It meant a chance to see Melvin Bard evolve, the latest hype from the formidable academy. For the City coach? The promise of less restless nights to rethink the Chinese tortures inflicted by the loco of Bregbo (his place of birth, in Ivory Coast) to Citizens in 2018.

🔴🔵 Maxwel Cornet 🔥🔥🔥 # UCL @OL pic.twitter.com/2lhS5P5Z0U

Cornet's best match in Lyon history

On the first leg, a goal and a right side left fallow for a year by the gardener of the Etihad Stadium after seeing both Cornet bison martyr Delph and extinguish Sterling. On the way back, an unforgettable masterclass, undoubtedly the most beautiful Lyon performance of the person concerned, one evening when everything had started as usual, however, with a huge failure in front of the goal on a golden pass from Mendy. The result, however, had been dazzling, especially the first goal, for once Cornet was aligned in point, his training position.

The composition of #TeamOL to face Manchester City! 🔴🔵 #OLMC pic.twitter.com/idLCIvZhAt

"Guardiola must ask himself what he will invent for him from his left-back position," smiles Romuald Giamberini. The trainer from Metz has remained very close to Cornet since he hosted him during his years in Moselle. He spoke to her earlier in the week. “We talked about this famous double against City right away. Guardiola had praised him that night, so I asked Maxwell about how he was going to go about annoying him this time! ".

"He's super interesting in this post"

The champion of tactical versatility will appreciate knowing Cornet occupying a different third position in three games against him: right midfielder, center forward, and left back, therefore. Finding Rudi Garcia last winter, when Marçal and Koné, not very convincing, by the way, cheered themselves up in the infirmary. The Lyon coach had tried the same experience at OM with Bouna Sarr, Cornet's best friend among young people in Metz, imagine. A rich idea according to RMC consultant Eric Di Méco, who was initially called because he was on OL-City's comments two years ago. But we had forgotten that the former international had also started left winger in the old way, before falling back 20 meters.

“I find him very interesting in this position, and I understand all the better what he has to go through. I also started a winger and I passed a course the day I was retreated on the ground. Suddenly, it's more the same, you have the game in front of you, when you go up you have more space to go and provoke and address crosses. Even if he defended a lot, by placing him as a winger, I find that it took away from him the volume of play. There, he starts from further without direct opponent, knowing that with the three central behind him, he did not need to come back like crazy right away, there is security ”.

What does Di Méco keep for himself? That it is a position which makes Cornet's technical shortcomings much less visible than in front, where his lack of lucidity can lead the follower to shameful thoughts in terms of respect for human life. “I find him very fulfilled in this position, supports Romuald Giamberini. I think that as he is a player who gives a lot, having the entire corridor to himself, it suits him better than a more narrow position ”. The boy got used to the idea, after having shunned a little in his corner of not feeling better considered after his two games against Manchester, in the fall of 2018. He notably changed agent for prospecting in Germany, where his profile appeals the most, but he ended up extending to Lyon at the insistence of Juninho himself.

"He's a model teammate in the locker room"

"It's one more string to my bow," he said last winter to the media. It's a position I'm starting to enjoy and it can be a lasting solution later in my career, although I enjoy scoring goals. I do not exclude it ”. A sense of adaptation that does not surprise Romuald Giamberini: “Maxwel is a boy who knows how to keep it simple and listen to what the coach asks him to do. He is fully aware of how lucky he is to be there, among the players of the world, to play a Champions League match. I am very proud of the perfect teammate he has become. I saw him a few times in the locker room in Lyon, he's a model teammate who brings his good humor off the pitch and his volume when he plays. He puts his human qualities and his guts at the service of the team ”.

Guts that earned him a very good rating from his teammates. "We necessarily spoke to Maxwel about these three goals against City," explains Houssem Aouar on the eve of the shock. He helps me a lot on the left side. We are all satisfied with what he produces ”. Cornet, with all his faults, never hides, which earned him a thwarted relationship with some of the OL supporters. Nothing personal, most often, but a more general complaint. Cornet would represent a form of renunciation of excellence on the part of the Lyon club, which would never have allowed a so-called "average plus" player like him to play 200 games at OL (almost 50 goals) if he really gave the means to its ambitions. A few memorable occasions left on the way, such as this overly crossed recovery against Ajax who could have sent Genesio and his family to the Europa League final in 2017, did not help, either.

Apparently Cornet does not want to win a European Cup, do you already remember last year against Ajax his incomprehensible miss at the very end of the game ... if he shifts to Mariano I think that the qualification is acquired ... https://t.co/oC2uOKUIoJ

Late recognition at Ocampos?

Sometimes replaced under steaming broncas, Cornet has never said a word higher than the other in public or in private: "He is a father of two children very well in his sneakers, assures Romuald Giamberini He is like everyone else. world, he can only be affected by what he hears, but he only keeps the positive. He never told me about that ”. However, he can keep a certain grudge, as at the end of the stormy match against Leipzig, in groups, when the Ivorian international had asked Garcia, with others, not to greet the North Turn which had whistled very strong at halftime.

Maxwel #Cornet and Jason #Denayer trained normally yesterday without encountering any genes.

They should both start the game tomorrow night against Manchester City! #TeamOL 🔴🔵 pic.twitter.com/aypKuq57QI

Can the misunderstanding be dispelled by the grace of this unexpected replacement? Di Meco believes in it: “I saw guys play in Lyon much worse than him and who had cost much more. The problem is maybe he was not strong enough to play in front of a big club like Lyon, where we know how to get out of the big attackers. But I think he can really establish himself as an important player at this left piston position, even with four, with a little work ”. The former Olympian side even dares to see further: "It is enough that he blazes in his hallway against City so that we have another vision of his progress and that a big club is put on him. When we see the player Ocampos has become in Sevilla, we say to ourselves that L1 may regret Cornet one day ”. Still not the hardliners of OL, if?

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