Amine Gouiri facing Youssouf Sabaly.
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Third game without a win for OCG Nice after the goalless draw in Bordeaux (0-0).
Led by an Amine Gouiri still in great shape, the Aiglons lacked success by touching the uprights three times.
At the start of the season, the attacking game of the Niçois relies heavily on the 20-year-old striker.
Maybe too much.
At the end of the match, it had almost become systematic.
As soon as Pierre Lees-Melou or Morgan Schneiderlin touched a ball, they sent it almost immediately to their left, towards Amine Gouiri.
The key player for the Aiglons at the start of the championship.
Except that in this meeting where Patrick Viera's players touched the uprights three times (two transverse and a post) without finding the opening against the Girondins (0-0), the Niçois may have relied too much on their youngster and talented striker?
At the same time, every time he touched the ball on his side, there was danger like a Mbappé or a Neymar.
Very technical, like the two Parisian stars, Amine Gouiri subjected the Bordelais, Sabaly and Kwanteng to torture.
“He lacked success but he is a player who brings us a lot offensively because he is able to eliminate, to come inside and to combine.
He must continue to work, to progress in his decision-making ”, notes Patrick Vieira.
Not wrong but Gouiri is rarely wrong for a 20-year-old player who plays his first matches in Ligue 1.
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BUT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE !!!
The Aiglons find the amount for the 3rd time in the match ... Gouiri's cannonball deserved so much better ... #FCGBOGCN 0️⃣-0️⃣ pic.twitter.com/nXHEkUzPSk
- OGC Nice (@ogcnice) September 27, 2020
He only missed one goal
In the last minutes, he made the right decision by going to challenge Pablo, slower than him, in one against one.
His strike just came to die on the bar.
Costil seemed well beaten.
In the end, only this goal or this decisive pass was missed to conclude a new full match.
In any case, he seems to be having fun on the Côte d'Azur as shown by his start to the season (two goals and an assist in four games):
“He's a kid who loves football, he likes being on the pitch, he's passionate about his job, he wants to progress, he likes to improve, he is focused on details.
It's a pleasure to work with him, ”adds Vieira.
Still, the opponents may very quickly read the game of the Aiglons if he continues to rely almost exclusively on him.
In Bordeaux, Jean-Louis Gasset made a change to physically hold the road against Amine Gouiri at the end of the match and brought in Oudin to really secure his lane.
Patrick Vieira, he believes to have seen "other players available on the field but it is true that compared to his ability to eliminate and his technique with the ball at the foot, he touches the ball a little more than others but that don't bother me, on the contrary (smiles) ”.
If his striker keeps this form, he may still have some of his teammates.
The correctness in each choice of Amine Gouiri.
He's not a young player, he's more than ready for this level ...
Yes I'm talking to you @OL.
- Gigg's (@Giggs_) September 27, 2020
What an incredible action from Gouiri ... the bar, no success for him
But he almost made a sacred individual feat
What incredible talent!
No Lyon striker is able to carry danger and the ball like that
- Yannis 🖥️ #HeatCulture (@Yannis_LB) September 27, 2020
Now, they will sometimes have to put themselves at their level to regain victory, like Ndoye and Dolberg not far from being transparent in this match.
At least, the Aiglons did not take a goal after the six conceded against Montpellier, then Paris.
But for a very ambitious team this season, it will quickly be necessary to end this series of three games without a win because otherwise the OGCN will sink into the soft underbelly of Ligue 1.
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