Yusuf Yazici shone Thursday night in Mila -
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Author of a hat-trick Thursday in Milan (0-3), Yusuf Yazici shines in the Europa League.
Already author of a "hat-trick" two weeks ago in Prague, the Turk is the top scorer in the competition.
A revenge for a striker who experienced a very complicated first season last year in the North.
To say that he has not yet started a game as a starter this season in Ligue 1. But this year, Yusuf Yazici has decided to make the Europa League his thing.
Author of a hat-trick a fortnight ago in Prague (1-4), the 23-year-old Turkish international managed the feat of putting it back on Thursday on the lawn of AC Milan (0-3).
The great architect of the Italian feat of Losc also became the competition's top scorer with six goals in just three games.
“He loves this competition.
When you do a hat-trick, it's because you were exceptionally good, ”said Christophe Galtier after the match.
A Lille coach delighted to see that the club's investment in the player last year is finally paying off.
🔥 Yazici offers himself the hat-trick with a sublime left roll.
It's fluid and it looks terribly easy for the Lille
👏 Note, the great job of Jonathan David on the pass pic.twitter.com/NgJlYACu7T
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A first season in the form of a nightmare
To secure the services of the ex-star of Trabzonspor, Losc did not hesitate to pay 17 million euros in August 2019. For a few days, Yazici had even become the most expensive recruit in history of the club before Renato Sanches dropped his bags at Luchin for € 20m.
Preceded by a reputation as a very technical player, Yazici will take time to adapt to the Lille game.
Too slow, lacking confidence for his first season outside Turkey, the striker has a series of poor performances and only scores a small goal in 25 games before the big tile.
On December 21, 2019 in Monaco, the player suffered a rupture of the cruciate ligament of the knee.
Nightmare season over.
For six months, the attacker will gradually recover.
“He worked a lot to come back after his injury.
We are happy for him ”, admitted José Fonte, the northerner captain, at the microphone of
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at the end of the match in Milan.
Off the field, he learned French and spent a lot of time with Celik and Yimaz, his two Turkish compatriots in Lille.
Returned to form this season, the player is still awaiting his first start in Ligue 1 this season.
But Galtier, who knows how to manage this big character, made him an indisputable holder in the European Cup.
“It's Yusuf's Europa League,” smiles Fonte.
The Turk has already succeeded in putting Europe at his feet before France.
The easiest remains to be done ...
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