Yacine Adli, the midfielder of the Girondins de Bordeaux.

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  • The Girondins de Bordeaux travel to Lyon this Friday (9 p.m.) for the 22nd day of Ligue 1.

  • In the absence of Otavio and while waiting for a recruit, Yacine Adli will once again have an important role.

    At 20, it's time to step up a gear for the talented young midfielder.

  • In progress in recent weeks, he is taking on a new physical dimension thanks to substantive work since the start of the season.

Yacine Adli is what you might call a football “attaché”!

A player as endearing for his talent, his maturity, his kindness as boring for his lack of rigor, accuracy and all the frustration that results.

A sort of Javier Pastore of the Girondins de Bordeaux.

Well, he is only 20 years old and still has his entire career ahead of him so as not to place him right now in the “intermittent show” column like the 31-year-old Argentinian midfielder of PSG.

A house where the Bordelais made all their training before joining the castle of Haillan two years ago.

Since then, it has been a white blow, a black blow and ultimately a very gray record.

Between hopes and disappointments.

He himself admits: “I had good matches, others less good, others not good at all, but I always give the maximum for the collective.

" That is true !

As it is also fair of him to recall the facts: “I started with six months of adaptation where I did not play a lot [six games].

Then we were arrested after six months with the Covid [three goals and three assists in 21 games last season].

So for me, I still don't have a full professional season.

I am still learning.

Today, you are facing a 20-year-old who could still be in a training center.

" Perhaps.

But a player of his talent can also aspire to win from an early age at the highest level like one of his opponents this Friday (9 p.m.) at Groupama Stadium, Maxence Caqueret.

Gasset as a fouettard father

To achieve this, he can count on Jean-Louis Gasset.

While Yacine Adli did not really progress with Paulo Sousa, his successor decided not to let go of him.

Even if Laurent Blanc's former assistant often recalls the age of his young player, he does not hesitate to shake him with words or gestures, for example by taking him out of the field against Reims in December after a very bad performance. .

The Bordeaux coach is currently facing a "fairly cyclical player who can go from excellence to relaxation" in a few seconds.

“You have to teach him the job, I try to do it,” continues Gasset, “sometimes he is surprised when I take him over but you have to be demanding with him because he has talent, after that is not enough.

He knows he'll be in trouble with me if he slackens.

The alternating current is not enough, in professional.

"For her part, Yacine Adli wants to be philosophical about this whipping father:" I have always been told that when someone is on your back, it's positive.

The day when he no longer calculates you and tells you nothing, you can ask yourself questions.

And beware, like everyone else, the patience of the man in the cap has its limits.

A physique finally at the rendezvous

The former Parisian seems to have grasped it.

After coming completely through at Metz at the start of 2021, he has shown a different face in the last two weeks against Nice and Angers with two assists in the game.

Good news for him but also for the orphaned Girondins of Otavio, injured.

For the staff, Yacine Adli is starting to reap the fruits of several months' work.

It has grown thicker and it's not just an impression as one leader explains:

Like others, he follows an individualized program.

Programs offered by all the medical staff but which Paulo Sousa did not want to hear about.

Jean-Lous [Gasset] put them in place from day one.

The method changed with exercises he does two, three or four times a week.

"

Result of the races, the midfielder "no longer explodes physically during the match", noted a member of the staff of the Girondins.

“Before, he came out of matches flushed, with pain.

Today this is no longer the case, there is a real improvement at the physical level.

We can even talk about metamorphosis, ”he adds.

But all did not turn pink so far.

Relapse can happen quickly and Yacine Adli is aware of the challenge: “A good game is good.

Two is good, but the most important thing is to have ten good games, then a good season.

To be a high-level player, it's to say that you can always go higher.

It's time to take action.

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