Jonathan David, the Losc striker.

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  • Le Losc assumes its status as leader with a new victory in Bordeaux (3-0).

  • After a smooth first half of the season, Jonathan David stacks up goals in 2021. Still a scorer against the Girondins, he has three goals in four games.

  • For Christophe Galtier, his player is finally on top physically and has digested his transfer.

It only takes him 30 minutes to find the way to the nets.

We are therefore very far from his first ten days in Ligue 1 without a goal.

Author of Lille's third goal against the Girondins in an ultimately painful evening for Losc (3-0), Jonathan David began seriously to stack goals.

He is three goals in four games.

Yet in Bordeaux, he took a good place on the bench at kickoff because Christophe Galthier wanted "to relieve a player who is making a lot of efforts on the ground" in recent weeks.

But regardless, he came into play like a cannonball.

Moreover, it is simple for Thimothy Weah, also a scorer in Gironde, "it is his entry into play and that of Araujo that changed the match".

“We lacked speed and they created a lot of opportunities thanks to their respective play,” adds the young American striker.

Just like the action of his goal where Jonathan David makes a first intention pass from very high towards Araujo who then offers a cake to Weah.

A school counter.

A welcome awakening

The Canadian didn't just score, he also participated in the game as usual.

So what's the difference between the Jonathan David of 2020 and 2021?

“I already think that he logically took some time to adapt, he also had to digest his transfer (the biggest in the history of Losc).

After he came out of a long period without a high intensity session, the machine had to be restarted!

», Explains Christophe Galtier.

And the machine seems to be operating at full speed at the start of the year.

His goal is in the image of the player in confidence that he is today: a sharp call of ball in the axis and especially a lot of coolness to mystify Benoit Costil in his face-to-face.

Lille easily won in Bordeaux.

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His trainer also suggests a small change in attitude: “We had to impose a requirement but today he is in the mold like all the others and he is rewarded.

One thing is certain, the planets are lining up perfectly for Lille this season.

While they could have been worried about the absence of Burak Yilmaz,

nay

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Jonathan David took over at the right time.

Nothing seems to be able for the moment to stop this team or rather “this workforce” as Jean-Louis Gasset, the Bordeaux coach, rightly points out.

For the first time since 2016, Losc has just chained five straight victories in Ligue 1 and consolidates its leadership position.

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