"Houssem, I call it crack . This is the word to designate a great player, "smiles Juninho, the sports director of Olympique Lyonnais. And Juni has not often had the opportunity to smile with his OL this season. Released in the championship (7th in the championship, 7 points from 3rd place), Lyon survives thanks to the Cups, still engaged in four competitions. He owes it in particular to the one who recovered the famous number 8 of Juninho, Houssem Aouar, 21 years old.
Goalscorer against OM (1-0) in the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France, against Lille (1-1) in the semifinals of the Coupe de la Ligue, against Leipzig (2-2) in the decisive match for the qualification for the 8th final of the Champions League: in short, if it is not always regular, during the "great" performances we always find the paw Aouar.
And Juventus is more than a big game. "Obviously, Aouar, it's him that we immediately think of as the element capable of bringing more, creating uncertainty, wearing OL, underlines Patrice Garande, the former coach of Caen. After, Aouar or not, if it is Lyon that we see in the league, OL will have no chance. To beat a team like the Juventus machine, everyone has to be at their best. Not just Aouar. "
The French team in a corner of the head
But Aouar, 21, can take the opportunity to show himself a little more before the whole of Europe. For his future. Friday, in Tuttosport, its president Jean-Michel Aulas, made an exit of which it has the secrecy: "I never spoke about Houssem with Andrea Agnelli ( Editor's note: the president of Juve ), but I know that he there have been contacts between some of our leaders. I would love to see Aouar at Juventus in the future and I hope that is his ambition. If Aouar has this ambition, he will want to take advantage of it to look good during the double confrontation. "
The one who, as a child, "looked like Xavi and Iniesta", says Fabrice, his trainer at AS Tonkin - in Villeurbanne near Lyon - between 8 and 11 years old, his first club, has grown well.
All the big clubs watch it. Didier Deschamps too. In September 2019, the Blues coach chose him after Pogba's package for the games against Albania and Andorra. Wounded to adductors, he had to withdraw. Guendouzi had thus been promoted. The Lyonnais is part of an extended list within the Blues. It is appreciated. Euro 2020 is going to be complicated, unless there is an injury to his post. But in the medium term, he is clearly applying. Good performances against Juve can help shake up fate.
