The sun is shining in Morbihan, where FC Lorient and its new coach Régis Le Bris never cease to enchant.
Surprising dolphins of Paris Saint-Germain, they total eight victories in 10 matches and do not seem determined to slow down.
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At 23, Terem Moffi is clearly one of the centerpieces of this cannon start: the Nigerian center-forward has been piling up the goals since the start of the championship.
Last week in Brest, he scored his third double of the season (2-1), including a magnificent achievement in the skylight, after those against Lens (2-5) and Clermont (2-1).
With 8 goals, Moffi already equals his total from last season and rubs shoulders with Kylian Mbappé and Neymar at the top of the league's top scorer ranking.
In fact, it is indeed a return to the top for the robust goleador who arrived anonymously from Kortrijk (Belgium) - for all the same 8 million euros, a rare amount for Lorient - at the end of summer transfer window 2020. After a few months of getting started, he had dazzled with 14 goals in 32 appearances, contributing largely to the maintenance during the 2020-2021 season, before experiencing a difficult exercise the following year.
The delicate stage of confirmation
In a crisis of confidence, often lonely at the forefront of a team in difficulty, he had failed to confirm his first season of thunder.
Without losing the support of his coach Christophe Pélissier, who praised an irreproachable state of mind, and his teammates.
“
Everyone has periods that are a little less prolific
,” explains his partner Vincent Le Goff.
“
Terem has always been present in training.
There he saw a magnificent start to the season.
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“
It is thanks to the team that I shine
,” assured Moffi last week to the daily Ouest-France.
“
She advocates a collective game and plays good football, focused on the offensive.
In football, sometimes you give a lot without scoring, sometimes you are in the right place at the right time.
There are periods when we are lucky, others less so.
In any case, I always give the best of myself
”.
From the outside, some may have doubted.
We don't.
Julien Laporte
Another teammate, Julien Laporte, agrees: “
When Terem is served, he scores.
From the outside, some may have doubted.
We don't.
You see it in training.
He is super hard to defend and he can do everything: clinch and keep the ball with his back to the game, and if given space in the back, he is one of the fastest attackers in the championship.
On top of that, he has an incredible mentality
.”
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Le Bris is also full of praise: “
He is a boy who works a lot, who is extremely happy, who enjoys coming to training.
He has a lot of qualities and will go to very big clubs
.
In the meantime, Terem Moffi is the delight of Lorient, where he is under contract until 2024, and intends to have a very high level season, beat his goalscoring record and bring the Hakes into the top 10, or even higher.