For a season, Nabil Fekir is the marvel of the League 1. For 12 months, he enchanted weekend OL to go already must for Didier Deschamps lists. His serious injury against Portugal (0-1) is a blow for him, his club and his selection. Even if the impact is not the same.
What’s it matter to him?
His progress appeared to have no limit in this season. It was he who brought her back from Lyon on the recovery, especially in Caen last week where he scored the first hat-trick of his career. Inevitably, this injury net cut in its tracks. After burning all the steps for a year, he’s nailed to the ground. He will learn patience he had never faced an injury so serious since the beginning of his very young career. This is a first blow to the one to whom all smiling.
Nabil Fekir, who suffered a cruciate ligament rupture against Portugal – AFP
What does that change for Lyon?
This cruciate ligament rupture is a severe blow to the competitiveness and therefore the ambitions of Olympique Lyonnais this season. Fekir was undoubtedly its best asset in August. We will have to do without at least until March and that OL will not be quite the same without its current best scorer. Despite what Jean-Michel Aulas, the prospect of achieving the 8th finals of the Champions League and tickle PSG in the title race got a little full-bodied in Lisbon this Friday night.
Since the takeover, the great form of Fekir masked the more timid of a Lacazette who dragged his back problems early this season. The absence of the first long-term will inevitably weigh on the second as the two men have forged an obvious complicity for a year now. In his absence, others will assert itself and the role of Mathieu Valbuena in the movie offensive could enlarge.
This is probably Claudio Beauvue that will take place in the lineup Fekir Fournier. But it should not be a new misfortune happens to one of two points of the OL. Because the starting end of the transfer window Benzia dried up the reservoir. Only the young Maxwell Cornet, still a little tender 18 years, is on the Rhone bench to play the game ends in a point. OL have the possibility to appeal to a medical joker. But what are the opportunities in Lyon? Belhanda, followed a few weeks? Midfielders are already legion. And hard to find a center forward who will bring a real added value while the workforce is already curly. Unless you put a high price.
While the departure of his great striker to stratospheric amounts clearly drew the end of next season, his long absence will inevitably affect its value in the month of June. The prospect of departure is already fatally compromised.
Mathieu Valbuena and Nabil Fekir (Lyon) – AFP
What it changes for the Blues
It is for the Blues this injury is the least problematic. Of course, Fekir miss any appointments 2015 posters and prestige in England and against Germany. Of course in his absence, others will assert themselves. Sure, it was expected to take off the Blues. But, at present, its participation in the Euro is not yet questioned. It could regain the land in March and he quickly returns to the level that was his before this twist of fate, if these healing time do not overflow, which is certainly far from over, it can quite participate the preparation of the Blues.
Didier Deschamps has sufficiently demonstrated its enthusiasm for the talent Fekir recent months to retune his confidence more easily than others. Especially as his profile does not grow on trees in the French tank. There will be less need to chain matches other to convince the staff of the Blues. His raw talent, if he still finds all its physical means by May, could easily be enough to convince DD to make it a luxury wildcard for the Euro.
Nabil Fekir at France-Brazil – Panoramic
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