Cornet and no burrs – Champions League

What do people usually sleep in a 22-year-old's room? Some posters, probably, remnants of an era when having Sangoku in close-up over his bed was a synonym for absolute class. A green plant, too, some ficus wedged on the upper right edge of his office as a gift from a wife anxious to hold a room she finally lives three nights a week. And then, on a wall of the room of Maxwel Cornet, between Vegeta and a healthy bonsai, a frame a little special. " The same evening, I received many calls and congratulatory messages, he said two days ago to The Team. I even figured in the typical team of the day in the Champions League, next to Lionel Messi! It's not everyday …(smile) So, I framed it, I post it in my room."
But in the evening what? On the night of the first of his only two maestrias in the jersey of Lyon, on September 19, against Manchester City in C1 (1-2 at Etihad). He had scored once. The second lesson, it was not so late as it to point the tip of his nose. It was tonight, again against Guardiola, again on a Bruno Genesio poker game. This time, two goals on the clock, we climb a step.

3 – Maxwel Cornet is the first player to score at least 3 goals in the same Champions League season against Manchester City since Lionel Messi in 2016/17 (4 goals). Fellow. @OL pic.twitter.com/gC2DkJT2q4

– OptaJean (@OptaJean) November 27, 2018

"I took what the coach gave me, even if it does not meet my expectations"

Chance does things well, motivation too. The last time we saw Maxwel Cornet in a jersey, it was already against Manchester City. The following is an inexplicable white as only Bruno Génésio can be the author, two months and two hundred minute minutes of play, a few rare banderillas in the league, and a tiring and understanding spleen where the English embers should have lead a brazier. "I'm here, at the club, I train and play. I took what the coach gave me, even if it does not meet my expectations"Said the kid last Sunday, aware of reaching a pivotal point in his career, the one where these people decide for you if you can pass a course, or not.
The transfer to Wolfsburg still across the gorge, so it was a revenge Cornet that had expressed this week, professional to the end of the crampons and maybe a little more, smiling despite everything according to the latest echoes of the Groupama OL Training Center. However, what can he do in the head of a coach to send coal in the Champions League a guy to whom he has not given any sign of confidence for almost sixty days? It is almost incomprehensible, which makes the data of the evening even less clear: the double of Maxwel Cornet does not answer any logic. Is it a stroke of luck? A tactical move based on the slowness of the Mancunian hinge? A die roll based on a simple ego reaction? It is to understand nothing there. For all that, it's a success. To remain stunned.

A bicycle slammed high, so high …

If the Cornet match will necessarily remain in the cortex for its two goals, the worst may lie in the fact that it is not limited to these. Before opening the scoring against Ederson shortly before the hour of play, on a strike curled slightly skylight, there had been the madness to shake Jean-Michel Aulas, a flick of volley slammed at the height of a gull in full migration to touch the square of the Brazilian porter (43^e).

The striker Lyonnais, it must be said, had perhaps just the profile to hurt this defense, yet devoid of a Fabian Delph catastrophic to go. His acceleration on the second goal left the hinge of Manchester on the buttocks, and we still retain this hellish wolf early in the game, where, on a Ferland Mendy caviar, a strike would have gladly replaced a left control lack. This is finally the lot of OL, specialist strokes one evening: if the team is labeled as such, it is that it is composed of men who fucking correspond to this characteristic. Hoping that the next one does not wait two months.

By Théo Denmat