Exceptional guest of After Foot on RMC this Tuesday, Pierre Sage discussed the case of Rayan Cherki, a gem from Olympique Lyonnais in search of consistency. The Gones coach assured that he was very easy to manage, but that he still had many areas for improvement.
“Not difficult to deal with at all.” Guest of After Foot on RMC this Tuesday, Olympique Lyonnais coach Pierre Sage did not at all overwhelm Rayan Cherki, a young local talent who is still struggling to find a place as a regular starter at OL. The coach explains that he has no problem in his management but lists a certain number of points that Cherki can improve.
“Cherki? He’s not at all difficult to manage,” assures Pierre Sage, when asked about the fact that his number 18 does not start in every match. “This situation relates to how he approaches matches. He is a player who is exceptional in his ability to hurt opponents but who can put the team in difficulty in his way of defending or being stable in a match .”
“The idea is for the series to be as long as possible”
“When we have to reverse a situation, push without calculating anything, he is a player who can really do what is necessary and provide what the team needs,” explains the Lyon coach. “His next step is to be able to have a performance which stabilizes over the duration of the match and therefore which responds to all moments of the match. In the duration of the match and the matches.”
“For me that’s the challenge today, he has three or four good performances, so each following match is a big meeting for him and the idea is for the series to be as long as possible. J I would have the tolerance to say that he might miss one from time to time, but the idea is that he does it again.”
Pierre Sage’s advice for Rayan Cherki
Pierre Sage believes that Rayan Cherk has “progressed a lot in the collective and offensive side”: “What determines his good performance is the moment when he takes action. If he takes action before having received the ball, it hurts the opponent very, very much, but conversely when he receives the ball and he is stopped, the action takes place after receiving the ball… The idea is is to understand what makes the difference in your game and what these details are: faster in facing the game, faster in taking action, even stopping the ball and throwing something towards the opponent. “
Looking back on his return to the group, while Rayan Cherki was in the loft at the start of the season before having extended his contract, Pierre Sage was asked to give his version of the facts: “It really happened like that ( a brutal reversal of the situation, Editor’s note). With a moral obligation to ask him if he really chose to stay and under what conditions he was going to do so. For the moment, he responds favorably to his commitment and it will have to last. “
