Un-be-lie-va-ble. I must have tried a zillion times to digest the news during the week, I still can’t believe it:
THE INFIRMARY IS EMPTY .
No kidding. No hallucination either. Claude Puel announced it in thursday’s press conference, and I’m positive he was absolutely, totally serious. (I mean, it’s Puel. I know this master of fun is always ready to tell a joke or two, but on this occasion he looked really serious).
The second hot piece of news -we already discussed it in the last days here- is that Makoun is now at Aston Villa where he had a medical and signed. La Toule had better hurry up his return to form, as well as Gourcuff.
Talking about Gourcuff, this is Gourcuff day today. On my left, Christian, the father, a strong character who’s been coaching Lorient for ages and is widely regarded as one of the guardians of football aesthetics; and on my right, Yoann, the son, who will start tonight in what will be his first game since early November, because of injuries and gastro-enteritis (it may also be a Maldini allergy, from which also I suffer). On one side, the father’s team is “only” twelfth in the championnat, despite a nice weapon called Gameiro; on the other, the son was the “hot” transfer of the summer who so far failed to exploit all the potential most of us seem to think he has. More relaxed now according to Puel, the collective-minded midfielder will certainly want to give all for his mates to keep going with Lyon’s current unbeaten run.
So they will both have extra motivation, and that should make for a nice game to watch, hopefully.
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The Lyonnais gang : Lloris – Réveillère, Diakhaté, Lovren, Cissokho – Gourcuff, Toulalan(cap), Källström, Bastos, Gomis, Lisandro.
The Lorientais : Audard(cap) – Sosa, Bourillon, Ecuele Manga, Morel – Amalfitano, Romao, Mvuemba, Diarra – Gameiro, Kitambala.
Allez les Lyonnais!