Alex Lacazette is one of those players that has actually been around for some time but is only getting the recognition he deserves now. It’s easy to see why he’s gone unnoticed, having started off his Lyon career in 2003 as a youngster up until 2013 he was generally not involved in first team football due to his injury problems.
Four years on from then he has managed to put himself among the elite strikers in football with an electrifying record of almost a goal every game. Let’s take a look at how the Lyon man has become a sensation for his hometown club.
Style of play
Despite being 5’9 and just over 70 kilos, Lacazette is a bit of powerhouse in his style of play. The little Frenchman is what every manager wants in a striker in terms of his knack for scoring goals. He is a traditional number nine; the type of player there is becoming less of over time, a fox in the box with the nous to be in the right place at the right time, a similar type of intelligence to Ruud Van Nistelrooy with his movement in the six-yard-box.
Having scored 84% of his goals last season inside the penalty area, it’s a stat you won’t see with many strikers but his ability to link up play is what fascinates most potential suitors.
The France striker provides his team with a lot more than goals, which sounds cliché but his hunger to press defenders and cause problems in attacking areas without the ball is what strikers in the modern game are asked to do but few can deliver. Along with his hard work in the final third off the ball, he often delivers passes into areas of danger for the opposition.
Lacazette is number nine with the awareness of a number 10, which is rare for a striker to have both skillsets in his game. His pressing game is superbly well timed, once he has the ball he can finish with both feet or play the right pass to a teammate and to top it off, if the ball lands anywhere in the penalty area, it’s almost a guarantee he will be there to finish it off.
Some may argue that he is the perfect striker while others are still talking down his goal scoring record by suggesting he has scored a strong percentage of his goals from the penalty spot (13 out of his 31 goals last season were penalties).
Who is signing him
Everybody wants him – there is no hiding away from that but unfortunately for Lacazette, he seems to be every clubs plan B with Kylian Mbappe, Alvaro Morata and Romelu Lukaku available, the Lyon forward has taken a backseat.
Liverpool and Arsenal are the two clubs that are more closely linked than others with Arsene Wenger’s side rumoured to have had a £43m bid rejected.
It will be an interesting summer to say the least for the France striker but I think he will end up in the Premier League.
Fun Fact
Earlier this year Alex Lacazette told local newspapers in Lyon that he doesn’t like the weather they have on match days, which was somehow turned around on him claiming he had said he doesn’t like Lyon anymore and has requested a move away.
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