Scorer of his 3rd goal of the season, Amine Gouiri is your Aiglon of the victory at Saint-Etienne (1-3). The forward finished ahead of Pierre Lees-Melou, who also scored, and the always precious Morgan Schneiderlin.

Gouiri, at his old neighbours

It was undoubtedly not the most difficult goal of his young career. There to pounce on the misunderstanding between Moulin and Sow, the former Lyon player knocked the ball into the empty goal (30').

Bon début de semaine à tous #OGCNice pic.twitter.com/MUlDLLoEXN

— OGC Nice (@ogcnice) October 19, 2020

It was something of a personal revenge, following a fine save made by the goalkeeper from a header a few minutes earlier. Selected at centre-forward in the Nice 3-5-2, with Rony Lopes in support (see the below diagram), Amine Gouiri again caught the eye of rouge et noir supporters, and 41% of them made him their Aiglon - Crédit Agricole of the match.

When the stats back up the tactics: here is the average position and the number of touches made by the Gym players at Geoffroy-Guichard.

PLM is up and running

The France Under-21s player finished ahead of the game's first scorer: Pierre Lees-Melou, who got 23% of the vote. Playing on midfield, PLM was the Aiglon to win the ball back most times (11). He put in a complete performance, featuring his first goal of the season (8') and the former Dijon player made it into the team of Round 7 selected by sports newspaper L'Equipe.

Ligue 1 : l'équipe type de la 7e journée

En balayant Lens dimanche soir dans le derby, le LOSC a pris la tête du Championnat, et place trois joueurs dans l'équipe type de la journée, en plus de son entraîneur https://t.co/ITyVbbvPN0 pic.twitter.com/dJxsRUHPtv

— L'ÉQUIPE (@lequipe) October 19, 2020

 

 

Schneiderin: the boss

Finally, Morgan Schneiderlin completed the podium (21% of the vote). Playing in defensive midfield, the former Premier League star was unstinting in his efforts, notably when Saint-Etienne enjoyed a strong spell in the second half. Having missed the previous game (a 2-1 win against Nantes), the man from Alsace made a remarked-upon return. That augurs well ahead of European football (Matchday 1 of the group stage of the Europa League on Thursday at Leverkusen, kick-off at 18:55).

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