The narrow victory of Bayern Munich on Tuesday evening against Real Madrid in its lair of the Bernabeu will not have taught us much that we did not already know – namely that, pushed by its public and its scorer Kylian Mbappé, Real is not quite finite, and that at the age of 40 Manuel Neuer is still as monstrous on his line. Oh yes, and also that the French team, not content with counting on the craziest offensive strike power on the planet, has a truly unique player, a Mozart with the ball at his feet, in the person of Michael Olise.
In charge of the Germans’ game from the first to the last second, the former Crystal Palace player once again dazzled the world with his speed, his technique and his nerve, his extraordinary vision of the game and his ability to eliminate whoever he wants when he wants. Notably poor Carreras, who danced the sirtaki on his left side throughout the evening.
If Olise could have obtained a penalty for a stroller from the Spaniard in the first period, he will still participate in his team’s victory after returning from the locker room, after a classy action where he fixed four players before serving Harry Kane on a board for the 2-0 goal (46th), signing his… 25th assist of the season, his seventh in the Champions League. No one has done better than him this season on the continent. Olise even has the luxury of surpassing Franck Ribéry and his 24 assists during the 2011-2012 season, sorry.
“He’s a different player”
Olise will not even be elected man of the match despite this masterclass, which says a lot about the mutant match of Neuer, author of numerous decisive saves, he, the forty-year-old, but his performance did not go unnoticed. On the CBS set, Thierry Henry fell under the spell: “He’s a different player. He sees the game in a way that few people can. He sees the game with his brain. He doesn’t look at the game with his eyes,” he said nicely, speechless at Olise.
Harry Kane also paid tribute to the French international at the Canal microphone after the match. “He was fantastic. He caused a lot of problems for the defenders, he had a lot of chances. He is largely responsible for the way we play. I would like to congratulate the way he is progressing, the way he trains, the way he performs. » Aware of having in our French ranks a player different from the others and who could be of great service to us this summer in the United States, we feared for a moment that Rüdiger would do his Rüdiger and hurt our nugget. But even that, he managed to avoid, which is not given to everyone.
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