At OL Park,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Two remarkable moves in the open area to get rid of Bryan Okoh and Sinaly Diomande, then two clinical kicks. By scoring his first double (19th and 71st) on Saturday against Auxerre (3-2) since his arrival in Ligue 1 during the winter transfer window, Roman Yaremchuk brought OL closer to a return to the Champions League. The experienced Ukrainian center forward (30 years old) was able to break the Burgundian barrier, while attention was above all focused on the Moreira-Endrick tandem, brilliant last week against PSG (1-2).<\/p>\n The entire Lyon locker room was keen to congratulate the former Benfica and Olympiakos striker, hero of the day in the same way as Corentin Tolisso (a goal and an assist). \u201cHe does us good,\u201d the OL captain was quick to note, aware that this profile of a pure surface number 9 was lacking in the squad until February. We don’t cross enough, we get too carried away trying to make combinations… As the coach said, sometimes you just have to cross because Roman has qualities in the box. With his head and foot, he is decisive. \u00bb<\/p>\n Moussa Niakhat\u00e9 is even more enthusiastic: \u201cHe is a top attacker when he is well served. It took us a little time to understand his way of playing. He hurts opposing defenses a lot, he weighs on them. This is once again a success on the part of the recruitment unit.\u201d Despite three mixed first months, Roman Yaremchuk has 4 goals and 1 assist in 11 appearances with OL.<\/p>\n His main support Paulo Fonseca, who supported his recruitment on loan during the last transfer market, underlines the extent to which he is “decisive” in Lyon’s good series (three successes in a row in the middle of the final sprint), after his opening score with a header against Lorient (2-0) on April 12. Married to a Ukrainian and former coach of Shakhtar Donetsk (from 2016 to 2019), the Portuguese coach of OL immediately wanted to recall a heavy context to praise the performance of the day of his number 77.<\/p>\n \u201cRoman deserves it, especially since today there were major Russian attacks in Ukraine (the report shows eight deaths in the city of Dnipro), says Paulo Fonseca. We may forget what he is going through, it is not easy… Today, he knows that Ukraine has suffered again and he arrived with this mental strength. This is why he is a player who really deserves to experience such a special moment, with these two goals scored. \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>
Eight dead in Dnipro on Saturday<\/h2>\n