Lost 2-0. Looks tidy enough. Nice little Cruyff turn at one point and seemed confident on the ball. However, looked at fault for the second by not getting tight enough for the initial header before they scored from the rebound. Good that he’s getting games - sounds like they’re a club in disarray.
How did Lyon get so bad? Great for Jake, but the club instability not promising
He's starting again today. They seem to be playing a back four and he is beside Dejan Lovren.
They're leading 2-1 after 25 mins.
We have been well stocked at centre half and then two more emerge this season starting at Celtic and Lyon - albeit neither side what they once were.
3-2 now leading, squeaky bum time for O’Brien, hopefully they can win and build on it
Just conceded a 3rd, 3-3 with 7 minutes left. Disaster. Come on Lyon
Scores his first goal for Lyon which gives them their first league win of the season after 11 games.
Where's he at in the pecking order I wonder?
Lyon are having a shocking season - bottom of the league, having been Champions League semifinalists three years ago. Is he part of a bad squad? Or is he a genuine option even now? He might be the kind of player who should be in the squad instead of Omobamidele at the moment
Think if he remains starting between now and March he definitely comes into the conversation for a call up. Has only played five games for Lyon who are shocking atm and it's hard to say whether he'd be starting or not if Lyon weren't so poor this season.
Think McGuinness can feel a bit hard done by this window. Though not surprised we didn't see any new CBs called up when McNally didn't get one in June given the form he was in for Coventry.
Goal here - a classic Irish CB goal: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comm...ake_obrien_67/
Nice comment on him from a Lyon fan:
"He's been a huge surprise.
He's a Textor branded player (from Crystal Palace to Molenbeek, to us) and his personal recruit. Nobody understood why and we thought he would be sent immediately on loan to Molenbeek. So very negative a priori considering how Textor multi club bull**** is viewed, on top of his refusal to hire a SD to play FM in real life himself.
But that loan didn't happen, and Grosso gave him a chance (which he did to basically every single player of the squad since he arrived). He took that chance fully and since then has been one of the very few (if not the only) indisputable starter. Probably our best player since the start of the season.
Dominant in the air, agressive in duels, surprisingly fast despites his height, and decent with the ball."
He may have / probably did, foul the small player in front of him there but he got away with it and the goal counted ~ Nothing wrong with being lucky as Napoleon used to say !
Watched the Lyon vs Lille game and this sums him up well. He absolutely looked the part for the first half-hour until they got hit by a 1-2 combination in four minutes. You could possibly say he could have stopped the first goal as he momentarily fell for a trap, where he started to move towards a stationary ball carrier, only to see the ball released to a speeding Jonathan David - even then he almost managed to get back to challenge. For the rest of the game, he just looked comfortable overall. If he keeps this up, he has got to be given a shot by the new manager.Originally Posted by Philly
Another goal for him today away at Lens…..
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Bar Lacazette (3) no other player has more than one goal in the league.
Second goal of the game makes him joint top scorer in the league for Lyon.
At fault for the first goal, where he shinned an attempted backpass (most of their defence made a mess of things at some point, with skelly Alvero giving away a needless penalty and Lovren scoring an own-goal). But up front for setpieces, he was a constant threat with his height - I mean, he's 6'6", he's comfortable on the ball, he's fast and he's playing in a big 5 league alongside two World Cup finalists - what more do we want? Cap him ASAP.
Liked with Everton
https://www.footmercato.net/a4231130...-a-jake-obrien
Don't know how reliable this site is, but tuttomercato is little more than clickbaitAccording to our information, a Premier League team is thinking of him for the winter transfer window. This is Everton, who have already observed him. But the player feels very happy with Les Gones, we were told. Furthermore, OL are clearly not interested in the idea of ??letting go of a player who has found his place very quickly and who is already proving to be very valuable as the club plays to maintain its position.
(Note: article is in French)
Highlights from the lens-Lyon game. Two good finishes from O'Brien, but badly at fault for Lens' opener. Lyon really were the architects of their own downfall here
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