what first eleven for Rudi Garcia?

This is a special first that awaits Rudi Garcia at Groupama Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Lyon fans risk to heckle him, as much because of the disappointment of the choice of this coach for the offensive media outlets of the latter against OL when he officiated at the OM. However, as he explained during his presentation conference, it is the results that will dictate the atmosphere of the next weeks around the beginning of the mandate of the French technician. Starting with a home win against an opponent at the bottom of the table, Dijon, would be strongly advised. But with which team?

The international truce did some damage, starting with Memphis Depay, thighed with the Netherlands, and probably forfeit. This is also the case of Leo Dubois, who had given up the French team at the last rally. Bertrand Traore was also touched, while Jason Denayer, staying in Lyon, has just returned to collective training. Rudi Garcia will have to be attentive to the physical condition of all his internationals to compose his eleven. In what form ?

4-3-3 as evidence?

This will be the first lesson from OL-Dijon: the tactical scheme chosen by Garcia. While Sylvinho had favored the 4-3-3 before switching to 5-3-2 following bad results, the French coach will he immediately decide with the choices of his predecessor? For his arrival on the bench of the OM in 2016, he played the card of the defensive security to challenge the PSG by way of introduction. It had worked (0-0 on the Park's lawn). Then he had switched to a 4-3-3 that he will retain almost until the end of the season, even with the arrival of Dimitri Payet winter transfer window.

It is only during the following exercise that he will gradually switch to a 4-2-3-1, with Thauvin and Ocampos on the wings and Payet in number 10. The alternation will however exist with the 4-3- 3, depending on the absences and the profile of the opponent. More generally, Garcia has, over the course of his career, often used these two tactical systems, with however a clear preference on the 4-3-3. Since this was the pattern initially chosen for this season at OL and since the probable absence of Depay avoids a reflection on its positioning, we can safely imagine that this option will be retained by Rudi Garcia for his first match on the Lyonnais bench.