After defeating Paris Saint Germain to win the French championship in the 2020-21 season, Lille failed to continue its glory. Lille only ranked 10th in the French championship in the 2021-22 season, but Lille’s performance rebounded in the 2022-23 season, they ended the season with the fifth place in the league.
Of course, for Lille, there is another thing to celebrate: Leny Yoro, a 17-year-old central defender, performed well, he is considered to be one of the best young defenders in the whole French League today. His amazing performance and relatively mature style remind people of Varane. Recently, he and Real Madrid, Liverpool, rumors spread among giants such as Paris and Bayern.
In the French league last season, joiro has already won more than 700 minutes of playing time. As Lille hopes to sprint to a higher ranking next season, joro is believed to play a more important role in the 2023-24 season.
Lenny Yoro was born in Saint Morris, Paris on November 13, 2005. When he was 6 years old, he joined the local club UJA Alfortville and began his football career. One year later, he went to the new city of asque.
After spending 5 years in Ask New Town, Jolo has made great progress in his ability here because of his excellent talent, at that time, Yoro became an almost unknown name in the French Scout Network. In the end, Lille won the battle for Yoro, and Yoro became a member of Lille’s youth training.
In Lille youth training, Yoro continued to make progress. On February 5, 2022, Yoro finally played the first team show against AC Amiens.
In this season, Yoro also joined the U18 Youth League with Lille and played for the team four times in this competition.
Joro ended the season in a very convincing way and finished his first performance against Nice on May 14, 2022, becoming the second youngest player in the history of Lille club. For a 16-year-old player, Yoro’s performance is amazing enough. When this season is over, Lille decided to give Yoro more opportunities in the 2022-23 season.
In September 2022, Yoro made his debut on behalf of Lille in the 2-1 defeat of Toulouse. At that time, he was only 16 years old and 308 days old, becoming the youngest defender in the history of French A, at the same time, it is also the fifth young starting player in the history of French Liga. The performance of Joro in the match is also remarkable, and it is soon considered to be the strongest among the defenders of the same age in France.
With a height of 1.9 meters, Yoro seems to have an ideal physique of a central defender. However, what is more important is that youluo also has the qualities that other excellent defenders should possess. For example, according to the data of the 2022-23 season, the success rate of Yoro’s passing is as high as 91%, which is an impressive data. His passing force looks very easy. After the ball is broken, yoro can quickly complete the connection between the next ball control and passing action, and his long pass can usually find his teammates accurately.
In addition, the success rate of Yoro’s confrontation last season was as high as 62%. For a newcomer who was only 17 years old and participated in France a for the first time, this figure is even more amazing. Besides the slender figure, yoro has good speed and flexibility. He likes to predict the passing or tape lines of the other party in advance and then block them. At the same time, Yoo also showed excellent ball control ability. According to the statistics, Yoo ranked in the top 6% of all the central defenders of France a in the last season in terms of the number of disk belts, good balance and sense of ball guarantee that he can become a more reassuring ball control point.
In terms of defense, Yoro can dedicate 2.11 steals every 90 minutes on average, ranking the top 4% of all central defenders in France. In terms of the number of passes intercepted, he also ranked 6% of all central defenders.. Even in the face of a flexible and fast opponent, Yoro’s stalking is quite effective. He can hardly see the problem of the tall defender turning slowly. On the contrary, he can often cut off the opponent’s foot ball first.
Lille was ranked 5th in France last season. This season, their goal is at least to enter the Champions League next season, which means that young players like Yoro will take more responsibilities. Now there are many calls for Joro to enter the regular starting line-up of Lille next season, which seems a bit risky, but Yoro does have the talent to match it.
For joro, it is very important to get a stable playing time in the top league. The rise of Joro reminds people of Varane. He had comprehensive qualities at such a young age, far exceeding the level of his peers in both physical, technical and mental levels, but now he needs to remain at the top level. At this stage, Lille directly makes Yoro a regular starter player with considerable risks, but it is also a gamble with great chances of success.
Yoro’s performance has aroused the interest of many elite scouts. Of course, it is impossible for any elite to provide him with enough playing time at present. The most important task of Yoro now is to try to complete the first complete French league season as a regular main force, which will detect whether he has the ability to maintain a high level in the long season, therefore, for joro, it is the most ideal choice to continue playing for at least 1-2 seasons in Lille.
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