Lacazette bid farewell to Lyon, and hopes to become the king of shooters in the last game, leaving regrets in his career

According to official news from the Lyon Club, the team captain French striker Lacazette will leave the team after the end of this season.

As a player produced by Lyon's own youth training, Lacazette has become the banner of this French Ligue 1 giant. Looking back at the career of the French striker, Lacazette has only played for Lyon and Arsenal. In 2003, 12-year-old Lacazette joined Lyon youth training and joined Lyon's first team in 2009. He played for Lyon's first team for eight years, with a total of 275 appearances and scored 129 goals. In the summer of 2017, Lacazette joined Arsenal for a high price of 53 million, playing in 206 games for Arsenal, scoring 71 goals and sending 36 assists. In the summer of 2022, Lacazette returned to Lyon from Arsenal in his free manner. Lacazette, who returned to his old club, continued his previous performance in the Ligue 1 field. Including the 17 goals this season, Lacazette has scored twice in double-digit goals for three consecutive seasons (in the 2022/23 season, Lacazette represented Lyon in 39 games in various competitions, contributing impressive data of 31 goals and 6 assists. In the 2023/24 season, Lacazette represented Lyon in 35 games in various competitions, contributing outstanding data of 22 goals and 4 assists).

So far, Lacazette has played in 390 games in various competitions for Lyon in his career, contributing 199 goals and 55 assists, ranking second in the history of Lyon's scorer list (second only to Benzema's 200 goals), and has scored as many as 254 goals directly.

In the last round of the Ligue 1 this season, Lyon's home game against Angers will be the last game that Lacazette will play for Lyon in his career. If this French striker can stage a good show of scoring twice in this farewell battle, he will surpass Benzema and become the recorder of the Lyon team.

But such a striker who is expected to become the historical scorer of Lyon, Lacazette has never been favored by the French national team. Looking back at Lacazette's career as a Gallic Rooster, the highest moment may be when he represented the French Olympic team in the Olympic men's football match last year as an overage player.

Lacazette has played 15 times for the French national team and scored 3 goals, but he has never participated in international competitions at the national team level. Looking back at Lacazette's national team career, he was called up for the first time in June 2013, and was only a fringe figure for the French team at that time. That season, Lacazette scored 22 goals in various competitions, but such data did not impress Deschamps and was eventually defeated in the 2014 Brazil World Cup.

Especially in the 2014/15 season, Lacazette won the Ligue 1 Golden Boot and Best Player Award with 27 goals in a single season, but Deschamps is still not interested in Lacazette. In the 2016 European Cup, Deschamps chose Gignac as Giroud's substitute when Benzema was removed from the list. Lacazette, who scored 21 goals in the league, eventually lost the election, which also caused a lot of controversy.

In the following days, Lacazette moved to the Premier League to join Arsenal. After coming to the Gunners, Lacazette scored one goal after another to replace Giroud and became the main player of the French team and Arsenal. Just when French fans believed that this time, Lacazette finally represented the French team in the Intercontinental Competition and officially appeared on the international stage, an unexpected injury caused the French striker to lose the French team's 2018 World Cup roster again. Everyone knows the story that the French team won the second Hercules Cup in team history. Since then, Lacazette has completely disappeared from the French team, which shined with stars. For such a striker, he did not represent the French team in the official intercontinental competition, which became the biggest regret of Lacazette's career.