[ANALYSE - EDF] Michael OLISE peut-il vraiment SUCCÉDER à Antoine GRIEZMANN chez les BLEUS ? 🎯

Hi everyone and welcome to this new video. The French team has made its debut in the World Cup 2026 qualifiers with a 2-0 victory in Ukraine. And one player has particularly shone offensively, this player is Michael Olizé, who remains on a rather prolific year in blue since he has scored 3 goals and delivered a decisive pass. A little less than a year after the announcement of Antoine Griezmann's international retirement, did the Blues find their successor in the person of Bayern Munich's Elie? That's the question we're going to try to answer today by coming back to Olizé's last performances under the blue jersey. But before continuing this video, a little message. If you like what I do and want to support this channel, you can now become a member. This will give you access to exclusive content, as well as more direct exchanges to decide, perhaps, the next content, the next analysis and the next clubs that will be divided into videos. To do this, nothing easier, just click on the button to join just below this video. And thank you in advance to those who take the step. And we're going to start right away by coming back to the victory against Ukraine and see that Olizé, according to Fotmob, so it's Opta and so it's only statistics that allow us to designate our players. Olizé comes out with the best score of the match. And why does he come out with the best score of the match? It's quite simple, the blues have created 16 shots in total. And Olizé is at the last pass on 3 of them, 3 chances created, and he's at the shot on 4 of them. That means he's almost on half the blue chances in this match. With, as you can see, 2 shots framed and 2 shots off the surface and not framed. What is also interesting is that Olizé managed to transform the 0.43 expected goals into 1.40 expected shots. What does that mean? It means that when you take these 2 shots framed in the repair surface, you see that the first on his goal at the 10th minute, he is at 0.26xg and thanks to the quality of his shot, the way he placed it, the speed at which it went, he transformed it into 0.85xg framed. What does that mean? It means that of 26% chance of scoring thanks to the shot position, he went to 85% chance of scoring thanks to the quality of his finish. And a little later, at the 18th, he almost did the same, on a shot at 13% chance of scoring, he transformed it into a shot at 55% chance of scoring and it took a nice stop by Troubine to prevent the Bavarian from scoring a double. And his goal, we're going to look at it in pallets since it's worth the detour, since at the start of the action, it was finally a long 1-2 between Olizé and Barkola since Olizé at the start of the action, as you can see here, he went back down to a low position, we are on a free kick, the Ukrainians are back in their 4-4-2, Olizé goes back down and he's going to open the game. A long ball for Bradley Barkola here. And behind, it's a change of pace, while the 4-4-2 defense of Ukraine is receding, Olizé is going to advance the receding of the Ukrainian offensives. Barkola is in fixation, you have the 4-4-2 defense, and who arrives before everyone at the entrance of the surface? It's Michael Olizé here, who is perfectly served. The Ukrainian is late, here the number 10. On paper, I think it was number 8. And Olizé can conclude with this action, which goes to 85% chance of scoring, thanks to his finish. We can see it even better on this shot taken behind the Ukrainian goal. We have Olizé's long ball, and behind, you can see it, he took the lead on the first Ukrainian line. You have the two defense centers, you have the right center of Ukraine, and there you have the 10 of Ukraine, which is focused on Chouameni, who will not change priority, who will stay focused, and who will stay straight in his line, and who is finally overtaken by Olizé, who will perfectly show himself in the open area. And we will see that the detection of the areas where to go, Olizé is very strong for that, it will be a theme later. There, he makes himself perfectly available here, and he will receive Barkola's ball, and he can conclude quietly. This is also an opportunity to mention Barkola's decisive pass, because there, in his duel with Konoplya, there are very interesting things. There, you see, he takes the info, Konoplya looks at him and focuses on the ball, and what Barkola will do is that he will pretend to make his famous dribble, where he pushes the ball with the inside to go to the side, and in fact, it is this feint that will completely embark Konoplya, you see, while Barkola stops immediately on his foot, and at the same time manages to slide it perfectly here with his right foot, in one touch, and this is what allows Olizé to conclude. So, against Ukraine, beyond his goal, Olizé has occupied an axial position, alongside Bappé, and he has often permuted with Désiré Doué, who evolved on the side, and then with Ousmane Dembélé too, and what is to be noted in him is that when he becomes available in the heart of the game, he is someone who knows how to place himself, who knows how to stand out to receive the ball, and give himself a lead in what he will do next, we will see it here with a cloud. First, against Croatia, where you see Olizé at the heart of the game with Kovacic nearby, he goes to the ball, he asks for a support, it makes Kovacic come out a little bit, and suddenly it will free up space in the back, space in which Michael Olizé will immediately go, he becomes available, he waits for the pass to arrive, and inevitably, by doing this, Kovacic must change his rhythm to prevent this pass inside, and what happens? As soon as Kovacic makes this little acceleration to close the pass line and prevent Olizé from touching, Olizé immediately takes him on the other foot, he changes position, and he comes to ask for the ball in this interval, interval in which he is served, and then, it's his technical quality, he turns around, he faces the game, there he can't unfortunately chain in a touch because you have Koundé, I think here, who is in an offside position, so what is he going to do? He will turn to the heart of the game and look for a solution, he protects his ball from Kovacic, he finds himself in front of Modric, he embarks in a double contact, and he manages to find Mbappé despite a huge density of players, he manages to resist the pressure and finds Mbappé. Another sequence here, still facing Croatia, which will allow us to examine what is called the box, if you know Didier's movie, Olizé here is perfectly positioned in what is called the box, that is to say this area in the back of the two midfielders, with the two centrals, it forms a box, and when you are in the middle of the box, you are marked, it's as simple as that, and you see, he manages to stay in the box to be perfectly marked, receive this ball, the shot is good, it allows him to chain behind, and here again, the box shrinks, for the moment Olizé is out of it, but he will go back to it again to receive Dembélé's pass, and then he will try to chain with this external control on the left to try to surprise the defender and take him by speed, and it does not go very far from a penalty which is ultimately not reported by the referee. We continue, this time we are on the match against Ukraine, and what will interest us is Olizé's change of pace in his marking, that is to say that at the start of the action, you see, he is here, the French will go to the right side, we touched Koundé, the Ukrainians slide, and what will make the difference with Olizé, is that when the French will initiate their reversal, Olizé will move much faster than the opponent's block. Koundé finds Manukone, this player, Ukrainian side, probably anticipates the pass to the defender, here on the left, so he goes out a little higher, it frees up a huge space, a big box if you want, here, a huge box, and it is in this box that Olizé will get the ball back. You see, the Ukrainians are stopped in the middle of the field, because there is also this threat of an axial pass. So, Ukrainian side, we are wary, we close the axis, but we will be surprised by Olizé, who comes to ask for the ball in this interval. The opportunity to note Manukone's superb pass, we saw the good work of Barcola on the goal, here we see Manukone's superb pass. Olizé serves, and behind, we do not waste time, there is Barcola who starts, there is Digne who rolls on the wing, and behind, we will lead the action until the last 30 meters, or at the finish, we find Olizé in the same position that he was during his goal, and there, this time, it is in the counter-pressing, that he manages to get the ball back, and to turn around for his second shot of the match, this time pushed back by Troubine. And finally, last sequence of Olizé in the box, here, the German box, this time, the Berghain, no doubt, here it is served, and again, the pass. And there, also, good analysis of the situation by Olizé, he sees that the depth is covered by the German defender, he also sees that Rabiot makes a call that will embark opponents, so where is the space, if you have a defender who goes there, if you have a Frenchman who goes there, and who embarks opponents, the space will be behind, he takes the counter-foot of what his opponents do, we saw it earlier with Ovasic, again, he takes the counter-foot, I think it's Kimmich, who is in this position, and who runs towards his goal, and suddenly, taking the counter-foot, he is completely alone, a lower position, and in this lower position, he can talk about the quality of his foot, he could reverse Verdine, but there, he will try a little ball in the surface, to Bappé, little ball controlled by Bappé, and so, an entry in the additional surface, for this dear Michael Olizé. And since I'm talking about entering the surface, by the pass, it's the opportunity to highlight this statistic, in which Michael Olizé comes out very, very strong, since when you go to see his scouting report, you see it here, pass into penalty area, he is in the top 1% of the best players in this field, with 3.96 passes per 90 minutes in the penalty area, and you notice that, in fact, it's simply the best among the players taken into account on FBLF, no one does better than him, the average among offensive midfielders is 1.50, and to compare, for example, with Désiré Doué, who is a player, as you can see here, who is in the top 13%, so already a player not far from the elite in this field, look at the gap between Désiré Doué, who is at 2.16, and Olizé at 3.96, so we're dealing with a player who is far, far above. It can also be seen when I look for Désiré Doué's report here, it's his report on last season with Bayern Munich, and you notice where he is in terms of deep completion, so these are the passes that are made, let's say, almost in the danger zone, to access the danger zone, he is in the top 0.2% of the players who do the most, and you can see it here, in the top 0.6% in terms of passes in the repair area. So there, the statistics of Wildscout obviously cut those of Opta and FBRF, you note, by the way, his rating last season, he deserved the 11th of the year, a note of 78.4 taking into account the finish, it was quite simply the best offensive midfield of the Bundesliga last season, in front of, in particular, Florian Wirth, who left on Liverpool's side, you see his creation stages, his expected assists, his digs, his goals, in short, on the statistical level, there was absolutely nothing to say, he largely justified his very, very big transfer. For fun, we're going to do a few additional actions, with entrances in the allowed area by Michael Ollisé's passes. First example here, in front of Spain, Ollisé is waiting for the ball at the entrance of the repair area, he spreads out towards Dembélé, he's going to show up again in the box between the Spanish midfield and defense, and there, once he's on the surface, he takes his time, he's not in a hurry, he protects his ball, and he's waiting for the 19th of the year, French, whose name I completely lost, and it ends on a very dangerous center, that Dembélé is not very far from pushing at the back of the net. Another sequence here, in front of Ukraine, where we also see Ollisé's ability to reduce the number of ball touches, he receives the ball, one additional touch, and he can shoot, all thanks to what? Thanks to information takes before the ball arrives, the first info take on what's happening, he sees the distance, no doubt, between Zabarni and the 2nd midfielder, and so, an area certainly attackable for Mbappé, he makes his first touch, so that he can then follow up with his left foot on the 2nd, no superfluous touches, 2 ball touches to launch Mbappé, and there Mbappé manages to wrap around his defender, but he can't follow up perfectly, and the Ukrainian defense with Zabarni this time manages to come back. Another sequence here, still in front of Ukraine, Ollisé who first asks for the depth, and there, the same, he manages to identify very quickly the situation, Mbappé's call, many players would have given the ball maybe in Mbappé's feet here, what does Ollisé do? He goes for the depth, he anticipates Mbappé's shot in the back of the defense, and instead of giving it in the feet, he gives it in the space, and it will be the best decision possible, and there Mbappé is again 1 on 1, and he gets caught by the defense again. This ability of Ollisé to have the next shot, we will illustrate it with another sequence here, it happens, we are a little lower on the field, the ball is in Konaté's feet, you see Ollisé positioned in the box, again between the Ukrainian lines, he takes off to ask, and there, to see the next shot, what is it? It is to be able to pass here in a touch to Chouamini, who is alone between the lines, he also in another box here, the pass, the perfect pass, and behind, Chouamini can go for the goal, and thus create the shift to the right side, and end up in the area where Ollisé is waiting for the ball, and that will certainly be something that will be taken into account by the opponents of the French team in the next weeks, the next months, even the next World Cup, it is that this area, at the entrance of the surface, it is Ollisé's area, it is the dangerous area, obviously, for the opponents, except that this time it is not Ollisé who takes it back, it is Chouamini, and unfortunately, it goes next to the goals. So we have mentioned a lot of situations with shots inside Ollisé, but we are dealing with a player, as I said, who can permute, who can go to the right, to play alone or to combine, and it is this ability too, from the concentrated areas, to create, either with his left foot, either by going into percussion, or by combining, which brings a variety welcome to a side of the French team which has long been the weak side during the last seasons. First example here of the great classic, he receives the ball on the side, he goes in fixation, Koundé, his side, doubles, and there, what happens? With his ball driving, left outside, he enters inside, he finds himself in an ideal position to try his luck, he could also maybe shift, Bappé at the entrance of the surface, it could end up on the left, but there he tries his luck, he put a lot of them like that, and it does not go so far from the goals of Troubine on it. Another sequence, here, here it is again on the right side, with Desiré who took the area inside, we see it at the bottom of the screen, raise your arm, the ball comes to him, and there again small fixation in front of Zinchenko, small touch from the outside of the left, to chain right away in the same movement, it's not perfectly given, this time it's too long for Mbappé, nevertheless, there is this ability to get in position very quickly to chain, we saw it earlier, with his pass in depth of the left foot, with a touch to get in position, and the second to chain very quickly, and the last point, it will be his ability to combine with his partners on the side, you see Koundé, you see Doué, you see Olizé, who this time is inside, Olizé goes to the ball, in a touch from the outside of the left to Doué, who gives him from the outside of the right, he can go into fixation, and deliver to the opposite, they fixed on one side, it will end up on the opposite, you see that there, there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Ukrainian players, who are in this area, for 3 Ukrainians on the other side, and 4 French, even if we know that Chouamini will not participate on this sequence, and there, you have the projection of Manucone inside, but can't chain, and so it ends on a shot from Bappé, while on the opposite, if we had maybe finished on the left, it would have ended better for the French. So, after this little round, rather praiseworthy, can we, from today, consider that Michael Olizé is the successor of Antoine Griezmann ? In reality, the answer to this question is very simple, no. But not a no that question the qualities of the player, but simply the fact that he hasn't had, at the moment, big meetings. However, Griezmann built a big part of his career on this type of meetings, the final phases with the French team, the semi-final, for example, of the Euro 2016 against Germany, and so on. And this is, now, what we will expect from Michael Olizé, it will be his ability to raise the level in this kind of meetings, his ability also, maybe, to hurt himself in some moments, to have a certain sense of sacrifice, like Griezmann had when it was necessary to come back and help in the middle of the field, during the weak times, in short, to have this little thing in addition that allows a player to make the very big meetings. But today, if Olizé hasn't done it yet, it's simply that he hasn't known it yet. Let's take the example of the Champions League, at 23 years old, Michael Olizé only has 14 matches of the Champions League on his calendar, it was the last season with Bayern Munich, and finally, the only big meeting of the Champions League that he had, it was the quarter-finals against Inter Milan, quarter-finals during which he remained mute, even if he could have delivered one or two decisive passes. But there is a little thing that makes you want to see more, it's the individual score of Michael Olizé during his only big international competition played with the French team. Big international competition, I exaggerate a little bit, but he was at the Olympics, for those who would have forgotten it, G2 2024 in Paris, the French team of Thierry Henry reached the final, 5 lines against Spain, and Michael Olizé was one of the technical leaders of this team, disputing all the meetings, and above all showing himself decisive during all the matches where he was titled, you see it, against the United States, a goal, a pass, against Guinea, a decisive pass, against New Zealand, he entered the game at the end of the game, against Argentina, decisive passer, against Egypt, goalkeeper and passer, and against Spain, in the final, decisive passer. And after having made this little reminder, we can only hope one thing, it is that the World Cup 2026 takes place in the same way for him, and for the Blancs.