The French marksman quit Celtic last August after two goal-laden seasons in Glasgow.
Celtic fans might have been forgiven for cracking a smile over Moussa Dembele’s initial struggles at Lyon.
Dembele left Celtic to join the Ligue 1 outfit in a £19.7 million deal toward the end of last summer’s transfer window, and originally found it difficult in his homeland.
The 22-year-old netted only six times during the first half of this season which, for a striker who fetched the amount he did, isn’t a fantastic return.
But the former Hoops hitman is slowly but surely turning into a different animal.
Dembele has started 16 times for Lyon this calendar year and has struck 13 times from those games, in addition to grabbing three assists.
He scored in Sunday’s 3-0 demolition away to Marseille and it looks like he is finding his feet in a serious way.
There are always question marks when a striker rips up the Scottish Premiership in terms of goals, by virtue of the overall standard, but it seems like Dembele is a problem in stronger divisions too.
At his age, it isn’t unlikely that the former Fulham gem returns to the Premier League one day and replicates what he did in Scotland and is currently doing in France.
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