PARIS - No one embodies Lyons ambitious rebuilding project more than homegrown striker Alexandre Lacazette. Marcus Allen Jersey .The 23-year-old France international has taken the French league by storm, scoring 17 goals in a stunning first half to the season that saw the seven-time champions climb to second place in the standings.Lacazettes technical skills have not gone unnoticed, with the former Under-19 European champions prowess prompting interest from big European clubs such as Manchester City and Arsenal.Although a premature departure overseas looks possible, Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas — the man who oversaw the clubs rise to the summit of French football in the 2000s — has told the fans he wont sell his rising star.We have invested more than 400 million euros ($474 million) in a new stadium, Aulas said. Selling our best players, who could help us play the Champions League in this stadium, would be the negation of our strategy, said Aulas, whose starting XI includes eight homegrown players.Lacazette, who has been nurtured Lyon since he was 10, has blossomed this season alongside a bunch of locally groomed talents such as Nabil Fekir, Anthony Lopes or Maxime Gonalons.The system was put in place a while ago, but the economic context may mean some people have to leave, Lacazette said. If were no longer all together, we certainly wont have the same collective strength. As for me, if the club can continue to allow me to improve, why shouldnt I stay?Aulass wise financial management is paying off, with his team boasting the leagues best attacking record and sitting one point above Paris Saint-Germain ahead of Sundays reception of Toulouse.Only Marseille, which tops the standings two points clear of Hubert Fourniers side, has fared better. Following its shock elimination in the French Cup by fourth-tier Grenoble, Marseille visits Montpellier on Friday and PSG travels to struggling Bastia on Saturday.Lyons new stadium is expected to be ready in 2016, and Gonalons is hopeful the new crop of players will have matured by this time.The young lads still have a lot to learn, the world of professional football isnt easy, the midfielder said. But Ive always said that if the club is capable of holding on to all the young players, I think that in two or three years well have a really formidable team, because we have quality players and good people.Gonalons, who joined the club when he was 11, is praising the club academys staff for their work in developing a winning culture that compensates for the lack of money.The coaches are all former Lyon players, he said. Winning is very important here. You only need to see the president to know that, and its this mentality that has enabled Lyon to reach such a high level. 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The starting pitching in this American League Championship Series has been brilliant, the efforts of Sanchez and Lester and Scherzer we thought would be hard to top. Yet, there was Lackey and Verlander duking it out, pitch for pitch, and not even a 17-minute power outage delay in the middle of the second inning could slow them down. Verlander whipped through the Red Sox with an eight-pitch first inning, walked David Ortiz in a grueling at-bat to start the second but then struck out the side. Then, he struck out the side in the third. Six consecutive strikeouts and after five innings, Boston had a measly infield single from Jonny Gomes to account for its offence. Lackey, the forgotten man in this duel, was equal to the task. He stranded two Tigers in the first and went on a stretch of 10 straight retired, which included a span of four straight strikeouts in the second and third innings. Those two first inning singles would be all Lackey would allow until the fifth, when Jhonny Peralta led off with a double. Hed get to third with one out but Lackey, true to form in this series, got a big strikeout of Omar Infante before getting Andy Dirks to ground out. Inning over, potential crisis (a run against) averted. The games lone mistake came with one out in the top of the seventh. Verlander, at that point working on a two-hitter, left a 3-2 fastball in Mike Napolis wheelhouse. Napoli, struggling to a 2-for-24 (.083) playoffs at the time, belted the pitch over the left centerfield fence. "I knew he wasnt seeing the fastball that great," said Verlander. "I decided to challenge him and thats, I made a little bit of a mistake. It was a little bit up and over the middle. You have to give him credit." The Napoli home run would be all the Red SSox could get. Marcus Allen Womens Jersey. It would be all the Red Sox would need. Lackey was pulled after 6 2/3 innings of scoreless baseball. He didnt like manager John Farrells decision and made it clear as he gave his skipper the ball before departing. Afterward, Farrell didnt feel hed been shown up. "You never want a pitcher to come out of the game," said Farrell. "If something is made of that, we dont want John to change who he is as a person and certainly who he is as a competitor." "Its definitely probably the biggest game Ive pitched (for Boston,)" said Lackey. "And probably a pretty big one, I guess." Through three games, two of which have finished with 1-0 scores (each team has won one of those), the Red Sox and Tigers have combined to allow eight earned runs in 39 2/3 innings for a 1.82 ERA. Of the 159 outs recorded in the series, 53 have been via the strikeout, exactly one-third. Imagine how the numbers would look if Buchholz hadnt hit a wall in Game 2. Individually, the numbers break down like this: Tigers starters: 21IP, 2ER (0.86 ERA), 6H, 9BB, 35K, 1HR, 0.714 WHIP. Red Sox starters: 18.2IP, 6ER (2.89), 18H, 1BB, 18K, 2HR, 1.018 WHIP. Just for fun, eliminating Buchholzs sixth inning in Game 2 turns the line into this: 18IP, 2ER (1.00 ERA), 13H, 1BB, 18K, 0HR, 0.778 WHIP. Including the National League Championship Series, each of Verlander, Lester, Clayton Kershaw, Zach Greinke and Adam Wainwright has taken a loss despite pitching at least six innings. In that group, only Wainwright has allowed as many as two earned runs in his start. The Tigers also lost Scherzers start (seven innings, one earned run) but he wasnt tagged with the loss. Its happened to all of those great - not good but great - pitchers in the last 96 hours. This, as the Cardinals get great efforts from Joe Kelly and Michael Wacha, the Dodgers from Hyun-Jin Ryu, the Red Sox from the veteran Lackey and the Tigers from Sanchez. These playoffs are about pitching. Brilliant pitching. ' ' '