Two out of three for the Lyonnais. After Juve last Wednesday in the first knockout round of the Champions League (1-0), it was Saint-Etienne who bit the dust this Sunday in Ligue 1 at Groupama Stadium (2-0). And OL took the time to savor, before concluding their triple challenge against PSG on Wednesday in the semi-finals of the Coupe de France. Because it was a derby. And because there was revenge to take.
Lopes: “We can afford to have fun at the end”
After the final whistle, the OL players therefore celebrated this victory in front of their supporters. “In a match like this, we can afford to burst out in joy at the end, explains the Lyon goalkeeper, Anthony Lopes. It is a derby, the most beautiful derby in France. It is normal. “celebrated well in the first leg. We celebrated it well in the return leg, with great communion with our supporters.”
Tousart: “We wanted to erase the first leg”
In October, when the two teams were suffering, the Greens won in their Cauldron (1-0), for the first match of Claude Puel … and the last of Sylvinho. Inevitably, the Lyonnais wanted to catch up at home. “We wanted to erase the first leg, even if it will never be erased, says Lucas Tousart, hero against Juve, who thought he had scored his second goal of the week before being deprived of it by the VAR. We had a difficult match there. We are taking our revenge. ” The Lyonnais will now do everything to celebrate a new prestigious victory Wednesday evening, against PSG.