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By Morgan Couturier
Always eagerly awaited, the derby against Saint-Étienne largely turned in favor of the Lyonnais who humiliated their opponents (5-0). In their face to face with the enemy of always, the supporters of the OL have not forgotten the political color of the new mayor of Lyon …
There won’t have been a game, or rather, a one-sided game. A demonstration even, otherwise called “manita” on the other side of the Pyrenees, so much OL will have eaten, crunched, a sworn enemy who finally had only the appearance, on this Sunday evening dated January 24, 2021.
Faced with the magnitude of the score (5-0), the date may have remained anecdotal as the humiliation was total, but on this magical evening when everything was successful, the Lyonnais will remember above all to have offered themselves the luxury not negligible to take the lead in the game of face-to-face. A first since 1956. Forty … five victories for Lyon, 44 for the Greens, reduced overnight, to the rank of sparring partner in this 122nd derby where the men of Rudy Garcia will have seemed quite simply untouchable and unplayable.
45 wins in 122 derbies, OL take control of the head-to-head game
Of course, the story could have been otherwise different, if the young Moueffek opened the scoring for the locals, from the 2e minute. And again, the Greens made no secret of it, they were taken for a ride, leaving the Lyon fans the pleasure of starting the week, with a smile on their face, filled with tasty memories.
Perhaps also, they will get up with the images still in mind, doubles of Marcelo (36e and 59e) and a Tino Kadewere, definitely good at getting adopted. And since such an evening, filled with magic, was undoubtedly to end on a last note of euphoria, Lyon will still be able to replay in a loop, this final moment of humiliation, drawn by the head of the unfortunate … Bouanga, own scorer (82e).
Lyon hate the Greens, as the Lyon fans at the Hôtel de Ville under the windows of Petit Grégory (Doucet) did not fail to remind Sunday afternoon.
Today, they can benefit from this success, OL are maintaining their title hopes. Paris and Lille remain within range of shots, when his opponent falls to a deplorable 16e place, at… 24 points from Lyon. A chasm, a ditch, in short, a gap class!