Often panting, irrational, the derby is disconnected from the rest of the season, leaving statistics and other mathematical analyzes in the locker room. But Sunday night, at Geoffroy-Guichard, he was implacably logical, reminding, if necessary, that the two teams do not play in the same court.
Ol has two points of the leading duo
Fairer technically, more determined, more everything, in short, Lyon pocketed without batting an eyelid the 122e clash between the two best enemies of French football (0-5) – the same score as in November 2015 -, taking the advantage in the history of confrontations for the first time since 1957 (45 wins, 33 draws, 44 losses). Above all, the Gones glue back to two points from the leading duo composed of PSG and Lille, after the defeat at home against Metz (0-1) a week ago which finally looked like a hitch in a season where all dreams are allowed.
OL score four times from set pieces
In the Loire, OL, suffocated sick Stéphanois, deprived of ten players (seven Covid positive, three injured) and decimated in defense (Debuchy, Moukoudi, Retsos). If the men of Rudi Garcia made the play, they found the loophole on four set pieces. First on a corner by Kadewere (0-1, 16e ), already a double scorer in the first leg, then by two “copy paste” goals from Marcelo, heading a free kick from Dubois (0-2, 36e ; 0-3, 59e ), before Bouanga deceived his own goalkeeper on a free kick from Depay (0-5, 82e ). Meanwhile, the Zimbabwean has offered himself a brace, (0-4, 68th), plunging the Ligériens a little more into the crisis.
However, the physiognomy of this match could have been quite different if Moueffek had put his enormous opportunity to the bottom (1re ). But the Greens, already diminished, posted too many shortcomings that they were unable to compensate with the grinta of young derby-fed young players lined up at kick-off (Moueffek, Gourna, Gabard, Abi). Nordin touched wood (56e ) but De Sciglio’s potato (23rd) suffered the same fate, when Moulin was several times decisive (4e, 5e, 33e, 83e ).
There is no photo
In short, there was no photo and Claude Puel’s men are more than ever in danger. Sixteenth with four points ahead of the play-off, Dijon, and 19e, Nîmes, Sainté have won only one of their last eighteen games (seven draws, ten losses) and will have to fight to the end to keep them going. Before plunging into the trip to Nice in a week’s time, the Greens will first have to digest the slap in the face.
The next few days in L’Étrat are likely to be hectic while in the Rhône, the lights are green.