League 1: Lille still down

The Lille conceded, Saturday at home, a draw (1-1) against Nantes. It’s their sixth match without a victory in the championship.

Le Monde

“We can and we must surf this success”. On the eve of the match against FC Nantes in the French Football Championship, Saturday, November 27, Jocelyn Gourvennec, Coach Lille, had asked the stake of this 15th day of Ligue 1 for his players: “When we are capable to make a match as strong as Tuesday “against Salzburg in Champions League (victory 1-0),” We must show that we can reissue it “.

Las. Saturday at the end of the afternoon, Lille did not really succeed in “surfing”. In any case not long enough. Facing the Nantes, they conceded a draw (1-1), thus extending a series in progress: for the French champion in title, it is the sixth match without a victory in the national championship, the third draw of Affiliate.

Still, the North TEAM had taken the “Top of the Wave”: Burak Yilmaz had opened the score from the 9th minute of play, the Turkish, at the point of Penalty, at the reception of a pass By withdrawal from Jonathan Bamba’s opposing surface.

“It was a shit game”

But, the Lille have not managed to surf this advantage. And, as often in recent weeks, they have not been able to hold on the duration. Facing Paris (2-1), in Angers (1-1) or Monaco (2-2), they had conceded goals at the end of the game. Faced with the Nantes, they sold much faster.

In the 24th minute, the Nantes returned to the score: Ludovic Blas recovered the balloon in front of Tiago Djalo and took advantage of a slip of the Lille defender to arrive at 18 meters of the goal and draw from the left foot. After this equalization, the end of the first period will be dominated by the Nantes team, jostling his opponent.

Lille can feed on regret, because, in the second half, after having taken back and accentuated the pressure on their opponents, they got a penalty at the 77th minute. But the guardian of Nantes, Alban Lafont pushed Jonathan David’s shot.

“It was a shit game with a shitty lawn! We had to do better. We miss a penalty … We said that we had to find this efficiency. We did not find it tonight,” let go, at the end of the meeting, the midfielder Lille Benjamin André.

With this new draw, Lille remains at the 12th place in the classification of the Ligue 1, just behind his opponent of the day.

/Media reports.