At the end of a low-level meeting, the OL chained a second success in a championship (1-0) thanks to a goal on penalty of Moussa Dembele. With this seventh consecutive lapel, the Greens remain, they, good last ranking.
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The Lyonnais will say that the essential thing is to win the derby, and they will surely have reason. But the success narrow, acquired Friday, January 21 against the rival Saint-Etienne (1-0) for the opening of the 22 e day of Ligue 1, will not hide the great difficulties that crosses, In the game, OL.
Stéphanois side, things are clearer: at sixteen matches of the end, the league 2 gets closer to high speed. The Greens have chained a seventh setback in a championship, and continue to drag himself to the last place of the ranking. This story will have consistently hoped for either of the two teams.
On the contrary, even for the winners, Lyon, given their inability to technically control a meeting that they should have made it easier. With this second consecutive victory after that obtained just as hardly in Troyes on a penalty (1-0), on January 16, the OL does not rise, provisionally, only on the tenth in six lengths of Marseille (3 e ).
A content without ambition
In front of 5,000 spectators in a stage of 60 000 places because of the gauges imposed by the state and the health crisis, it was Moussa Dembélé who gave the advantage to the Lyonnais by transforming a penalty granted logically for a fault committed on itself by Timothy Kolodziejczak (1-0, 15 e ).
But against Stéphanois adopting an ultra-defensive game plan that the many absent in his workforce impose, Olympique Lyonnais delivered a match without ambition. Dembélé has been totally isolated on tip and weaned balloons before being replaced at the time of game by Tino Kadewere, and the players supposed to lead the game, Houssem Aouar and Lucas Package, have been quite disappointing.
So, the OL gave the opportunity to the ASSE to budge and even return to the game on a resumption of Mahdi Camara’s head diverted by Anthony Lopes shortly before half-time. Coach Stephanois Pascal Dupraz felt the feverishness of the Lyonnais, and attempted to provoke a spark with the entries of Bakary Sako, Jean-Philippe Krasso and Sada Thioub, three attackers who were added to Arnaud Nordin. Coach Lyonnais fixed on his fate at the end of February
Without success, for lack of enough talent to create opportunities and reverse the course of things even though the Greens have dominated the second period. Their custodian Paul Bernardoni had to intervene on an attempt at Kadewere (74 e ) while the OL has negotiated some offensives.
“What is encouraging is that boys do not let go, positted Pascal Dupraz, the coach Stéphanois recently arrived on the bench of the Greens. But our content must be better to avoid giving goals to the ‘opponent, and to score points so that we removed from this last place “.
On their side, the Lyonnais will now go to the developer against Marseille, Monaco, Nice, Lens and Lille. We will know what is their real potential. And at the end of February, a significant deadline is: that set by President Jean-Michel Aulas to take stock of club collaboration with coach Peter Bosz, arrived at the beginning of the season but whose results are disappointing.
“This is an important and deserved result,” said the latter after the meeting. “We concede less opportunities but we need to score more and play better, it’s for sure,” Lucidly added the Dutch coach.