Clinton Mata (OL) against Emegha (Strasbourg) (photo by Sebastien Bozon / AFP)
Despite OL’s offensive domination against Lens on Sunday, the defensive weaknesses of Lyonnais were once again put to the test. A scramble and a 33 -meter strike was enough for blood and gold to impose itself in decinses (1 – 2).
It was the flood at Parc OL This Sunday. And we cannot say that the Lyon performance in the face of RC Lens brought a clarification to an already well capricious weather. Losing 2 goals to 1, the men of Paulo Fonseca underwent an undoubtedly fatal defeat there in the race for Champions League. Despite everything, they knew how to impose their domination throughout the meeting by storming half of Artesian land.
But the Lyonnais only kills on a very solid defensive block. Like a Facundo Medina impassable. And when they stood out in the axis or multiply the centers on the heads of northern defenders, the counterattacks they could suffer suggested their chronic defensive difficulties.
Bad defensive transitions
The first real Lensoise situation, led by Andy Diouf and concluded by Goduine koyalipouendangered Lucas Perri which could only deviate the powerful strike from the Central African corner striker. It is on this same corner kick that the teammates of Corentin Tolisso have cashed the opening of the score, after a scramble in the area (21ᵉ). The control of the game resumed, the 52,020 spectators present long believed in equalization in the second period.
And it is ultimately Georges Mikautadze (79ᵉ) who thought he was putting his own on good rails. Before bad memories re -emerge. After Jonathan Rowe in September against OM (2 – 3), it is Anass Zaroury who went there from his distant strike. A 33 -meter missile in the skylight of Lucas Perri Who may have destroyed the dreams of C1 of Lyonnais in the last moments of the game. A personal feat of the Moroccan striker but above all a great passivity in the Rhone defense, as castigated it Micautade at the microphone of BeIN Sports After the meeting. “We take two goals that we can avoid, especially the second. We do not go out on it, he is alone for 5, 10 seconds and he has time to prepare his shot”.
An unfortunate record for Paulo Fonseca
However, the two Lensois achievements have come from nowhere. An apparent defensive mastery of Rhodanian Finally annihilated as soon as the opposing counterattacks were putting in place. And theOL is now customary because. Its defensive line is too crumbly, especially since Paulo Fonseca is in charge of the team. Under the orders of the Portuguese technician, the Lyonnais have indeed conceded 29 goals in 17 games. Or an average of 1.7 realization granted by meeting. No coach had done worse since Oscar Heisserer Between 1950 and 1954 (2.1).
Gaps that have already persisted in many seasons and which do not seem to want to get lost in Rhône et Saône. Moussa Niakhaté et Clinton Mata are the first concerned. Indeed, their team conceded at least one goal in each of their last nine games in official competition. His worst series in the same season since January-February 2001 (9). Sad records which fall one by one and which distance theOL of its sporting objective, and above all financial, of qualification in Champions League Next season.
