Mohamed-Ali Cho in the duel with Clinton Mata and Alexandre Lacazette during Nice-OL (Photo by Valery Hache / AFP)
Beaten by Lens, OL no longer has its destiny in their hands in the race for the Champions League. Seventh, the Lyonnais still keep a meager hope of hanging one of the last three qualifying places.
This is necessarily a hot speech and especially in front, but Sunday, the hope of being in the Champions League had not completely disappeared at theOL. However, with the 2-1 defeat against the RC Lensthe Lyonnais shot each other in the foot, now being four lengths from the podium and three from fourth place, which can still send to the C1 despite a dam and a preliminary turn to pass. In this sense, Paulo players Fonseca still want to believe it, even if “We no longer have our destiny in our hands”as Moussa conceded Niakhaté and Jorge Maciel After the Sunday match.
Competitors that collapse at the same time
Nevertheless, if mathematically, everything is still possible, it will take a sacred alignment of the planets on the last two days to see OL finish third or fourth in Ligue 1 with two victories. Small inventory that would allow you to see this improbable scenario come true on May 17 after the last day against Angers to Décines.
It would be necessary Monaco Do not win any of his last two games including a defeat against OL. That Strasbourg or Nice do the same to reach a total of 59 points maximum. At the same time, Lille should not do better than a victory and a defeat on its last two outings for a total of 60 points, but a goal-awakening which would be in favor of OL. Apothecary calculations which show that the mission promises to be almost impossible.
Scenario to see OL third or fourth in Ligue 1:
- OL prevails at Monaco then against Angers And the three teams that precede him lose at least one match each (without catching up to their difference in goals in the second meeting): Strasbourg has Angers or against Le Havre ; Lille has Brest or against Reims ; Nice has Rennes Or against Brest and Monaco is not better than a draw in Lens.
- OL prevails at Monaco then against Angerstwo of the teams among Strasbourg, Lille and Nice lose at least one match and Monaco is not better than a draw in Lens.
