before Real Madrid, Lille explodes Le Havre thanks to a hat-trick from David

Four days before its gala meeting against Real Madrid, Lille can take a breather. Against Le Havre this Saturday, Bruno Genesio’s men raised the bar, having remained in 5 matches without a victory for a month. Above all, they achieved this success without ever giving their opponents a chance to hope (3-0), and by making them appear to be “children against adults», as Abdoulaye Touré summed up so well at half-time of the match. Indeed, Le Havre never existed in the first period, conceding 13 shots, and the outrageous domination of their opponent, whose ball possession almost exceeded 80%.

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At the start of the match, Desmas kept his team afloat by diverting a header from David (8th). This same David who was not going to give him any chance, ten minutes later, after an offering from Sahrawi behind (23rd). In the same configuration, the Canadian scored his 90th goal in the colors of LOSC, again on an offering from the Moroccan, very restless and author of his first two assists of the season (35th). Each acceleration from Tiago Santos and Zhegrova caused a wave of panic to blow through the Norman defense, on the street, but fortunately, Desmas was decisive.

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Hat-trick for Jonathan David

At the break, Didier Digard’s blower must have gone through the walls, with Le Havre returning with better intentions. But after all, it wasn’t very difficult to do worse than what we had seen in the first 45 minutes. Chevalier was vigilant in front of Soumaré (49th), Ngoura lost his face to face with the French goalkeeper (62nd), Targhalline gave some chills to Lille, and Ngoura missed his header (65th). On the Lille side, Sahraoui continued to torment the Le Havre defenders, before being replaced at the end of the match (74th).

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Lille ended up turning off the power to a still awake Stade Océane. Zhegrova left Opéri on the floor, then sent a cross to the line for David, alone at the far post. The Canadian didn’t ask for that much and finally scored a hat-trick (79th, 0-3), his third in Ligue 1, something that only Moussa Sow had been able to do under the colors of LOSC in the 21st century. He could even score a quadruple from the penalty spot, but Angel Gomes took care of it and missed in the final moments of the match. Regardless, this victory for Lille comes down to one man: Jonathan David. We will now have to be able to repeat against an opponent of another caliber: the reigning European champion from Madrid.