Zapping Foot National Interview – The underside of amateur football, with Romain Molina
Three days before the reception of FC Nantes (Sunday at 3 p.m.) for the seventh day of the French championship, which will be followed live on Foot-National, Olympique Lyonnais traveled to Scotland to challenge the Rangers on the occasion of the second day of the regular phase of the Europa League this Thursday, October 3. At the end of an exciting first act, the Rhone club leads largely (3-1). But, Les Gones lost two players to injury: Nemanja Matic and Clinton Mata.
A spectacular start to the match
From the first seconds of the match, Olympique Lyonnais conceded an opportunity. The ball is poorly cleared by the Lyon defense on Lawrence, who involuntarily deflects towards Tavernier, alone at 5m50 and covered by Matic. The captain takes his chance but comes up against Perri, well placed and who pushes back with his left leg (3rd). Five minutes later, Lawrence crossed his shot but scored against Perri. Cerny is alone at the reception but shoots incredibly above (8th). Despite a tricky start to the match, the Rhone club managed to open the scoring. Cherki accelerates and hits full axis to the surface. Well defended, he can shift Fofana who rolls his right shot perfectly and deceives Butland (1-0, 10th). A short-lived advantage since the Scots quickly equalized. On a ball that was lying around in the area, Tolisso tried to head Perri but it was too short. The Brazilian goalkeeper wins in front of Dessers but he cannot catch the ball and Lawrence takes the opportunity to equalize from the left, from close range (1-1, 14th).
Five minutes later, Pierre Sage’s men took advantage of a big Scottish error to regain the advantage. Barron misses his back pass. Fofana takes advantage, accelerates full axis, fixes the defense to better serve Lacazette, alone at the far post. His flat right foot ends up in the back of the net (2-1, 19th). Shortly before the half-hour mark, OL lost two players to injury, Nemanja Matic and Clinton Mata. The midfielder and defender were respectively replaced by Maxence Caqueret and Moussa Niakhaté. Despite everything, the resident of Groupama Stadium continued to outrageously dominate the first act. While the Rangers were in an attacking position, Tolisso was able to restart and served Fofana, who exploited the many spaces by launching into a fantastic solo. He manages to get rid of the defense but misses his shot a little and stumbles on Butland (31st). In added time, the seven-time French champion made the break. Served at the entrance to the area by a double contact pass from Tolisso, Lacazette turns around and gets into a striking position. He sends a real missile from the right into the top corner of Butland (3-1, 45′ +1). Behind, nothing more will happen and the referee whistled the break after six minutes of added time (45′ +6).
To summarize
Olympique Lyonnais traveled to Scotland to challenge Rangers on the second day of the regular phase of the Europa League. At the end of an exciting first act, the Rhone club leads largely (3-1).