Sunday afternoon, OL confirmed their renewed form on the pitch with a great victory against Nantes (2-0). Unfortunately, it is the incidents leaving the stadium that are making the headlines this week.
The four following Olympique Lyonnais almost went unnoticed. On Sunday afternoon, Pierre Sage’s team scored a fourth victory in a row by beating Nantes, after having disposed of Olympiakos, Toulouse and Glasgow Rangers in the last fortnight. But unfortunately it is not Rayan Cherki’s dribbles or Lucas Perri’s saves which are making the headlines this week, but rather the incidents which broke out between several Olympique Lyonnais supporters leaving Groupama Stadium. Very violent incidents which shocked many families, witnesses to these scenes that we no longer want to see in our football.
Invited to speak on the subject in Greg’s Team on the L’Equipe channel, journalist Karim Bennani estimated that Olympique Lyonnais should not remain inactive, and had the power to identify and harshly sanction troublemakers. For the former Prime Video journalist, it is obvious that John Textor and the Lyon leaders must act quickly, otherwise there is a risk that these incidents will happen again and that a tragedy will happen in Décines. “Incidents can be resolved if the club acts very quickly. I think we must not let things deteriorate in the club and there are these clashes, otherwise it will happen again” fears the columnist, before concluding.
Karim Bennani encourages OL to act quickly
“If the club does not hit hard right away, there will be abuses. I hope that what we saw on Sunday was the first and last act of this kind. But OL, which is well managed and has a real structure, really needs to act very quickly within this framework. The club must act, Lyon knows its supporters normally, and if this is not the case, it is serious. We must hit hard immediately so that new excesses of this kind do not break out” launched Karim Bennani, who hopes that the leaders of Olympique Lyonnais, whom he holds in high esteem, will be able to quickly identify violent supporters in order to permanently exclude them from Groupama Stadium and send them to justice .
