OL captain Alexandre Lacazette sent a dig to Saint-Etienne on Friday before the derby between the two teams.
Olympique Lyonnais will face AS Saint-Etienne on Sunday in the 11e day of Ligue 1. A meeting which promises to be electric for the hottest derby in France. Hostilities have already started on both sides before Alexandre Lacazette adds his own this Sunday.
Alexandre Lacazette's scathing tackle on the Greens
This is one of the duels that has made the French public nostalgic over the last two years. But the nostalgia is over, the derby between OL and ASSE is back. Two years after the descent of the Greens, the two teams face each other on Sunday at the end of the 11e day of Ligue 1. Two days before the clash, Alexandre Lacazette showed a little more the extent of the rivalry between Lyon and Saint-Etienne this Friday. A rivalry that goes beyond the field and the stands and is even seen in the house of the Lyon captain where the color green, that of ASSE, is prohibited.
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” No. But still? Not even a little touch of green? “I don’t have this color at home. I can wear other colors, so yes, it’s forbidden at home,” he reveals before sending a tackle on the state of form of Saint-Etienne (10 pts), 16e in the general classification of Ligue 1. “They had a difficult period, but despite everything they had quality. They are tough in duels and play their transitions well. They create a lot of chances per match even if it's not always the football of your dreams. They have victories, we will have to be careful,” says the captain of Olympique Lyonnais (6e15e pts).
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