The day Herbin took five in a derby at the head of… OL

This Derby was special, because the two clubs were going through a complicated period, they are in the second division. There will only be four contested on the lower level, this one is the second, in the first leg the Lyonnais had brought back a draw from Geoffroy-Guichard.

In the ranks of the Lyonnais evolve among others Olivier Rouyer, as well as a former and a future green, Jean-François Larios and Laurent Fournier.
The Saint-Etienne team looks great with, in particular, Jean Castaneda in goals, Thierry Oleksiak, Patrice Ferri or even Jean-François Daniel, the late Jean-Luc Ribar and Roger Milla.

The first half will be dominated by ASSE who will manage to open the scoring at the half-hour mark through Daniel. Despite everything, no one imagined at the break that the second period would turn into a football lesson, which the helpless Lyonnais would receive in front of their home crowd. Difficult to believe today, but some spectators from the Rhône region went so far as to applaud the Saint-Etienne demonstration, such was the quality of the game displayed.

From the restart in the 46th minute Jean-Luc Ribar increased the score (2-0). We only had to wait five minutes to see the same Ribar score a double and make the score 3-0. Twenty minutes from the end it was a native of Lyon, Patrice Ferri, who added to the score (4-0). It wasn't over because Diarté, who had replaced the injured Milla, added a fifth goal, which pushed some spectators to go home before time. Fortunately for the locals, Laurent Fournier managed to deceive Jean Castaneda in added time, thus making the pill less bitter (5-1).

If Henri Kasperczak, the Saint-Etienne coach, was delighted, the Olympique Lyonnais coach was dismayed, his name was Robert Herbin. The Sphinx, unworthily fired from ASSE, had responded to the advances of the leaders of OL, which was going through one of the worst periods in its history. The Sphinx will subsequently systematically refuse to discuss this sad experience. When he was asked much later what was the best memory he had of his time in the club in the capital of quenelles, he replied: “A concert by Hector Berlioz, at the Maurice Ravel auditorium”.