The match: 3-2
Intense and very beautiful to see, this meeting was necessarily appreciated with a very particular flavor by PSG. This Sunday evening, Lyon beat Monaco (3-2) and, with this setback for ASM at Groupama Stadium, the verdict is in: with twelve points ahead of their runner-up with three days to go, PSG is officially crowned champion of France for the 12th time in its history.
The start of the game could have suggested a different scenario since Wissam Ben Yedder, one of the great men of the day, opened the scoring in the first minute for the Principality team. But OL turned everything around in four minutes, led by Saïd Benrahma. The attacking midfielder brought the equalizer, coming from the feet of Alexandre Lacazette (1-1, 22nd), then allowed his team to take the advantage just four minutes later (2-1, 26th).
Monaco reacted, still through its captain (2-2, 60th), both teams believed in it, Ben Yedder thought of the hat-trick, but it was ultimately the young Malick Fofana who offered victory to OL (84th ). With this result, Monaco has done very poorly and only has two points ahead of Brest, third and winner in Rennes this Sunday (5-4), and three over Lille, fourth. OL, for their part, passed Rennes and temporarily found themselves seventh, pending the Marseille match.
The fact: Ben Yedder still there
Last season, he scored after two minutes of play at Groupama Stadium. This Sunday, Ben Yedder did better, opening the score in the first minute! A goal validated after VAR intervention and which allowed the ASM captain to recall that he had lost none of his sense of goal, even though he had not found the fault in his last nine matches .
Ben Yedder still has this touch, this knowledge of placement, this flair, which also allowed him to equalize with a header (60th). The striker even thought he had scored a hat-trick, but his superb recovery was refused for a slight offside (79th). The score was then 2-2, he believed he would give his team victory and allow them to lock in second place. It would have been a nice farewell gift, as he reaches the end of his contract.
The player: Lacazette, the General in command
Alexandre Lacazette is essential to OL, we know it, we repeat it, but how else? This Sunday evening, while his team was trailing, the Lyon captain equalized, being on the lookout to take a cross from Benrahma, lightly touched by Nemanja Matic. Lacazette also has this taste for the collective, this intelligence of the game that others do not have. And at the end of the match, when the score was 2-2, it was he who, with a well-aimed pass, sent Fofana to score the winning goal. A goal, an assist, the General always guides his troops properly.
