Trailing 2-0 at the break against Lille, the Lyonnais were able to turn the match around in the second half to finally win 4-3 after a crazy scenario. Alexandre Lacazette returned to Pierre Sage’s speech at half-time to re-mobilize the group.
The Lyonnais were stunned on Monday evening at half-time of the match against Lille. Trailing 2-0, unable to get a shot on target, their backs were against the wall. But Pierre Sage was able to re-mobilize his group at half-time to win 4-3. “The coach spoke throughout, I didn’t really have time to say anything,” explained Alexandre Lacazette, the Lyon captain, on Prime Video after the match.
“He had good words, he told us that we couldn’t give up now given where we came from,” adds Lacazette. “He had the right and useful words to wake up the team. (…) When we came back from half-time we felt that something could happen. The coach had told us that the third goal would be important.” The third goal, in fact, was signed by Saïd Benrahma and it revived OL.
“We said to ourselves that maybe the story would have been too good”
“There is no recipe”, however assured Pierre Sage, after the meeting, to explain the numerous matches overturned this season by his team. “The only thing we said to each other at half-time and that we said again at the end of the match, is that when there is even a trickle of oxygen left, it There is life and when there is life there is hope, so you might as well give it your all.”
The Lyon coach had doubts, despite everything, at the end of the match. “When we came back to 2-2 and they made it 3-2, we said to ourselves that maybe the story would have been too good, admitted Sage. But no, we still had the resources required.” As against Monaco, Brest, Toulouse or Montpellier in recent weeks, OL were able to make the difference at the very end of the match. A habit now.
