Ainsley Maitland-Niles with Corentin Tolisso during Lille – OL (Photo by FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP)
By winning against Saint-Etienne on Sunday, OL entered the top 5 of Ligue 1. A nice climb up the rankings after a catastrophic start and zero points in two games.
Only one defeat in the last ten matches. Since the setback against theABOUT mid-September, theOL only lost once. It was in front of Besiktas and this Europa League meeting, the Lyonnais should have won it with a little more efficiency up front. Nevertheless, this denotes the fact that Pierre Sage's training is clearly on an upward slope, even if the latest results were not conclusive. Only when theOL suffered a series of defeats last season, Alexandre Lacazette's teammates manage to not lose and thus limit the damage. Sunday evening, they regained the taste of victory after four unsuccessful matches.
In times of passage despite everything?
These three points in the derby allowed the Rhone club to return to the Top 5 of Ligue 1. A long-term job that has been going on since the end of the summer transfer window. Rock Sage made no secret of it: this period had been complicated to manage and had resulted in two defeats in two matches. From ? It's not a full box, but with 18 points taken out of 27 possible, the’OL signs the best dynamic of the French championship behind the PSG (23). Not everything is perfect in the game, but this total is proof that this team is evolving in the right direction…
