LOSC added a piece to the machine this Saturday, recording an 18th match without defeat in all competitions. However, the drawn result (1-1) was not the one expected by the chroniclers of l’After
Foot.
This Sunday, on the lawn of the Orange Vélodrome, Walid Acherchour had already shown himself little excited by the copy made by LOSC the day before, during the reception of FC Nantes (1-1). Despite the one-goal advantage, following Gabriel Gudmundsson's opener (41'), the Mastiffs were trapped in the transition phase, with a penalty converted by Abline (69'). This result “is generally deserved” for the chronicler, who had clarified his thoughts in l’After Footflagship program broadcast on the radio waves RMC. He also had a few words for the Swede, who impressed him.
“We saw an amorphous team which managed its one-goal advantage. In the first half, except Sahrawi who brought a little dangerI found that the circuits were quite slowhe analyzes. They managed to be effective on their first big chance with this Cabella bar taken over by Gudmundsson who, once again, puts on a very convincing match. This is not new. In the second half, there were a lot of sequences with the ball, but without really being dangerous, with this inability to score this second goal, with an imprecise (Rémy) Cabella, a transparent David…he judges. After equalization, LOSC failed to pull out all the stops to achieve this victory. Maybe it's fatigue, recovery,
but it's a real misstep for me.
Now they must instead look behind with Nice and Lyon in the championship”continues the editorialist, present on all the sets during this resumption weekend.
“Physically, it’s not easy to resume in January”
On the other hand, on the other side of the board, Kevin Diaz seeks to alleviate Lille's disappointment. In his eyes, there is no surprise to see the difficulties of LOSC given the context: “There is something that is starting to be clear in Ligue 1, Paris Saint-Germain included. As soon as a team plays with eleven at the back, in a very grouped manner with a central and compact block, it is complicated for all the teams! The French team is the samecompare-t-il. As soon as it's a decent team of eleven highly trained professionals who decide to defend for 90 minutes… They say that LOSC often struggles against poorly ranked teams, but it's the same for Marseille, especially at home. It's factual. When a team comes to a top 5 with little pressure and little to lose, it's difficult to score and create chances.
Physically too, it's not easy to start again at the beginning of January, the lawns are more complicated. Obviously, that makes for more complicated matches,” he said like this.
This analysis does not satisfy Walid Acherchour, for whom a team such as LOSC should be able to maneuver with this kind of opposition: « LOSC must ask itself how to thwart this game plan. This team has creative players with Haraldsson, Cabella, Sahraoui, David, André… to make the difference, even more so when you lead by a goal. He missed the madness of a Zhegrova, of a guy who can shake the coconut tree. […] I thought Lille had the maturity to win by one goal, that they were going to do the right thing, but they fell asleep and ended up being trapped.”he concluded, and definitively this time.
After Foot: LOSC – FC Nantes
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