“We arrived at half-time”lamented Pierre Sage, the coach of Olympique Lyonnais, very critical of the first period of his players after the draw in Lille (1-1) Friday during the tenth day of Ligue 1.
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OL were dominated during the first act, both in terms of the number of clear chances and in statistics, to the point that Lille could have scored at least two other goals.
“Lille would have deserved to lead much more widely”
“The only chance we had was to only be down 1-0 because Lille would have deserved to lead much more given our performance and the quality of what they produced”affirmed Pierre Sage. “It’s quite incredible to be so pale when we manage to be so colorful in the second half. We abandoned ourselves. »
The coach, however, praised the reaction of his players upon returning from the locker room: “We found our team. »
Bruno Genesio, his Lille counterpart, recognized that each team had its highlight: “We each had half time. The first was for us with a lot of good things, especially in the pressing and the use of the ball, the regret we can have is not having been effective enough because we had very big chances to lead 2-0. We fell back a lot in the second half and were under a lot of pressure. »
