Pierre Sage avant OL – Besiktas (Photo by MUSTAFA YALCIN / ANADOLU / Anadolu via AFP)
Unable to produce play for an hour, OL woke up with their four starters and thought they could hold on to victory thanks to Alexandre Lacazette two minutes from the end. Before showing inattention to the great displeasure of Pierre Sage.
Ninth in the standings after this 4th day of the Europa League, theOL could have been in the top third of the competition within a minute. Because in this complicated evening in Germany, the Lyonnais had still found the mental and technical resources to pick up the score and even take the advantage against Hoffenheim. Thanks to a real attacking goal from Alexandre Lacazette, OL thought about making a little hold-up against Hoffenheim in the 93rd minute. This was without counting on a reminder error from Rémy Descampsa lack of aggressiveness and a goal from TSG 1899 to snatch a draw (2-2) one minute from the end. Enough to get Pierre out Sage of its hinges.
“It's both cruel and unacceptable, when you build a victory by making so much effort, by putting in so much madness from the 60th minute onwards, I think it's unacceptable not to protect for a minute or two what we had difficulty building, in my opinion, we had to protect it as if it were the most important two minutes of our lives, for a moment we let the opponent regain hope. and get back to the score. It's a feeling that resembles the one we experienced against Marseille (2-3 defeat at the last second, Editor's note).”
Before receiving theAS Saint-Etienne this Sunday, the players of theOL were keen to rediscover the taste of victory. This Friday, the point brought back d’Hoffenheim rather that of defeat.
