The context
Only three days after an honorable defeat against Liverpool in C1 (2-1), here we are in France to face the RC Strasbourg Alsace, in L1. A match where the only instruction is the LOSC side victory, a fortiori to keep this flattering place on the podium of the championship snatched in Nice (2-1) last weekend. Opposite, Strasbourg, 10th, had managed to hang Lille on the first leg and hopes at least recurrent, to get out of the soft belly in the ranking. Note an infirmary that is not full in Lille, with Umtiti, Bentaleb, Santos, Zhegrova, Fernandez-Pardo and Isaily on the side. Alexsandro and Jonathan David are suspended for the meeting. It is therefore Mohamed Bayo who inherits the keys to the Lille attack this Saturday evening.
The match
Despite a initial composition fairly largely altered from the one that started on Tuesday evening, LOSC assumes its ambitions and imposes its pace from the start. Pressure, precise, the DOGUES show the fangs and soon use it: on a good pressing from Haraldsson, cleverly extended by Bayo, the LOSC pushes the defense of Strasbourg to the fault and allows Osame Sahraoui, alone facing Petrovic, to score his second goal of the season (0-1, 8 ') At the very beginning of the game! An ideal scenario for our Lille who do not loosen the embrace: the untenable Haraldsson, decidedly in good shape, ideally serves Thomas Meunier a few minutes later. His law of the law, lit from the right of the goal, is missing the frame only thanks to the intervention of the Alsatian porter, who spares the family a more substantial delay (0-1, 17 '). Dominators despite some alerts on the goal of knight, the DOGUES keep their opponent in the vice, and even think they benefit from a penalty at the end of the first half. Whistled then canceled by Mr. Delajod, for a hand deemed lawful of Nanasi, the peno 'of the second Lille goal will not take place, and our team will regret it …
Because, not immune to a reversal of steam, the Lille quickly wipe their first swells in the second half: Emegha (57 ') then Diarra (59') test the knight's gloves, which intervenes in extremis on its line. The Meinau even retains her breath by thinking of seeing a hand, this time in the Lille surface, but there again, the referee lets the game play – and there again, rightly. Under pressure, Bruno Genesio's men struggle, but end up conceding the equalization on a miraculous volley of Andrey Santos outside the surface (1-1, 70 '): the Strasbourg, already the author of 8 goals This season was at the reception of a defensive head of Mandi. Without asking questions, he lights a Lucas knight perhaps embarrassed by his teammates.
Sounded and upset, the Lille try a small revolt by Bayo who attempts a daring resumption of law under the bar – diverted by Petrovic (72 '), But are quickly trapped on a counter of Moreira, who defeated Bouaddi to serve Diarra in the axis. The following center finds the head of Emegha who pierces the defense of knight again (2-1, 74 '). Overturned in five short minutes, the Lille even just escaped from grace two minutes later on a new head of Emegha, only at the second post. Fortunately, the child in the area watches over the grain and maintains the LOSC alive in the last quarter of an hour. A hope that Rémy Cabella will not be able to convert, author of a head at close range on Petrovic five minutes from the term, masterfully pushed by the Alsatian porter (87 '). Lille has been defeated for the first time in Ligue 1 since September 13 and the 4th day of Ligue 1 McDonald's. It was against … Saint-Etienne, their next opponent in the league.
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Still in the running for a direct qualification in the sixteenth finals of UEFA Champions League, the Lille will challenge the Feyenoord Rotterdam on Wednesday evening (9 p.m.) at Decathlon Arena Stade Pierre Mauroy! A meeting that promises to be full of emotions of the show to resell for all LOSC lovers, all united to prolong our beautiful European adventure. Our team will then receive AS Saint-Etienne in the league (Saturday, 9:05 p.m.), at the opening of a month of February which promises to be hot hot.
The match sheet
RC Strasbourg Alsace-Losc: 2-1 (2-1)
Saturday January 25, 2025, 7 p.m. – Ligue 1 MC Donald's, 19th day
Meinau stadium
Referee: M. Worked
Buts : Sahraoui (10 ') for LOSC
Warnings: Doukouré (19 '), Santos (37'), Diarra (64 '), Ouattara (65') for Strasbourg, Gudmundsson (33 '), Bakker (75') for LOSC
Rcsa: Petrovic – Doué, Doukouré, Sarr, Moreira – Santos, Diarra (C), OUATTARA (Sebas, 79 '), LEMARECHL (Senaya, 80'), Nanasi (Omobamidele, 46 ') – Emegha
Coach : Liam Rosenior
LOSC: Knight – Meunier, Mandi, Diakité, Gudmundsson – André (C), Bouaddi (Mbappé, 86 ') – Bakker (Angel Gomes, 80'), Haraldsson, Sahraoui (Cabella, 80 ') – Bayo (Malouda, 89')
Coach : Bruno Gejessio
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