To find traces of such a series of defeats for Lyon in the top flight, you have to go back to 1991. Anthony Lopes is disillusioned: “In terms of manner and state of mind, the copy has not been fulfilled, far from it (…) I don’t even know if we hit the goal during the game (4 shots for OL, 21 for Lens, editor’s note).” The Gones goalkeeper is not hiding behind the blow of fatal fate: a hand from Thiago Mendes, who gave birth to a penalty converted by Florian Sotoca (82nd minute).
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Maxence Caqueret (Lyon) and Seko Fofana (Lens) / Ligue 1
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The penalty? Not an excuse
“When it doesn’t turn in our favor on game facts like that, it’s because generally, we don’t deserve anything“, eludes Lopes. The Portuguese goalkeeper does not see an ounce of injustice: “He hurts (this goal) but afterwards, in the face of the match… we didn’t show anything” Same story on the side of Caqueret, which retains the differential energy deployed by the two formations: “Lens showed more desire, more commitment (…) it’s up to us to do much better.”
Anthony Lopes continues, in the same vein: “The Lensois had an irreproachable state of mind, we knew they were going to be pushed by a public on fire. We should have done a lot more.” He expects a very different atmosphere at the reception of Toulouse next Friday, fearing that the support of his supporters will turn into pressure: “It’s going to be very complicated (…) We will have to get a result, we have to be full until the World Cup.”
“The players have their opinion…”
Peter Bosz has a reading of the meeting different from that of his two players. The Lyon coach did not find his team so dominated, according to his reaction, still with Prime Video. “It’s hard to lose on a penalty like that (…) I’m not going to say anything against my players. We did our best with the players on the pitch.”he analyzed, insisting on the “absent“which he deplored this Sunday (Malo Gusto, Corentin Tolisso, Moussa Dembélé in particular).
Relaunched on the divergent vision of Caqueret and Lopes, he replied: “The players have their opinion… My opinion is that they have worked (…) given everything.” The ex-Ajax coach, however, admitted to being “angry” after this failure on the smallest of scores at Bollaert. He also abounded, concerning the urgency of the situation: “I’m worried because we lost four times (…) We can do better, we must do better, absolutely.”
The Lensois commune with their public, after a 1-0 success against OL in Ligue 1 – 02/10/2022
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“The gap is widening”
Do better, but how? “I would like to knowannoys Anthony Lopes, who delayed the deadline as he could, this Sunday. Because we would have remedied all that. We will have to find solutions internally, between us, maybe know how to say things to each other (…) You have to know how to put your ass on the ground at each match. Maxence Caqueret advances a quantitative argument: “We work during the week… but we have to work even more, be much more killer.”
“We must quickly correct all this, because it will not do it“, insists one of the jewels of the Rhone training center. “Olympique Lyonnais aspires to seek the best European places, and therefore the Champions League. We are very, very far from that. The gap is widening“, worries Lopes, while Lyon, 7th after 9 days, is 9 points from the podium. While Bosz is betting on the Coué Method: “I have confidence for the future, we will spin this.” He seems to be the only one.
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