2023-10-01 12:52:44
Still no victory and a last place for Olympique Lyonnais beaten by the Stade de Reims provisional runner-up to AS Monaco in Ligue 1. Nothing is going well in Lyon. OL, last at kick-off after Clermont’s draw against PSG, and who have not won a match since May 27 – against Reims – were certainly traveling to Champagne without Alexandre Lacazette. However, it was Fabio Grosso’s men, with Rayan Cherki in the lead, who, for once, showed themselves to be the most enterprising from the outset without being dangerous.
But after a first quarter of an hour of hesitation, the Reims attacking trio began to hamper Lyon’s restarts and, after a powerful shot from Sinaly Diomandé well stopped by Yehvann Diouf (18th), Reims in turn obtained his first opportunity: Junya Ito’s recovery from the edge of a Teddy Teuma cross went over the goal (20th). When nothing happened afterwards and we entered the extra minute, Foket recovered a poor restart from Anthony Lopes before Marshall Munetsi opened the scoring with a diving header in the first post on a cross from Ito (45th + 1).
In the second half, due to a lack of reaction from his team after seven minutes of play, Fabio Grosso replaced Cherki, transparent, with Ernest Nuamah, and Corentin Tolisso, no longer in sight, with Johann Lepenant… before losing Mama Baldé to injury (68th). And to break down quickly: ball recovered in Lepenant’s feet by Teuma who crosses, Ito’s header pushed back by Lopes, second blade, still with a header, signed by captain Yunis Abdehamid (71st). Will Still’s players calmly mastered the rest and the goalkeepers were no longer worried.
With this victory, Stade de Reims climbs onto the podium in second place, one point behind Monaco while awaiting the end of this seventh day. For their part, the Lyonnais are now bottom of Ligue 1, ahead of Clermont on goal difference.
Anthony Lopes, triste record
Even if he must have been mainly concerned about the destiny of his team, Anthony Lopes had surely dreamed of better when it came to breaking a record. Better than this poor recovery at the origin of the first of the two Reims goals, this fifth defeat in seven games and this place at the bottom… It’s difficult to do worse. The masked Portuguese nevertheless honored his 350th Ligue 1 match, all with Lyon. Since his debut in the elite on April 28, 2013, he is the player with the most matches in L1 (349) and the most clean sheets (113). Only Grégory Coupet (370) and Yves Chauveau (420) have more matches among OL goalkeepers in Ligue 1.
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Lyon remains on 6 trips without a victory in Ligue 1 (1 draw, 5 defeats), while it had won 4 of the previous 5 (1 draw).
The last time Les Gones had such a long away run in the top flight was in January-April 2017 (6).
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