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TOPS/FLOPS – At the end of the completely crazy victory of the Red Devils against Olympique Lyonnais (5-4) Thursday evening in the quarter-final return of the Europa League, discover what pleased … and displeased our editorial staff.
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Bruno Fernandes, diabolical artist
What service of the captain of United. The Portuguese is the one who truly relaunched his team – at that time in perdition – in extra time, on penalty (114th), while Lyon had just taken the advantage. Symbolic of the omnipresence and omnipotence of the Red Devils playmaker, always precise and extremely just technically. A diabolically talented player of a rare class, guide of his family in this unreal evening (5-4).
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Alejandro Garnacho Infernal
Bruno Fernandes was not the only Offensive Mancunian stirring against the Lyonnais. The left winger of United has not stopped hitting, dezoning, harassing, attacking the Lyonnaise penalty area. A young player whose volume of play and physical endurance are impressive. A hungry. The 20 -year -old Argentinian notably put Jordan Veretout to the torture on each of his swaying dribbles. A follet fire very difficult to contain.
The entries of Alexandre Lacazette and Malick Fofana
The first, which came into play in place of a Jordan Veretout in agony (55th) was immediately decisive. The “general” is the author of the deviation guiding the ball on the skull of Corentin Tolisso for the first Lyon goal (71st) and was in ambush in order to push the leather to the bottom of the Mancunian nets on the second goal (78th) of his own (finally attributed to Nicolas Tagliafico).
For his part, the young Malick Fofana, in his preferential register, made his liveliness and explosiveness speak to jeopardize the rear guard of Manchester. The 20-year-old striker, by dint of percussion, collected the penalty transformed by Lacazette for 2-4 (110th) in favor of the Gones, just ten minutes from the end of overtime. Strugging bench outings.
A “legend” match
What a memorable evening. What football can best offer. A match with the frightening scenario, worthy of the biggest matches in the history of the European Cups. While the Red Devils were firmly led to the break (2-0), the Lyonnais returned from hell to equalize and push Manchester in extra time that seemed more indecisive than ever. The last 30 minutes were to get their hair, with an apotheosis final and the last goal for the Mancunians at the last second. Rhone supporters had to be disappointed and then transcended. The public of Old Trafford, dismayed and then exalted. The “Theater of Dreams” has never borne its name as well, especially for its tenants … A part that will remain in the annals, whether it is for the courage and the valor of the Gones as for the frantic resilience of the Red Devils.
Corentin Tolisso and Rayan Cherki hero …
The feeling that must predominate for the two Lyonnais must be special. The latter gave everything, made their best to propel OL into the last square in the Europa League. In vain. Corentin Tolisso, evening captain, sounded the revolt for the Gones, with a raging whim (71st), twenty minutes from the end of regulation time. Symbolic of its excellent season in the Lyon jersey. Subsequently, it was his brilliant teammate who gave the advantage to the Rhodanians, after a terrible counterattack and a sudden strike from the left (105th).
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… cursed
The playmaker then took on the role of Savior, while Tolisso turned into irreducible Lyon, before being unfortunately excluded at the very end of the match (89th), condemning his own to evolve in numerical inferiority until the final whistle. The accomplices, then absent from the second period of extra time, were spectators of the nightmarish fall of their partners. Two high quality performances to, in the end, a football cataclysm.
Jordan Veretout and Paul Akouokou catastrophic, Georges Mikautadze invisible
The only black notes of this wonderful return quarter -final. The Lyonnais, surprising holders, were simply disastrous. The first was wandered, notably by Garnacho, until its replacement (55th). The former Marseillais was late, in difficulty, to the torture on almost each of the Mancunian offensives. A level of play disturbing for a final game game of European Cup.
What about his counterpart? Aside that it is so lamentable? Not much. The Ivorian was engulfed, ridiculed in the midfield. Also replaced shortly before the time of play (55th), you had to stop the masquerade. Regarding the Georgian goalscorer of OL aligned at the start, did he play?
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OL from dreams to cataclysm
This evening in the north of England may leave serious traces to Rhodanian players. Very close to a capital feat in Old Trafford, the men of Paulo Fonseca went from the dream … to the nightmare. At the helm of the extra match, after being led 2-0, the Gones fully collapsed by taking a blast of three goals in the last minutes. A cataclysm for OL, which had demonstrated all its resilience and its courage to have the Red Devils wobble. In vain.
Lyon surely collects, paradoxically, the most “big” European shipwreck in its history, swept away and reduced in crumbs in the final moments of the meeting, by a weak Manchester United. At the final whistle, the Lyonnais, ringed and Ko standing, will quickly re-mobilize to go to Saint-Etienne on Sunday, for a derby that promises to be boiling. Olympique Lyonnais still has things to go for, including a direct qualification in the Champions League, and this nameless debacle in Manchester may have been right from the end of the Rhone season.
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