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Of our special envoy to Manchester,
Who dared to talk about dream theaters? For a long time, and perhaps never again in their lives, the Lyon supporters will not want to remember the nightmare lived Thursday in Old Trafford, in the quarterfinals return from Europa League against Manchester United. A trauma, a haunt, a hallucination that will come to wake them up in sweat in the middle of the night of time to other to remind them of this moment of tragic history.
In six minutes, the Gones' dream collapsed. Six irrational, inexplicable, crazy minutes who saw Paulo Fonseca and his men dream of a short trip to the Basque coast in fifteen days to face the Athletic Bilbao to that of a direct way to hell. Three thousand six hundred seconds at the end of the extension during which OL went from two goals ahead of a delay goal without really understanding how.
Old Trafford empties, the famous OL
To tell the truth, we had not understood very well either how the Lyonnais had managed to return to the match at 2-2 (same score than to go to the Groupama Stadium), after a first period at the limit of the professional fault where the idiots' losses were linked. Not also included how Corentin Tolisso was expelled for a second yellow card at the end of regulation time, while Lenny Yoro held himself on the leg of the 2018 world champion.
But it was therefore nothing next to this crazy and inconsistent extension where Lyonnais to one less, therefore, scored two goals (Cherki and Lacazette) and smashed the door which opens the path to the semi-finals. We then played the 110th minute of play and Old Trafford was starting to empty very slowly while the absolute intoxication won the OL players and the 2,500 gones present in parking. Error. Big error.
“We led 4-2 with one player less on the field, but we celebrated a lot on our fourth goal, when we have to celebrate at the final whistle, tried to explain Paulo Fonseca after the meeting. Maybe we thought at this moment that we had won, we missed a little emotional balance at this time. »Arrived in the mixed zone with a very low head and having as much want to respond to journalists as to learn the Nepalese, Moussa Niakhaté refuted this theory.
“We didn't do it on purpose”
“We know football, we knew that it was not won,” blown the central defender is a big club with a big story, a hot stadium. We knew it was not won, but we did not do it on purpose. ” Fortunately. But the little scenes of joy of the Lyonnais after Lacazette's goal also scored Harry Maguire, author of the improbable fifth goal at the end of the extension after spending most of his time suffering because of the speed of the Rhodanian attackers.
“This is the craziest match that I played in all my career,” said the central defender in the well -hung caravan in the mixed zone. When they score the fourth goal, I tell myself that it is still time, since it is in the 109th minute. And given how they celebrated, they thought they had won. And that gave us a surplus motivation to overthrow the meeting. »»
Motivation to first go and seek a sympathetic penalty thanks to “the Real Madrid spirit” which always surrounds Casemiro in the 116th minute (3-4) and thanks to a succession of errors of evening visitors for eighty seconds which will train the last two English goals: a block that is very very low, Bruno Fernandes left free to do everything he wants, Tiago Almada, Tiago Almada, Aisley Maitland-Niles who does not mark Kobbie Mainoo (4-4); Casemiro not attacked, Moussa Niakhaté who looks a duel with Maguire while demanding a fault on the goal of 5-4.
Centers' maguire, we had not seen him coming
Yet well in place during the extension despite the numerical inferiority, OL may also have lost its bearings with the change made by Paulo Fonseca, who chose to strengthen the central axis by putting Duje Caleta-Car in place of Nicolas Tagliafico. “I do not regret my changes at the end, because Manchester United began to play long balls, so I had to answer that,” replied the Portuguese.
Our file on Olympique Lyonnais
Responding to the Maguire threat, it's still falling low, would you say? Not so sure, because Ruben Amorim had planned his blow. Deprived of attackers on the replacement bench because of the injuries, the Red Devils technician had decided to play everything for everything by putting Maguire on the front of the attack. Daring, but successful.
“If he asks me to play there, I go, I see myself as a threat and I can score,” said the former Leicester defender. It is perhaps by seeing this that the supporters of United, accustomed to seeing best, cantona, yorke, van Nistelrooy, turned with the eye and decided to leave the stadium. It will teach them to have luxury tastes.
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