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Olympique Lyonnais bowed against Manchester United in the quarter-final return from the Europa League, this Thursday (4-5, AP). A cruel scenario for heroic gones.
There was electricity in Manchester's air, for this reunion between United and Olympique Lyonnais, a week after a draw torn off at the end of the night thanks to the Virtuoso Rayan Cherki. In the ranks of OL, all the fires have been green in recent weeks, as if all the obstacles placed on the road had welded this group a little more in the spring, in these moments when the season changes.
But history could take another turn in the event of qualification in Old Trafford. Because Manchester United remains a legendary name for world football, despite disappointments in the shovel for over ten years and the end of the reign of Sir Alex Ferguson. Because OL always has a sword of Damocles above the head with its financial situation. And because a last square of the European Cup is never trivial in the history of a club.
Paulo Fonseca had chosen to replace Georges Mikautadze in the axis by leaving Alexandre Lacazette on the bench. The Georgian scorer has been one of the three strong ol links for long weeks, alongside Rayan Cherki and Corentin Tolisso. We hoped these three a little more than the others. We have seen that these Gones also had other resources.
The black hole in the first period …
In the hostile context of the theater of dreams, the Lyonnais have gone through turbulence. United may have the fun of Europe of Europe in its bad days, but its prestige, its European culture and the raw talent of its individuals can allow it to live some enchanted parentheses. The Lyonnais paid the price during a very delicate first half, where their defensive generosity has long gave the impression that the evening would run vinegar.
The former Parisian Ugarte opened the ball by taking over a center of the untenable carnacho (1-0, 10th), before Dalot doubles the set to half-time by adjusting Perri after winning a duel with Tagliafico (2-0, 45th+1). In the meantime, each team has had their moments, but if the Lyonnais had resumed a little oxygen when Cherki started to set foot on the ball after the first goal, they were especially kept alive by an still decisive perri, when he was not saved by his bar (16th, 36th).
… Before the Renaissance
Lyon was then at the foot of the wall. And another match started. This team has faults, but it has marrow and a soul, like Tolisso, which will be gone through all emotions. The world champion sounded the revolt by forcing Onana to work (54th) before seeing her lifelong accomplice, Lacazette, launched in the big bath. Carried by its old briscards, OL then entered a magic sequence. Tolisso, again, revived the hope of a victorious whim (2-1, 71st), then Tagliafico, on a confused action, saw his ball crossing the line to put all these beautiful people equally (2-2, 78th). An emotional elevator completed by the expulsion of the same Tolisso for a second warning on an involuntary gesture (88th)…
In the eyes of a Sir Alex Ferguson amai, this match was a great battle that the legendary Ecossa would not have denied. It was written that she continued at the end of the night. But the Lyonnais, who had left feathers and a man on the way, had to resist the breath of Old Trafford … They did better than that. With a crazy personality, the men of Fonseca pushed several counters to one or two against five. On the second, engendered by the confus Fofana, the ball arrived in Cherki's feet, whose cross shot showing the whole stadium (2-3, 104th). Since there was one, the elected official, it is him. As to go.
… And the blow
The hardest part remained to be done, but these 10 Lyonnais hung on to resist the opposite winds. It was strong, really. And the case was ratified when Fofana, again, obtained a penalty by pushing Shaw to the fault. Captain Lacazette transformed it without blinking (2-4, 108th), but United again retorted on another Peno by Bruno Fernandes (3-4).
Manchester United-Lyon, an unforgettable scenario.
The cold stroke before the blow. A 120-second space-time flaw where the sky fell on the head of the Lyonnais. MAINEOO equalized a clinical strike (4-4, 120th) before the Maguire Décriée offered his day of glory by delivering the British people with a dismissed head (5-4, 121st).
Final burst of an unforgettable evening. The theater of dreams turned into a nightmare. In these difficult times, we would have liked to see French football offering an enchanted new parenthesis. The battle of Anfield had brought us to the seventh heaven thanks to Paris, that of Old Trafford plunges us back into darkness.
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