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Bruised by their elimination in the Europa League, the Lyonnais must imperatively bounce back into the boiling derby of the Rhône.
Marked by its cruel elimination Thursday in Manchester in the Europa League, Lyon must re-mobilize on Sunday with a derby in Saint-Etienne, a match to be won to bounce back and stay in the race for the Champions League.
Olympique Lyonnais was eliminated by Manchester United in the quarterfinals after its 5-4 defeat when it led 4-2 during the extension. The two teams had drawn (2-2) on the outward journey.
On the accounting level, before the 30th day, OL is 4th in the ranking (51 pts), the one which grants a barragist place in C1, two lengths from Monaco (2nd) and a Marseille point (3rd).
But Lille (5th) and Strasbourg (6th) have only a unit of delay in the Lyonnais, who must take advantage of the few hours to re -mobilize so as not to leave land in the final packaging of Ligue 1.
Players affected
“It will be hard to find the words, to speak because we have gone through a lot of emotions. We went from paradise to hell. It's very, very hard to digest ”deplored the playmaker, Corentin Tolisso, after the meeting. “There we will rest. We will have to raise our heads because we have a match to win on Sunday “he warned referring to the trip to Saint-Etienne. “We will have to be able to digest this disappointment before the derby”also underlined the striker Malick Fofana.
As such, nothing better than chaining with this match with the Grand Rival Stéphanois, in a Geoffroy-Guichard stadium where more than 40,000 spectators are expected, to avoid gamber too long and treat the disappointment of the supporters, ultra in particular, for whom the derby is one of the meetings not to be missed.
These have used for many years already to come and encourage, hundreds with songs and smoke bombs, like a ritual, players during the last training before facing the Greens, especially since they are prohibited from travel.
They will seek to comfort their players but it would probably be necessary not to disappoint them a second time in four days …
For coach Paulo Fonseca, it will be necessary above all to manage the state of his workforce, marked as physically by the debauchery of energy after having played the extension in numerical inferiority following the exclusion of Tolisso, as by the emotional load after a very great disillusionment.
Workforce to manage
The Portuguese technician does not have too much time to prepare for the trip on Sunday with a return to Décines-Charpieu on the night of Thursday at Friday at 4:00 am and a resumption of training this Friday afternoon.
In Saint-Etienne, OL will make an opponent who plays his survival in Ligue 1 of which it is 17th and penultimate (24 pts), and used to starting his matches before lowering pace in the second period.
But Lyon has a bench deep enough to make decisive changes and finish well.
In terms of players, Tolisso was excluded just before extension, Alexandre Lacazette, Georges Mikautadze, Rayan Cherki, Tanner Tessmann or Fofana, spared at the start of the match, did not play the entire game. Nemanja Matic, yet former Mancunian, did not play the outward or return.
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