It’s the kind of Friday night you don’t expect anything from, and then suddenly, the unexpected fireworks. Lille and Lyon gave us a close and tasteless match at half-time, before an explosion of the senses in the last 45 minutes: two penalties for Lille, and even a third canceled in stoppage time after a very exaggerated dive by Jonathan Bamba, OL who came out of nowhere with a double from Lacazette, and who was not far from prevailing on a last missed opportunity (pleonasm) by Moussa Dembélé.
A draw that will infuriate the Northerners, who in three games this season largely dominated against OL get away with a defeat, a draw and an elimination in the Cup, but a draw that boosts the Lyonnais a few weeks before this vital French Cup semi-final against Nantes:
“I think that from the start of the match, and that was the pre-match speech, we were convinced that we could achieve a result here, in Lille. We knew they were a very good team, with a lot of movement, a lot of play. Well, we offered some play too. Personally, I had an excellent evening because when there are good players on the field, with offensive desires and with coaches who have very offensive visions, that results in matches like this: six goals, that’s GOOD. We have felt for some time that there is something better, we see it in the life of the group, we feel it. It is in my opinion very important, in any case it is important for me. We may have been missing a reference match, tonight it was a reference match in the state of mind. »
But not a benchmark match in the standings: Lyon remains stuck in 8th place, far from European qualification through the championship, while Lille does not nibble much on fifth place from Rennes.