Hello everyone, we’re going to meet you this afternoon at Parc OL, not for a flamboyant French rugby XV match like Friday (sniff sniff) but for a quasi match of fear concerning Olympique Lyonnais. Yes yes, this is possible from the 8th day of Ligue 1 when a club openly aiming to qualify for the Champions League finds itself bottom (2 draws and 6 defeats) without having led the score once since this summer. The crisis is deep and as we suspected, the work is colossal on the part of this courageous Fabio Grosso, who has agreed to take over from Laurent Blanc on the bench.
This Sunday (3 p.m.) against Lorient (16th), any result other than a first success in the championship could cause noise, while OL will also be entitled to a pitch in a pitiful state, after having hosted several matches of the Rugby World Cup, including All Blacks-Uruguay on Thursday and France-Italy on Friday. One more worry, if indeed the Lyonnais are indeed the team looking the most to produce play this Sunday… Rare positive notes of the week: Alexandre Lacazette is back from his suspension match and Dejan Lovren could finally launch his season after his summer injury. We hardly dare imagine where this deeply sick group will be if there is still no victory after OL-Lorient and OL-Clermont…
» Join us from 2:30 p.m. from Parc OL, with kick-off at 3 p.m.