EDITORIAL
>> Lyon is on a wire. Olympique Lyonnais is competing for the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League against Germany's RB Leipzig on Tuesday night at Groupama Stadium. For our editorialist Virginie Phulpin, this meeting is crucial for the future of Rudi Garcia, who will have to leave his coaching position in case of elimination.
"It goes or it breaks, I do not really see an intermediate solution, especially when the distrust is there since the departure.It's been two months since Rudi Garcia arrived on the bench Lyon.On two months that OL alternates the medium and the very bad on the field, two months that the click is not long, two months that the fans show their fed up every game or almost, so it's short, two months, to install a game project, It's true, but patience is not really a virtue of football, and to settle down in the long run, one would have to see the premises of a change.
And here I have some doubts, as this team often shows its lack of momentum and so much Rudi Garcia seems to be afraid of his shadow. The President Jean-Michel Aulas may say that in everyday life, he sees an ambition come back, it does not necessarily jump in the eyes, and I'm not sure that it is enough to convince the fans.
If there is qualification Tuesday night, it will calm the spirits and it will offer a few months of reprieve to a coach who probably needs to breathe a little. He could spend the truce safe, recharge his batteries, and why not come back in 2020 with clear ideas. Who knows, he could then find the time to convince that he can be the right person in the right place. But if Lyon is eliminated, I do not see how Rudi Garcia could stay. It would be untenable as a situation. With respect to the fans, but especially the locker room that needs confidence to find his football. "
So Tuesday night is the click or the departure for you?
"All the problems will not disappear with a stroke of the Magic League of Champions, but at least Rudi Garcia would have a European record to defend and a goal for 2020. And that could help him to make his place in Lyon. moment, he remains the former coach of OM who has tapped on OL, and who returned his jacket without flinching.
Put yourself in the place of Lyonnais: you see your main competitor, Marseille, progress every game under the leadership of André Villas Boas, and you, you stay stuck in your uncertainties with a coach unloved. And you're already 4 defeats since he arrived, not really the pace of a roped first. So with a further elimination tonight, it would be the drop of water that would overflow the Lyonnais vase. And for me, yes, we should consider the departure of Rudi Garcia. Basically tonight is qualification or revolution. "