• Le Losc is doing better.

    Lille won Saturday in Strasbourg (2-1) for the 8th day of Ligue 1.

  • Thanks to this success, they return to the first part of the Ligue 1 table.

  • Above all, beyond the score, the Lille have delivered a real good performance.

    "The group has raised the cursor in terms of requirements and intensity", appreciated the northern coach Jocelyn Gourvennec.

At the Meinau stadium in Strasbourg,

"In champion mode".

In the press room at La Meinau on Saturday evening, Lille journalists all agreed: Losc had just delivered a great match.

At least in line with those released last year before being crowned in front of PSG.

Surprising for a dying team a week ago, after a new defeat, which is more in the derby in Lens (0-1).

But after the encouraging success against Reims (2-1), the players of Jocelyn Gourvennec have therefore spent the second in Strasbourg (still 2-1).

Six points taken in two games, a provisional eighth place and above all a real successful collective performance… Move on, there is no longer any crisis to be scrutinized among the Mastiffs.

"The group has raised the cursor in terms of requirement and intensity", appreciated the northerner coach, welcoming "a match full of qualities but also self-sacrifice".

"We were fair in our passes [...] and we really had a defensive block and a coherent attacking game," he continued, noting that his players had "found feelings in the transition game ".

Better without Yilmaz?

In the field, it gave a nice demonstration of mastery for about seventy minutes.

Lille have significantly hampered their opponents in his recovery, which allowed them to almost never be in danger.

And in the other direction, they perfectly knew how to benefit from the talent and the percussion of their duo of attackers David-Weah, unstoppable.

The first certainly missed a duel against Sels (8th) but he made up for it by opening the scoring with an offering from the second (23rd).

Then the Canadian planted his double after a penalty obtained by… the son of the 1995 Ballon d'Or (57th).

Enough to send Burak Yilmaz prematurely to retirement, left to rest in Alsace?

"No, I do not think (that we are better without him), quickly deflated Gourvennec.

It is very regularly decisive and important for us.

"

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But the Turk was not on the pitch during his partners' best performance this season, that's a fact.

It will certainly be on Wednesday in Salzburg, where Losc will therefore arrive with a few references in mind.

When this team behaves as it did in Strasbourg, it can be formidable.

Well almost since she also missed, roughly, the last twenty-five minutes, including stoppage time.

So what happened?

Lille began to move back, undergo the opposing pressing before conceding the goal of the Alsatian hope (Sissoko, 75th).

The story might even have ended badly if Thomasson had not left Racing at ten (79th) and if the referee had been more careful on a high foot of Reinildo in the middle of the box (90th + 5).

"It would be good to afford a little more peaceful end to the game," admitted the northerner without getting too excited.

"Is the season on?

We have to because we have a lot of deadlines.

This is the start of the series.

Now we have to move on.

"

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