Lyon (AFP)
For Lyon coach Sylvinho, "it's good before returning to Ligue 1". And League 1 is already the derby at Saint-Etienne Sunday! Winner 2-0 in Leipzig in the Champions League on Wednesday, Lyon can now challenge the Greens with a refreshing mind.
"We will continue to work to get the derby," said striker Martin Terrier, the author of OL's second goal in Germany, ensuring a win that ended seven games without a win.
This bad series had inevitably weakened Sylvinho, like any coach in lack of result. Its position is however not stabilized with this success in Leipzig.
A win for the Greens, which would be the second of the week, in addition to the prestige it brings, it would bring a little respite, and would especially bring confidence to the team.
In difficulty, Olympique Lyonnais is a club that knows not to scatter and panic.
While the sporting director, Juninho, went on the job Saturday, followed Sunday by President Jean-Michel Aulas to put some pressure, the players had dinner together on Monday night, at the initiative of Léo Dubois, in a restaurant. from the Lyon region. Actions that have helped to find at least a collective sense.
- Match reference -
"This is our benchmark match on mentality and team spirit, and now we will have to play every game the same way, including the derby," he warns. "Everyone thought collective, we have to go on," Terrier points out.
The latter was preferred to Moussa Dembélé, poutant co-top scorer of the team with Memphis Depay (6 goals), another hero of the match in Leipzig, in a 5-3-2.
"It's never the system that wins.At each game, we try to find the organization that puts the players in the best conditions, so it's the victory of the players and not that of the system," Sylvinho insisted.
"We are very happy to have broken this negative spiral, and tonight we saw players all together, a solidarity team that fought," said midfielder Lucas Tousart.
Terrier, Tousart but also Brazilian central defender Marcelo, who has delivered one of his best matches since he arrived at OL in 2017, did not initially enter Sylvinho's plans, which Juninho criticized for not having the team run early enough during the summer.
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For nothing like this, as the former star of OL claimed at the beginning of the season, that healthy competition to boost a group and raise the level of each.
Terrier was often left behind in the Brazilian coach's choices, like Tousart during the pre-season period, that Juninho, during his presentation press conference, had a little denigrated by saying he wanted "a sentinel more technical "and that seemed to be preceded by Thiago Mendes.
Marcelo, at the end of a disappointing season 2018/19, had to suffer from the competition with the Danish Joachim Andersen, the club's most expensive rookie club, acquired for 30 million euros bonus included.
"We played as a team, we are very happy, it's important for the head, we have to enjoy it and think about it," said the former Besiktas player who behaved as boss while Andersen , which is gaining momentum after hesitant beginnings, has been very strong in Germany.
Even if everything was far from perfect in Leipzig, it remains to be seen whether Lyon will confirm this upturn on Sunday in the Cauldron.
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