- If a French club is still playing big this summer, it is OL, 7th in Ligue 1 and pending European qualification via the final of the League Cup or even an epic in the Champions League.
- Two weeks before their first shock against PSG, the Lyonnais conceded a sad loss on Thursday in their third preparation match against the Glasgow Rangers (0-2).
- Rudi Garcia may have downplayed this underperformance to 11 against 10, it is anything but trivial.
At Parc OL,
Whether OL plays in front of 40,000 supporters in Ligue 1 or in front of 5,000 carers invited for a preparation match, the reaction of the public has often been the same at Décines for many months. Hearty whistles accompanied the end of each period Thursday, during a defeat (0-2) against Glasgow Rangers reduced to ten from the 40th minute of play.
The long interruption of football in France linked to the health crisis of the Covid-19 does not seem to have regenerated a team which concluded the championship season (cut short) to an unworthy 7th place, after a 10th and final setback in Lille (1- 0) March 8. No idea after 20 minutes, however full of energy and pressing, in the wake of Maxence Caqueret, the Lyonnais then dived Thursday.
After two victories, #TeamOL lost to @RangersFC (2-0) for the first time in preparation.
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More engagement here than at Man U training?
Recognizing to be "upset", the Brazilian side Rafael urged his partners Thursday evening before the press: "It is not because the opponent scores a goal that we must stop playing. I hope we will learn from this defeat. But I can't come here all the time to tell you that we have to learn. ” Lucid about the chronic shortcomings of this group, Rafael even delivers an astonishing observation, on the evening of this third summer friendly match.
It's weird, we trained on Wednesday and we were all magnificent to defend against counterattacks and to do pressing. I played at Manchester United and I have never seen training like that in terms of engagement. Today it was not the same thing and that is what I find odd. "
Rudi Garcia does not venture to such a feeling, except to take up "the rather incredible rhythm" of this famous training which seems to make date in Lyon. Too bad it was followed by a numerical superiority setback against a team making its first post-containment opposition.
"We are at the level where we want to be"
There is no shortage of problems, starting with the absolute imbalance between the absence of a real wingman in the squad and the traffic jam with nine offensive players preferring the axis. “We were not effective in the areas of truth, launches as so often the coach of Lyon. We took two goals practically on the only two Scottish situations. "So he turns a blind eye to the two huge 0-3 balls spoiled by McCrorie (62nd) and Jones (77th). Does he still want to re-mobilize his group, two weeks from the final of the League Cup against PSG and three weeks from the 8th final return of the Champions League in Turin?
“We know that we are still in full preparation, that we are working hard, that we trained this [Thursday] morning and that the players do not have all the necessary energy, insists the former coach of OM. There is no need to worry, we are there at the level we want to be, not for the result of tonight but for the preparation. »Verdict on July 31 at the Stade de France, coach Rudi?
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