France-Germany in the semi-finals of the Champions League. This is not a mistake. Olympique Lyonnais dismissed Manchester City in the quarter-finals of the Champions League (3-1), thanks to Maxwel Cornet and Moussa Dembele twice. Courageous and efficient, the Lyonnais showed great abnegation and solidarity to resist the tactical superiority - but too often sterile - of the players of Pep Guardiola. And join Bayern in the half, completing the Franco-German quartet with PSG and Leipzig.
(Almost) perfect start
If we exclude the action harvested by Sterling and Jesus in the 3rd, or rather the miraculous rescue of Marçal in his area, OL had everything good in the first half hour of play. Well in place, Rudi's men Garcia hampered City's ball handlers by tightening the lines and leaving them very little space, especially on their first touch of the ball. Deprived of their comfort in the organization and disturbed by this 3-5-3 made in Laurent Blanc de Pep, the Citizens often retreated, until the opening of the scoring. But all this cost a lot of energy for the Lyonnais, who were abused during the last quarter of an hour of the first period, forcing Lopes to release one or two equalizer balls in front of Sterling and Rodri.
Maxwell Cornet, him again!
We would have liked to have been in Pep Guardiola's head when Maxwel Cornet picked up a ball awkwardly left on the way by Toko-Ekambi to catapult it cleanly into Ederson's cage. Four goals in three games against his Manchester City, that must make him completely crazy. Even downgraded left side, the type continues to put him in misery. If this continues, the Skyblues will drop 50 million euros to make him play with the reserve all year round to be sure that Cornet never causes them harm again.
A weak time that revives City
The second half begins as the first ended, with a low block, very low, too low. Cancelo and Sterling have fun with Dubois, De Bruyne has more and more space in the middle and Pep Guardiola takes advantage of his depth of bench to amplify the torture while Rudi Garcia is slow to turn his team. And the inevitable ends up happening. Ideally served by Sterling who had just put Denayer in the wind, De Bruyne opens his foot. Flat foot, security. Lopes, impeccable the whole game, can do nothing.
Then a highlight to end it
It was believed, at that time, that the Lyonnais had nothing left in their hands. But the substitutes did their job perfectly. Again present in the duels, the Lyonnais were able to surprise a team completely unbalanced by the offensive changes of Guardiola. City certainly wanted to end it before extra time, it was OL who finally folded the game twice thanks to Dembele. Before the second goal of the French striker, Raheem Sterling missed the inevitable in the 87th, as everyone saw the ball go in, including Pep. Great epics also have their share of success.
And now, Bayern!
Barely enough time to celebrate the victory against Manchester City that he makes him look to the future. Lyon will cross swords with a machine Bayern, who crushed Barça the day before. The march seems really too high this time, but this astonishing Lyon team has resources and a European mission to carry out. As a well-known athletics commentator would say: “So maybe? ! "
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