Does OL still have as much "the psychological advantage" over PSG?

• After having already signed a new treble this season, OL will try to win their 7th Champions League in the Basque Country this week.
• The partners of Wendie Renard will find this Wednesday (8 p.m.) PSG for a necessarily electric semi-final.
• If the gap between the two best French teams has narrowed in recent seasons, "Lyon is still ahead", as international goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi reminds us.

Forget the 7-0 in the semi-final of the Champions League 2016 or the 5-0 in the "final" of D1 2019. Solid winner on Saturday of Arsenal (2-1) in the quarter-finals of the Coupe d 'Europe, PSG now seems to be safe from a close outcome of these two memorable beatings at Parc OL. The Franco-French semi-final of the Champions League, this Wednesday (8 p.m.) in Bilbao, promises to be as electric as it is hooked.

Still deprived of Ada Hegerberg and Griedge Mbock (Amandine Henry is uncertain), the Lyonnaises are aware of having posted in the quarterfinals (2-1 against Bayern Munich) limits rarely seen during their four European conquests in a row since 2016 .

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"We know each other inside out"

But the players of Jean-Luc Vasseur won their three confrontations of the season against PSG, including two on penalties to win the Champions Trophy and the Coupe de France. Enough to maintain a real "psychological advantage" over their historic rival, in France as in Europe?

“We know each other inside out, recognizes Jean-Luc Vasseur. The mental aspect is essential in these matches. It is important not to get annoyed, to stay in control of the game. We feel strong. What drives us today is to keep this series going. “And the Lyonnaises know it in the playoffs, also with 14 consecutive victories in D1.

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"It doesn't happen by chance on match day"

"I think that no other team will be able to do what we are doing today", estimates Sarah Bouhaddi, aware of the rise of the Paris of Olivier Echouafni. “The PSG remain on its dynamics, it is well structured, it defends well, and it likes to counter-attack. It's up to us to have the keys to break this defensive block. The gap is narrowing but Lyon is still ahead. We always win our competitions, ”insists the goalkeeper of the Blue. A hitherto implacable observation, and that Sarah Bouhaddi embodies perfectly in her favorite exercise of penalties. In 2016 and 2017, it thus offered the European trophy to its team at the end of the suspense against Wolfsburg… and the PSG.

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"I try to have the maximum psychological influence on the penalty shootout sessions," she confided at a press conference on Tuesday. It's a game that I try to set up with my opponent. I work on him a lot in training, it doesn't happen by chance on match day. It is analytical work. But I hope we don't go that far, our pleasure is to win within 90 minutes. “PSG has yet another opportunity to try to stop Lyon's hegemony on Wednesday.

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