Like Tino Kadewere, little success on Wednesday, OL suffered their first hitch in two and a half months against Brest (2-2).

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PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP

  • Long led (0-1) and in a day without, the Lyonnais believed they had succeeded in overthrowing Brest on Wednesday thanks to Memphis Depay and Maxwel Cornet (2-1, 80th).

  • A strange penalty conceded by Anthony Lopes, "victim of his bad reputation" according to Rudi Garcia, finally prevented OL from chaining a sixth success in a row (2-2).

  • In addition to this missed exit from the Lyon goalkeeper, a very defensive choice by Rudi Garcia, despite the numerical superiority, calls out.

At Parc OL,

The last moments of this OL-Brest (2-2) will perhaps cost the Lyonnais dearly, in five months.

Remaining on an impressive series of 22 points taken out of 24, they probably could not imagine seeing their dynamic as a potential title candidate stop at home, Wednesday against the Bretons (10th).

Especially since OL had all the cards in hand, after having reversed the meeting in 12 minutes thanks to his substitutes for the evening Memphis Depay (1-1, 68th) and Maxwel Cornet (2-1, 80th).

And this with as a bonus the expulsion of Brestois Paul Lasne (73rd).

But there, we were entitled to a

high-end

fail

, which allows PSG to regain second place, one point ahead of OL (3rd).

"With one more player, we had to better manage this end of the match", recognizes Mattia De Sciglio, at fault on the opening of the Brest score, concluded with a goal against his unhappy side of Anthony Lopes (0-1, 38th) .

We therefore play the 86th minute of play when Maxwel Cornet sends a back pass as soft as it is risky to his goalkeeper.

For Rudi Garcia, "it is the fault of the Brest striker"

As it happens to him regularly, Anthony Lopes takes the strange course of striking Steve Mounié, thrown in front of him, rather than clearing a ball within his reach.

Jérôme Brisard, who will subsequently forget five big minutes of added time or even a possible penalty from Gautier Larsonneur on Memphis Depay, immediately whistles a rather logical penalty.

Well, except for Rudi Garcia, as you might expect.

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“I do not know if I am objective or if I am right, but I find that there is a fault of the attacker and not at all the penalty, estimates the Lyon coach.

I think Antho was afraid of being hurt.

He is the victim of his bad reputation, and since the media noise in Angers, we knew that we were going to take a penalty in this kind of situation.

"

OL's "triple mistake" on the Breton equalizer

History that the evening of the Portuguese international is until the end nightmarish, despite a brilliantly avoided 0-2 ball against Christian Battocchio (67th), the result is borderline funny.

Because Anthony Lopes blocks the penalty from Brendan Chardonnet and screams his rage, with several teammates jumping on him (90th + 2).

“This situation is bizarre,” says the Brest defender, immediately in check.

I wonder if the referee does not whistle a hand of a Lyon player in the grouping.

"

After that he clearly has a leg a meter in front, but the rule is impossible, especially with the video.

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A hypothesis also considered by the Brest coach Olivier Dall'Oglio.

But no, Jérôme Brisard had this crucial penalty withdrawn because Anthony Lopes had his feet very slightly in front of the goal line, while Marcelo had also entered the box very quickly.

Stade Brestois then changes shooters and Romain Faivre does not tremble to punish the Lyonnais (2-2, 90th + 3).

Finally, who is the main culprit of these "two points lost" by OL in a hyper tight Ligue 1 top?

Rudi Garcia has his opinion on the matter.

It's not just the referee who makes a mistake.

I am frustrated because we too are making a triple mistake: we must not play backwards, we must protect the ball, and Antho could shoot in before Mounié kicked in.

When we reverse the trend to lead 2-1, 11 against 10, and there are barely ten minutes left, the Brestois do not even have to approach our penalty area.

This is why we are really at fault.

The ball shouldn't have been there then.

"

Five midfielders available ... but Jason Denayer finished in number 6

And Jason Denayer, impeccable in central defense on Wednesday, shouldn't he have stayed in his position forever, rather than going through the middle (

remember

St. Petersburg…) in the 83rd minute?

The resolutely defensive change (Sinaly Diomandé instead of Bruno Guimaraes) is in any case a bad signal for a team then euphoric, carried forward, in numerical superiority, and with five pure midfielders available.

“For me, apart from Thiago Mendes [suspended after his expulsion on Sunday from the Parc des Princes], we don't really have a defensive midfielder, defends Rudi Garcia.

I needed Sinaly Diomandé's head game just in case.

Because at 2-1 to 11 against 10, it can normally just happen to us to suffer long balls and set pieces, if we do not make mistakes ourselves.

"

Six minutes before offering a poisoned gift to Anthony Lopes, “Mad Max” celebrated his goal with his partners Houssem Aouar, Rayan Cherki and Bruno Guimaraes.

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This condition was not met in the

money time 

by the doublet Maxwel Cornet-Anthony Lopes, and Irvin Cardona even failed to offer in extra time in Brest "the perfect heist" (according to Brendan Chardonnet).

The big blow against PSG (0-1), three days earlier, was partly wasted.

Between the amounts affected by Léo Dubois (58th), Memphis Depay and Tino Kadewere on the same action (77th), the 17 shots off target throughout the match, plus a long stereotypical and sterile attack, we could see that the evils of Lyon struggling in September were not such distant memories.

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