Mastiffs can bite their fingers.
Two years after a double humiliation in the Champions League, Lille came close to winning their duel at Ajax Amsterdam in the Europa League.
Timothy Weah opened the scoring against the run of the game but Ajax Amsterdam ended up finding their way to the goal thanks to a penalty from Tadic and a goal from Brobbey.
Lille were well into their round of 16.
The Slovakian referee of the match, Ivan Kruzliak, could even have awarded a penalty at the start of the match for a contentious contact on Jonathan David (5th).
The speed of wingers Weah and Bamba, helped by prominent Jonathan David and Yusuf Yazici, posed problems for the Amsterdam defense at the start of the match.
However, the first strike on target is to the credit of Ajax.
A strike from Antony at the entrance to the Lille area is easily picked up by Maignan while the Dutch gradually regain the ascendancy by breaking the Lille lines.
The Lille goalkeeper saves his family again thanks to an exit in the feet of Antony a few moments later (28th).
LOSC leaves the ball
One statistic sums up the difficulties of LOSC: at the break, the Ajacides had the ball 69% of the time.
Did Christophe Gatlhier find the words in the locker room?
Still, on the return to the lawn, the Mastiffs manage to better resist pressure from Ajax and launch offensives thanks to a very restless Timothy Weah.
He failed to be the source of an opening scoring when, after making the difference on his right side, he sent a low center.
Sketelenburg is beaten but David cannot resume (53rd).
But the domination, although sterile, remains ajacid but without concretization.
The ball refuses to cross the Lille goal line.
Neres misses the inevitable four meters from the cage of Maignan, after a shift of Klaassen in front of the Lille goalkeeper.
The absence of Sébastien Haller, the Ivorian striker recruited at the gold price this winter but not authorized to play in the Europa League for an administrative error, is sorely felt.
A lack of realism that will pay for a defensive error: under pressure from Celik, Tagliafico must make a back pass to his goalkeeper.
Timothy Weah intercepts and deceives Sketelenburg from a small bridge (72nd, 1-0).
A reversal at the end of the match
A few minutes from the end of regulation time, Tagliafico tries to be forgiven by causing a penalty.
Despite Lille's protests, the VAR confirms the referee's decision and Tadic transforms with a perfect counter-foot (87th, 1-1) Then, Brobbey doubles the bet, perfectly launched by Brobbey in the axis (89th, 1 -2).
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