Like his entire team, Memphis Depay, well surrounded here by Diallo and Kimpembe, was far from having his usual influence on Sunday.

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  • OL sank spectacularly on Sunday when they received PSG, wide winner (2-4) and now leader of Ligue 1.

  • Despite a very late reaction driven by his entrants, the current third in Ligue 1 sees AS Monaco (4th) dangerously back to one point in the standings.

  • Anthony Lopes went there with his rant after the meeting, calling the first hour of play “unacceptable”.

At Parc OL,

Anthony Lopes staring into the void of a bad night, Memphis Depay and Karl Toko Ekambi arguing in the center circle before putting the ball back into play, once again.

To concede a goal built by Presnel Kimpembe and Marquinhos, and brilliantly concluded by a third defensive player, Danilo Pereira (0-2, 32nd), it was already too much for a Lyon out of the game.

Since November 2016 with Bruno Genesio (1-2), OL (3rd) had never been so outclassed in all areas by PSG in Ligue 1 in their den, during the entire first period.

From Mattia De Sciglio to Tino Kadewere and Karl Toko Ekambi, everyone drowned in a summit that could offer the championship lead to the Lyonnais, with eight days remaining.

This prospect of a first coronation in L1 within reach for 13 years has not been relevant for a long time as Paris and his arrow Kylian Mbappé have crunched this OL (0-4 in the 51st, 2-4 in the end ), yet so conqueror three months earlier at the Parc des Princes (0-1).

So why did Rudi Garcia not approach this shock with the same ambitions of high recovery and sharp direct play?

"It was not possible to reproduce the first leg"

“You will have noticed that in the first leg, the Parisians had played three behind with a sentry [in 3-5-2], slips the person concerned.

They played completely differently tonight, and what we did in the first leg was not possible to reproduce there.

It is not a problem of organization or game plan but a problem of lack of athletic impact.

"OK, so according to Rudi Garcia, the 4-2-3-1 dear to Mauricio Pochettino therefore prevents all opponents from setting up a pressing worthy of the name, as has just been done on the Lyon side in the 19th minute, with to conclude a big sole of Karl Toko Ekambi on Marco Verratti.

Anthony Lopes played his leadership role on Sunday by lambasting his team's non-match.

We didn't exist at all for 60 minutes, we were knocked out.

To do what we did there is unacceptable.

We tried to be less ridiculous at the end by scoring these two nice goals.

We will have to move on and rectify everything that needs to be rectified.

We know it, it's been a while since we played a full game, at a very high level.

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"We left them alone too much"

Most often sluggish in 2021, royal derby aside (0-5), OL therefore paid a heavy price on Sunday for its chronic inconsistency.

A feeling confirmed by Maxence Caqueret at the microphone of Canal +: “It was a very good team from Paris, but we must not hide behind that.

We didn't play the game we needed, especially in the first half when we left them too much alone.

At the start of the second, we take two goals, that's not acceptable ”.

The first goal in Ligue 1 under the Lyon shirt of Islam Slimani was a very rare brightening of the gloomy Lyon evening.

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The entries into play of Islam Slimani (scorer in the 62nd minute, 1-4), Rayan Cherki (decisive passer for Maxwel Cornet in the 81st, 2-4) or even Bruno Guimaraes and Léo Dubois, have slightly enlightened the Lyon rout.

The sequence against Losc and AS Monaco (34th and 35th days) promises to be perilous to preserve a place on the podium.

For a season without the European Cup and with such a dense workforce, that would be a hell of a poor performance.

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