• Surprised by the Nice replacements after having led the match for a long time, the Lyon players feel they have lost their nerves.

  • Goalkeeper Anthony Lopes evokes "total mental bankruptcy" and defender Léo Dubois believes that the team has "gone wild".

At the Allianz Riviera (Nice),

The shock was severe for Lyon. Leaders 2-0 until the 80th minute against Nice, this Sunday afternoon, Aulas' men were then completely overtaken, even overwhelmed, until they lost 2 goals to 3. Goalkeeper Anthony Lopes evokes a "total mental bankruptcy" and the defender Léo Dubois believes that the team has "gone wild". "We can only blame ourselves," says Peter Bosz.

“We were dominant, we played well for eighty minutes.

But a match does not end at that time, ”conceded the OL coach after this stunning meeting.

And to concede: "the responsibilities are not in the circumstances, namely the schedule, the referee, but with us".

“We take a stupid goal by having badly defended.

There is a red card.

Then we take a penalty, it's the sixth of the season.

Everything is deserved.

There is nothing to say, the sanction was logical, ”he said.

"We have to control our emotions"

Surprised by the substitutes from Nice, decisive in the last minutes of the match, the players of Lyon above all have the impression of having lost their nerves.

“In the first half, we are ten times better than them.

We have control of the match and we go crazy.

We're completely off the hook.

I do not understand.

We must have a mental control on matches like that, released Léo Dubois at the microphone of Prime video.

We have to control our emotions, we have to grow mentally because that is not possible.

"

Everything was indeed very well started.

Lyon led without forcing.

Cameroonian Karl Toko Ekambi opened the scoring (0-1, 35th) by pressing after a first attempt rejected by the Nice goalkeeper.

Other missed opportunities followed before Houssem Aouar's second goal in the 68th minute.

And you could believe the match folded.

"We have to put our heads right side up"

But the three Nice goals, including one in stoppage time (90 + 2) came to shake everything.

In front of Lyonnais finally powerless.

“It's total mental bankruptcy,” said goalkeeper Anthony Lopes.

We collapsed after taking the first Nice goal.

Emotions are necessarily negative.

We have to put our heads right side up.

"

Olympique Lyonnais, ninth in L1, is now three points behind Nice and will have to make the difference, until the final whistle this time, against Lens.

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