• Struck six days earlier after conceding a mysterious defeat in Nice (0-2 to 3-2), OL got back to their place on Saturday by beating RC Lens (2-1).

  • As Peter Bosz has repeatedly said, his players were not very convincing in the game, but they were able to win a crucial match.

  • Lensois playmaker Gaël Kakuta points to the flaws he spotted in this Lyon team.

At Parc OL,

Of the 50,373 spectators present at the Parc OL on Saturday evening, were there even a dozen to calmly experience the end of the match against RC Lens (2-1)? Nothing is less certain, so much the Lyon supporters went through the second act freaking out, six days after the disastrous finish of the match in Nice (from 0-2 to the 80th at 3-2). “We know that we have to work on this, assumes Anthony Lopes, ultra-decisive with seven stops on Saturday night. We have a game that requires a lot of energy and we risk fishing physically. It's up to us to see how we should behave. You have to know how to undergo and retreat at times. There, we were able to unite all together. We have all been united in order to close as little space as possible. "

After Arnaud Kalimuendo's goal (2-1, 61st), all of Parc OL feared an outcome heavy with consequences, while the group of Peter Bosz has already dropped eight points en route in the last 10 minutes of the matches.

No, Jérôme Boateng and Léo Dubois may have gone out with injury in the 78th minute of play, the Rhone defense this time held up.

So that the Lyonnais (5th), who could have been dropped eight points from their direct opponent in the evening, are now only two lengths behind the dolphin of PSG.

"It can be a click match"

“A real relief” for Peter Bosz, whose undeniable influence on the evolution of the Lyon game had not yet materialized at the accounting level. : "We defended well together, in a compact manner, with a very good goalkeeper, who made an exceptional save against Kakuta", underlines the Dutch coach of OL. He is aware of the paradox of the evening: “In the first period, we lost many easy balls. Normally, we play much better than today ”. Certainly, but at the same time, the Lyonnais are finally back in the lead in the race for the podium. Houssem Aouar engages.

Last week in Nice, we had played well but we had cracked in the last minutes.

After this match, we said to ourselves that we had to be much more united at the end, when we were being mistreated.

We did it tonight and it could be a click game.

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"We knew how to hurt them on several occasions"

The rich program that is announced (reception of Sparta Prague on Thursday, trip to Rennes on Sunday) will confirm this (or not).

A privileged witness, the evening joker, launched at the break, Gaël Kakuta, enters the evening's reflection with a deep decryption of the qualities and faults of this Lyon group.

"I watched the match from the bench in the first period and I said to myself that faced with a team that presses high and wants to quickly recover the ball, I had to quickly put some rhythm into each time I am touched, says the 30-year-old playmaker.

It worked for me and I think we gave them a lot of problems.

We even knew how to hurt them on several occasions.

Either, except on the billboard, where OL finally had the last word.

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