• Olympique Lyonnais chained a fourth victory in a row at home on Saturday evening, with the key to a demonstration against Angers (5-0).

  • Synonymous with a provisional place on the Ligue 1 podium, this resounding success allows Peter Bosz and his men to aim for a completely different course than in 2021-2022.

  • The Lyon players, so accustomed to leaving points on the way against poorly ranked players, are trying to understand this crying change in "mentality".

At OL Park,

While spinning in the mixed zone on Saturday evening, we found Paul Bernardoni staring into space, sitting at the foot of his team's bus to eat his pasta box.

Thirty minutes earlier, the Angevin goalkeeper conceded Lyon's fifth and final goal, a tight angle shot from Moussa Dembélé as long as it took, the epilogue of a nightmarish match for SCO at Parc OL (5-0).

Although moderately filled (39,586 spectators), the enclosure decinoise on the contrary rocked in a euphoria that we did not imagine for such an appointment, especially after a first half-hour (0-0).



But this Year II of the Peter Bosz era in Lyon releases something, starting with a real seriousness to complete an impeccable 4/4 at home this summer against poorly ranked in power (Ajaccio, Troyes, Auxerre and therefore Angers).

It's simple, the Dutch coach had to wait until the 9th day last year to see his group collect 13 points, a total this time already validated in five games, with a third place in Ligue 1 at stake.

Day and night with his first two months in 2021, marked by a scary record of 7 points out of 18 against the six opponents in the second part of the table faced.

Parc OL rediscovers ola

“We had trouble against these teams last year, we got hooked, admits Lyon midfielder Romain Faivre.

There, I don't really know how to explain it, but we are doing a full house.

We put racing and intensity into everything we did.

Individualities serve the collective.

We had a great time, and I think everyone had fun tonight at the stadium.

There is a new momentum and a new mentality at the start of the season.

“Once the match was unlocked thanks to Karl Toko Ekambi (1-0, 32nd), OL did almost everything well.

First

clean sheet

of the season, ability to get used cars like never last season against a low block (in 5-3-2), and therefore in the end a demonstration which had only one equivalent in 2021-22 (6-1 against Bordeaux last April).

How then to explain such a contrast in a few months in the approach of an appointment a priori hardly

funky

against a "small", and closed on Saturday with a ola that we had not seen for an eternity at the Parc OL?


“There is this desire not to lose no matter what”

“We know that we lost a lot of points against this kind of team and that we lacked consistency, indicates Castello Lukeba, author of the fourth goal on Saturday [4-0, 62nd].

This season, we are correcting that so far.

We are more rigorous, more focused.

We all have the same vision, with the desire to press high and recover the ball to quickly project ourselves.

We know that we should not underestimate these teams but on the contrary kill the entry matches.

“A speech that Corentin Tolisso held two months ago during his presentation to the press, based on his five years lived within the immense Bayern Munich.

However, the Lyon environment refuses to take responsibility for this quasi-metamorphosis.

"No, it's not from me.

It's a daily job: in training, there is this desire not to lose no matter what when you play small games.

It is transcribed on the ground, even when we find ourselves led like in Reims [1-0, 1-1 in the end].

This is the mentality you need to have.

Above all, we must not relax and think the match is over at 1-0 or 2-0.

It's up to us to try to put the 3rd, the 4th, or even the 5th like this evening.

It is this mentality that you need to have if you want to go far this season.

»

Word of five-time German champion and winner of the 2020 Champions League, who enjoyed "the team's full match" on Saturday.

By consulting the Ligue 1 rankings this Sunday morning, Peter Bosz will take a liking, like his players, to this place in the Top 5, he who had never been better placed than 6th in 2021-2022 (only three times ).

Corentin Tolisso insists on this subject, with determination: “We are Olympique Lyonnais, we have to be at the top of the rankings”.

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