if OL lose, they will say goodbye to the Champions League, announces Florian Gazan
Every Saturday in RTL’s 7 a.m. newspaper, Florian Gazan embarks on a football bet with humor, irony, provocation, discrepancy but always with information. Saturday January 22, 2022, he announces it in his “Big odds”: “despite Lyon’s jump against Marseille at the start of the week, if OL lose in Monaco they will be able to say goodbye to the Champions League next season” .
However, after this 23rd day of the championship, there are 48 points left to distribute, while OL are 6 points from the podium. “But possibly at 9 in the event of defeat, retorts the columnist. And then I can also tell you that mathematically, the last in Ligue 1, Saint-Étienne, can still be champion if he scores 48 points and PSG none. But hey, it’s like Sunny Monday of Claude François, ‘it’s something we’ll never have'”.
“And Lyon on the podium, synonymous with a ticket for the 2022-2023 Champions League, it’s something that we may not have,” continues Florian Gazan, as has happened for two seasons – which doesn’t Happened since 1999, at that time Twitter did not exist and suddenly Jean-Michel Aulas must have had a lot of free time. We say ‘never two without three’, but there, sportingly and financially, it would be the ‘catastrophe’ for OL“.
For 10 years, 61 points in the final in Ligue 1, it’s 5th at best
Florian Gazan
“To prevent this from happening, Lyon went all out, and even the Paqueta, during this winter transfer window. He took 42 million euros + bonus by selling his Brazilian midfielder Bruno Guimaraes to Newcastle, and recovered two instead: the Brestois Romain Faivre and the international Tanguy Ndombele, whom OL had sold 70 million to Tottenham three years ago and he is lent for free. I admit, there, hat Jean-Mimi“.
In 2016, Lyon had 4 points less than currently and had finished 2nd in Ligue 1. “Exception which confirms the rule, replies Florian Gazan. The numbers are stubborn. I have looked: for 10 years, so that the OL finish on the podium, they had to have at least 43 points at this time of the season.There, it’s 34: they are missing 9. Another worrying element, over the last 10 seasons, between now and the end of the championship, Lyon have taken an average of 27 points. 34 + 27, that’s 61 points in the end. And for 10 years, 61 points in the final in Ligue 1, it’s 5th at best”.