Football (Ligue 1, 32e journée) : Lyon / Bordeaux (6-1) : Quand les cloches de Pâques sonnent le glas… – ARL
April 17, 2022
The Easter bells will therefore have rung much louder than expected on this Sunday, in the quasi-religious atmosphere of the Parc OL, emptied of some of its supporters who had boycotted the event. It remains to be seen what bells they were, and in what sense to take the term… For the 7th time this season, after Nice, Monaco, Strasbourg, Rennes, Reims and Paris, Bordeaux sank body and soul, weighed down by a monumental blunder from Poussin, but beaten in all areas of the game and promised anyway to an inevitable beating, against an OL who will have played a training match or almost to forget their European avatars, their attackers giving to their heart’s content with two doubles from Dembélé and Toko-Ekambi and… two others but refused for offside, plus a post. Otherwise the carnage would have been even worse. This first volley of green wood under the Guion era, which earned Bordeaux to seize again the hated scepter of the worst defense in Europe (77 goals) held until then by Greuther Fürth, last in the Bundesliga (72), dashed the hopes seen against Metz and Lille and put its players in an ultimate situation of leaving or double this Wednesday against the Greens, certainly not flamboyant, but more voluntary than ever, 24 hours earlier against Brest (2-1). The only good news of the day comes despite everything from the others, since Metz and Clermont neutralized each other (1-1) and Lorient narrowly lost in Nice (2-1). For the rest, we will have to find the time to go to Lourdes by Wednesday. But during the Easter period, it can be beneficial since Easter is after all only the celebration of a Resurrection…
We wondered which OL we would see the day after the London slap. We would have done better to ask ourselves which Bordeaux we were going to see between Saône and Rhône, we would have fallen from less height. After this painful, but umpteenth return to square one against a diminished OL (Lopes and Dubois absent, Denayer injured in the warm-up and replaced at the last minute by Da Silva) who will have played a pleasant training match – and c This is indeed the most serious – without ever having needed to raise the level or the pace as his prey had nothing comparable to the formidable Englishmen of Thursday, one can reasonably ask the question of the involvement of this team and of his desire to make common cause around a single objective, the maintenance of a monument of French football in Ligue 1, which looks more and more like pious hope as the matches follow one another. Beyond the individual errors which no doubt amplified the disaster, but whose remanence ended up making us philosophers, the flat encephalogram of this group at the first shot of Trafalgar comes dizzying with anxiety, when we compare it to that from Saint-Etienne yet they too were very close to being ridiculous in Lorient a week ago (6-2 after leading 2-0), but more vigorous and determined than ever against Brest the following Saturday, carried by an admirable and ultimately indulgent public or not resentful. The Forézian dynamic, at the moment when we are writing these lines, is the opposite of that of the Marine et Blanc. If we are only consumed by this observation, there would not even be a photo for this Wednesday’s match at the Matmut and it would be better to go and burn a candle than to go to Bordeaux Lac and thus miss the televised presidential debate, judiciously programmed at the same time. Fortunately, the truth of one match is rarely that of the next, especially this season. Nevertheless, by dint of clinging to these old adages, we will end up not seeing the bus arrive in the middle of a buffet, which still seems to be the case for some players, according to their staggering declarations at the microphone of Premium Video after the match. “Everything is fine, there is nothing to worry about” (sic). Excuse us for being paranoid then, and for decelerating a peril in the house which has no place to be. Probably because one of the video assistants for this match was none other than Bruno Coué, whose illustrious ascendant must have bequeathed to Research the method bearing his name…
A Lyon and sheep
Bruno Coué and his partner in the video booth, the ineffable Ruddy Buquet, did not have much work to do in this match, as the scenario and the duels were clear and unequal, cutting short any physical challenge and therefore to all uncertainties. At most, they followed in the footsteps of assistant referee M. Pasqualotti when the latter, rightly, raised his flag twice to invalidate two successes by Moussa Dembélé (9th then 64th), marred by offside , in a scenario that could have recalled that of the match in Lille and its happy outcome if the content offered by the Girondins had been identical. Alas, we were very far from it and despite the three-man defense renewed by Guion, but this time with Guilavogui as a sentinel in front of it and an association Ahmedhodzic / Medioub which very quickly turned into the wrong choice, the Girondins, immediately confined in their camp by a fairly high-placed Lyon block, looked more like lost sheep promises at the feast of a Lyon yet not very hungry, but in search of redemption and anxious to restore its standing chipped by the Hammers. So came the first banderilla of Les Gones in the form of a rise of Henrique (the first of a long series both the Lyon left side, like his vis-à-vis the right wing Malo Gusto, was going to benefit from absolute freedom of maneuver throughout the match without ever finding anyone to close the corridor) who launched Dembelé but went offside by a good meter before going to challenge Poussin. It was only a postponement: after Guilavogui with a header had taken over a corner obtained by Onana and shot from the right by Adli (14th), OL were not going to let the Girondins hope for a second cleaning for long. sheet, especially since he had always scored in 24 of his last 25 productions in his lair. This was still the case on this rise of Gusto not attacked who rolled up a cross with a line on Dembelé who easily outstripped a very late Medioub by uncrossing his head out of reach of Poussin (1-0, 20th), registering his 13th but of the season, which looked like a brother to that registered in Matmut by the messin Lamkel Zé on a cross from De Préville.
Poussin’s chistera
Then came the but cap of the day, which has a good chance of going around the canvas and bloopers, on a back pass from Mensah for Poussin. The Bordeaux goalkeeper, not very happy on two of his previous raises which had ended in touch, completely unscrewed and hit next to the ball, to the delight of Toko Ekambi who had just come to the dry cleaners for form and who did not ask for it. so much… (2-0, 28th). Two shots on target including a gift, two goals for the Rhodaniens. From then on, it seemed highly probable that the Girondins, who did not exist offensively and even had difficulty crossing the median without giving the ball to their hosts, had met all the parameters for a Bis repetita in spite of themselves… sorry: Ter repeated shipwrecks in Rennes and then in Reims. On a new poisoned ball from Gusto, Ahmedhodzic and Mangas panicked within 6 meters before releasing the ball in extremis (30th). The calls in depth of the Lyonnais were not controlled by the Girondins, in the deliquescent midfield where Adli and Onana lost in stride as many balls as they recovered, and it is on one of them, by Toko Ekambi on a free kick from the central circle, which Ahmedhodzic conceded a corner in disaster. On this one, shot from the right by Thiago Mendes, Poussin sent the ball back to the ground with his fist, but in the middle of 3 Lyonnais without a single Bordeaux player 3 meters away. It was finally Paqueta with the flat of the left foot, despite the return of Mensah who tackled in the void, who finished the job at 10 meters, like at the fair (3-0, 34th). At this rate of 3 goals in 14 minutes, already “applied” other times this season by the Girondins, notably in Nice, Strasbourg or Rennes, one could fear the worst for a team knocked out. Dembélé still put her under pressure with two tumbles (37th, 39th), and set pieces (corner or free kicks) continued to pose a threat to the Girondin goal. But it was as soon as the restart (another great “standard” of the Girondins this season) that Bordeaux would hit rock bottom, just 10 seconds after the commitment made by Paqueta who immediately launched Dembelé, who sank absolutely alone without meeting the less opposition on the left flank of a defense transformed into a statue of salt, before serving Faivre with a ball stung at the penalty spot, whose control / volley sequence from the right in the skylight of Poussin was surely the most beautiful but in the afternoon (4-0, 46th), even if the incredible Gironde passivity on returning from the locker room on this action was undoubtedly the highest proof of his distress, or his casualness. From then on, the meeting, already played on a senator’s train despite Lyon’s accelerations sufficient to score with almost every offensive, turned into a training match for OL, the first surprise of such a windfall, which he was not going to deprive. We had to wait until the 53rd minute to witness the first Girondin shot on target of the match, the work of Hwang-Ui-Jo whose sudden and languid strike, from 20 meters, prevented Pollersbeck from catching a cold despite the ambient mildness. On the counter, the side Henrique on a new rise without opposition and on receiving a center from Faivre, rushed a little and hesitated instead of hitting, finally the first post of Poussin, yet far from having closed the angle.
Listen to the post-match reactions at the microphone of Christophe Monzie who commented on this full live meeting from Groupama Stadium “Parc OL” in Lyon-Décines alongside Laurent Brun.
reaction of Romain FAIVRELyon striker and author of the 4th but after 10 seconds of play in the second half.
reaction of David Guionthe coach of FC Girondins de Bordeaux.
reaction of Jean-Michel AULASPresident of Olympique Lyonnais.
reaction of Gaetan POUSSINgoalkeeper of FC Girondins de Bordeaux.
reaction of Pierre BOSZthe coach of Olympique Lyonnais.