2023-09-24 10:22:37
Alexandre Lacazette against Brest on Saturday evening. Jeremias Gonzalez / PANORAMIC
DECRYPTAGE – Catastrophic against Brest on Saturday evening (1-0), Olympique Lyonnais has a series of calamitous outings and has still not won a match in Ligue 1. The crisis is deep.
Eyes directed towards the ground, head tucked into his shoulders and breathing that speaks volumes to avoid revealing the depths of his thoughts. Alexandre Lacazette was affected on Saturday evening when he appeared in front of the Canal + cameras after the defeat against Brest (1-0). After 6 days, Olympique Lyonnais is in a pathetic 16th place, without any victory to its credit (2 draws, 4 defeats) and the change of coach (Grosso for Blanc) had no effect, for the moment. OL is a boat adrift, without a specific project, without a leader worthy of the name and without a team that matches its ambitions. At each meeting, in the ambient doldrums, the individuals supposed to carry the collective disintegrate, like the football mush rendered against the Brestois.
« We play with fear, given the situation, it’s complicatedattests Lacazette, who also missed out on his match against the astonishing Brestois, leaders of Ligue 1 on Saturday evening. I’m going to be careful what I say, because I don’t want to slip up on live TV. But it repeats itself, it’s always the same, we say things to each other in the locker room and we still do the same things on the pitch. It is not easy. It’s up to us to find solutions from within… »
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Certain executives absent, recruits in the adaptation phase, a new coach arriving, the crisis behind the scenes… the picture for OL is catastrophic
Fabio Grosso tried things by switching to 4-3-3, with Cherki placed on the substitutes’ bench and wingers (Nuamah-Moreira) responsible for livening up the corridors. But OL plunged into Brittany, completely absent from the debates. “ We didn’t know how to play football, we suffered from start to finishadvances Maxence Caqueret who is only a shadow of himself in the midfield. Once again, this is unacceptable, I can’t say anything else. It’s a crisis, we haven’t won a single match, there’s a big problem. It’s up to us to change things, because we can’t continue like this. » Words, again and again, but no perceptible change on the ground.
Impossible to condemn Fabio Grosso, who led his first match after Laurent Blanc was sidelined, but Lyon’s problem seems much deeper. From managers to technicians, including players, Lyon is in for a difficult season, unless there is collective awareness. Between an overrated workforce, management elements installed in a context that is far too comfortable and recruits still in the adaptation phase, OL is difficult to see. Not to mention the deleterious atmosphere behind the scenes with the counterproductive exchanges, via media, between the new management and Jean-Michel Aulas. Sunday morning, Lyon is already 11 points (pending today’s matches) behind the leader… Brest. The ambitions for the start of the season and a return to the Champions League are already very distant. Not to say utopian. Before dreaming of reaching the top of the table, you must already think about winning a match after such a rotten summer.
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