2023-11-05 16:33:24
And to think that the afternoon could have been worse, much worse. 5 minutes before the end of this meeting against Metz, Lyon was, once again, with its back to the wall, completely defeated after having conceded an exceptional goal from Ablie Jallow and led by Grenats in a match which they nevertheless dominated comfortably. In the end, Les Gones managed to come back, to collect a draw which tasted like a victory even if, after 10 matches played, they still have none and only have four points to their name in Ligue 1, including they are dead last.
“Objective: maintenance”, could we read on the huge banner displayed by the Lyon supporters at the start of the match. And this is indeed the scenario that is emerging for Fabio Grosso, back on the sidelines a week after being seriously injured in the face in the stone crushing of the Lyon bus in Marseille, and his men. The stands could have dropped this banner to exult in the 30th second of play, but Mama Baldé’s face-to-face with Alexandre Oukidja, who left at the very start of the match due to injury, was horribly poorly negotiated by the Bissaoguinean.
The Lyonnais, overall, dominated the debates in a very dull match, before the opening of the score by Jallow, with a superb sequence of control behind the supporting foot-hit post returning from the left, electrified the end of match (0-1, 77th). In addition to Baldé’s terrible miss, Lyon thought they could open the score but a save on their line from Dietsch, Oukidja’s replacement, deprived Lacazette of the pleasure (52nd). Faced with the generosity of Lyon’s five-man defense, Metz (40th, 42nd) also had its share of opportunities.
In the end, it was the young Skelly Alvero (21 years old) who saved Lyon from a more serious, deeper, more depressing crisis. The beautiful strike from the left of the player trained at Sochaux (1-1, 84th) offered the Lyonnais the least worst of the scenarios. It is, unfortunately, still not the best.
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