The game: 3-3
We don’t know what the rest of this 27th day of L1 will look like, but this Lille-Lyon was a spectacular start and full of suspense until the end, with this penalty awarded to Lille in the last seconds of added time before that Mr. Bastien changes his mind in front of the slow motions of the video screen and gives a card to Jonathan Bamba for simulation. The score, then, was 3-3 and the Lyonnais had come back from afar, trailing 0-2 then 1-3, overtaken by the formidable efficiency of Jonathan David, triple scorer. But the return of Alexandre Lacazette was good and the former Gunner’s double saved OL from yet another bad start.
It was an evening where it was not very serious to arrive late, because nothing happened, or almost, in the first period before this festival in second, when the two teams finally decided to speed up, to indulge a little, and to score a lot. For 45 minutes, therefore, Lille had control but without efficiency, and Lyon suffered but obtained the clearest opportunity, when Bradley Barcola was taken over by Lucas Chevalier (12th).
The match was therefore completely carried away as soon as David returned from the locker room, when David gave the advantage to LOSC (46th) on a good cross from Bamba served by Cabella. And Lille seemed to have done the hardest part on the hour mark, when a penalty for a foul by Cherki on Gudmundsson, converted by David, gave them air. But Barcola allowed his team to reduce the score three minutes later, before three goals in the last ten minutes. First, David restored the lead to the Northerners on a new penalty following a hand from Lacazette in his area. The Guadeloupe caught up with a double, and the Lyonnais were rewarded following a good reaction and a successful end to the match, between the activity of Barcola and the good entry of Kumbedi.
The player: Lacazette, successful comeback
After a month of absence for a hamstring injury, Alexandre Lacazette was expected and he was on time for the appointment. Entering in the 72nd minute in place of Rayan Cherki, he had only twenty minutes in his legs but that was enough for him to be decisive three times, first in the wrong direction, when, in the wall, he spread his arm a little on a free kick from Cabella (78th). Then in the other area, on a fine header following a good cross from Kumbedi (83′), before a strike from the right which beat Chevalier (89′). That’s 16 goals this season for Lacazette in Ligue 1.
19
Scorer of a hat-trick, Jonathan David leads the L1 scoring charts with 19 goals, one more than Kylian Mbappé (18). With 53 goals, the Canadian is LOSC’s top scorer in the 21st century.
