Olympique Lyonnais finds West Ham this Thursday (9 p.m.) in the quarter-final second leg of the Europa League. After the draw in the first leg (1-1), Raymond Domenech is very pessimistic for the Lyonnais and their end to the season.
Domenech is pessimistic for the end of the Lyon season
This Thursday (9 p.m.), Olympique Lyonnais is playing its European future. In the immediate future, there is a place in the semi-finals of the Europa League to win. But the Rhone club is also looking further.
Because, 10th in Ligue 1 seven days from the end, Lyon almost said goodbye to qualifying for the European Cup thanks to the championship. And a crown in C3 would allow him to participate in a European competition next season.
Domenech does not see Lyon winning at home
For Raymond Domenech, the Europa League is Lyon’s last hope of being European next season. But the former coach of the France team does not really believe following the draw once morest West Ham in the first leg (1-1). It’s the last option and I’m more than pessimistic regarding their ability to qualify once morest West Ham even though they’ve been pretty solid so far. Given what happened in the first leg, I’m not sure they can win at home where they are the worst performers estimated the technician for Ouest-France.
Despite a numerical superiority throughout the second period, the Gones had not managed to win once morest the London formation in the first leg. Will Peter Bosz’s players be more effective in a Groupama Stadium that has won over their cause? Domenech worries above all for the defense. Their permanent defensive fragility and this lack of athletic impact worries me. For a European Cup match, OL currently seems fragile to me , he judges. Before adding: Lyon must finally have effective offensives and above all regain serenity and solidity in defense .
R. Domenech – one moment we are overtaken by his level
Former player (1970-1977) and coach (1988-1993) of Lyon, Domenech is generally behind the Gones. But, this time, the ex-coach of Nantes is quite desperate: We have the right to dream but for a moment we are overtaken by our level and what we produce. At the moment, I find that they don’t produce much. (…) This season, it’s a little bit wrong. They have a fragile defense, static midfielders with the ball and clumsy attackers who do not weigh on the opposing defences.
The Lyonnais will try to make Domenech lie tonight to give themselves new European thrills and give hope to a possible end to the season in a cannonball. I am Lyonnais, I would like to believe it but I see the matches and I am lucid. I don’t see why, all of a sudden, this team, which has been on the same basis since September, would become very collective, solid and generous. , launched the 70-year-old man, fatalistic. Let’s hope, for OL, that the fans expected at Groupama Stadium will show more enthusiasm to support their proteges, who will have to make do without goalkeeper Anthony Lopes or attacking midfielder Lucas Paqueta.
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