The chaotic scenes seen at the end of the match at Groupama Stadium are like the season of Olympique Lyonnais.While Lyon has just been eliminated by West Ham in the quarter-final return of the Europa League, Thursday, April 14, (1-1, 0-3), several supporters descend from the stands to attack the stadiers behind the goalsAnd try to invade the lawn.The safety net is doing its job but the moment is striking: Lyon has come out without glory from the Europa League, humiliated by the Hammers, and will probably not have much to remember from its 2021-2022 exercise.
Incidents in the stands of Groupama Stadium after OL defeat against West Ham.
Les supporters lyonnais malmènent les barrières du stade, la sécurité est obligé de s'employer.peak.twitter.com/huxhakn1
Meanwhile, Lyon players quickly overshadowed the lawn, without a thank you gesture for supporters.Only Moussa Dembélé, evening captain, remains on the brink of the green rectangle to answer the broadcasters of the broadcasters.Obviously, the main interrogation relates to the Lyon hopes at the end of the season: eliminated from the Coupe de France, 10th in the ranking in Ligue 1 and far from the qualifying places for the European Cup, what can Lyon hope?
""The club had made this European Cup the priority goal,"" said Karl Toko Ekambi at a press conference after the match.As an admission of the fact that the Lyonnais dropped Ligue 1 a long time ago already.But by making ""carpet"" on the Europa League, Lyon was walking on a thread and fell.The awakening Friday morning risks being difficult, like the next championship games.
OL intermittent spectacle
Until then, Lyon crossed an enchanted parenthesis on the continental scene.Nine games, no defeat and the feeling that the Lyonnais were able to raise their level of play during the big European evenings.By winning the Europa League, of which he had reached the last square in 2017, Lyon was already qualified for the next edition of the Champions League.
Return to Earth will be complicated to live for OL, especially after this frustrating elimination against a West Ham Takenable team.On the outward journey, the Lyonnais has scuttled themselves and will long regret that they have not been able to make their opportunities.But even if OL managed to sublimate itself in the European Cup, the reality on the ground always ends up catching up the most dreamy.
The reality is that Lyon has been posted since the start of the season, for its club status which targets the first three places, a needy level in the league every weekend.""This return match is faithful to the rest of the season: they played 30 minutes and then it was over,"" complains Blaise, who came from Paris to attend the meeting.A team unable to chain three victories in a row in Ligue 1 can hardly plan to join the last square of a European competition.Even a quarter -final.
An elimination that could have heavy consequences
But Lyon had managed to climb to this stage of the competition, as if in a miracle, and was already starting to dream.""I had a vision.I think it's good, ""said Jean-Michel Aulas in the end of March.Two weeks later, the president of OL is in an embarrassing situation: he had already posed an ultimatum in Peter Bosz earlier in the season.How could the Dutch coach remain, after such a disappointment and a failed year in large widths?Bosz explained after the match not to feel like he was ""threatened"".
On the workforce side, this elimination obviously calls for changes.No leader appeared on Thursday evening when OL was flowing on the lawn of Groupama Stadium.The players were targeted at the end of the game by the supporters who released two banners against them: ""Move the C ..."", ""Are you going to ....."".Until then Cléments and present behind their team, with the hope of winning the Europa League, the Lyon supporters could well turn around at the end of the season.Like the many whistles that came down from the stands at the end of the match.
-3-Beaten by West Ham (0-3), Lyon underwent his Co-Plus Large defeat at European competition after those against Mönchengladbach in 1974 (2-5), at Rangers in 2007 (0-3) andat Bayern Munich in 2010 (0-3).Camouflet. #OLWHUpeak.twitter.com/49bnndqkgd
— OptaJean (@OptaJean) April 14, 2022""I don't have the words. Ce soir, le stade était le douzième homme mais malheureusement, il en manquait onze autres"", regrette Sylvain, membre du groupe Lyon 1950 et présent dans les travées du Groupama Stadium ce soir.How to soothe the emerging sling?Thanks to Ligue 1, according to Toko Ekambi. ""C’est par ces matchs de championnat qu’on va essayer de tirer quelque chose de cette saison"", a expliqué l’attaquant lyonnais après le match. ""Il va falloir une fin de saison extraordinaire"", a analysé Bosz en conférence de presse après la rencontre.
@Ol ns are all very sad of this elimination, like Barça, or https: // t.CO/YKAA2LTFD8 would be useless to penalize the club even more by reactions of hatred little related to sport: there are 7 games left to save 1 too difficult help the OL institution
— Jean-Michel AULAS (@JM_Aulas) April 14, 2022Lyon is only 5 points from 5th place, qualifying for the Europa League Conference.A thin hope when there are seven games to play in Ligue 1 remains. ""Je crois à une remontée parce que je suis supporter donc je vais suivre la fin de la saison et espérer qu’ils sauvent ce qui peut l’être en championnat"", soutient Blaise. Mais le supporter de l’OL ne veut pas oublier qu’il faut ""déjà préparer la suite"".Without erasing the content of a season decidedly more than disappointing.
