OL sluggishly drew 0-0 against Le Havre. The face displayed remains satisfactory even if Fabio Grosso inevitably noticed that his future team was in great difficulty playing the game.
Present in the stands this Sunday evening for the match against Le Havre, Fabio Grosso has certainly spotted a lot of things in view of his taking office which will therefore take place this Monday. The Italian coach was able to see it quickly, his future team has doubts and the fact of being mistreated to this extent by a promoted person is not likely to reassure many people. The attack of theOL is still at half mast and it is not the form of Alexandre Lacazette, the club’s top scorer last season, which will change that. The “General” was coming off a two-match suspension, and with the international break, it had been a month without a match. A beginning of an explanation for his performance, which earned him a “3/10” in Le Progrès, with this pithy comment.
« Warned from the 5th to cut off a counter-attack, a completely unscrewed shot in the axis (20th) and otherwise nothing for the Lyon captain », Explains the regional daily. Lacazette still saw his trainer for the night, Jean-François Vulliez, defend him sharply. “ Alexandre needs confidence. It was a return after a month off with his two suspension matches. He works a lot, he has not lost his qualities. To be honest, I was hoping to see him score… », explained the Lyon technician, who can still be satisfied with the combativeness displayed by his troops, even if everything was not perfect.
Mata in the axis, the good news
On the other hand, the defense held up, which was not given with the withdrawals of Duje Caleta-Car and Dejan Lovren. But the Clinton Mata find in the axis gave satisfaction. Enough to reassure the interim coaches of their desire to work on a solid block, even if this did not make it possible to function on both surfaces. “ The players wanted so much to be balanced and to defend well, that they perhaps did not have the ability to go higher”, explained Vulliez after the match, just to remind us that OL were still in the middle of a whirlwind, and could not yet be effective on both surfaces. This will be one of the many jobs of Fabio Grosso, who will take charge of the Lyon team from this Monday.
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