Mata assures that the supporters “won’t give up on us”

OL supporters in May 2023 against Monaco (Photo by JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP)

On Sunday, OL conceded a draw (0-0) against Le Havre. Despite the performance and the two points in five games, the supporters showed their encouragement. A positive point for the locker room to get back on track.

Two weeks passed between OL’s two home games. Before the match against Le Havrewe left the Lyon players stoic in front of the Virage Nord stand at listen to the capo of the KVN send a message to them after the defeat against PSG (1-4). Faced with the sporting crisis at the start of the season, the group of supporters chose to strike hard with this scene which went around social networks and the world itself. Some may have mocked it, but the message was one of awareness in order to rectify a situation very far from Lyon’s standards. The leaders were called to rebel and take advantage of the truce to breathe new life into OL.

It’s up to the players to “do the work now”

The two weeks of break did not necessarily erase everything. By conceding a draw against Le Havre (0-0) Sunday, the Lyon club continues to tread water at the bottom of the table with two small dots in five matches. If there were necessarily a few whistles at the end of the match because of the result, applause ultimately accompanied the arrival of the players and Jean-François I wanted facing the two turns.

The change in atmosphere was appreciated by the Lyon locker room. “I understood them after the match against PSG, Clinton said. Women following the draw against promoted Le Havre. This (Sunday) evening, they saw that we had given everything, they were disappointed, which is normal, but they were more lenient, they told us that they would not give up on us and that is positive for us . It’s up to us to do the work now.”

With Fabio Grosso now at the head, theOL will try to grab its first victory of the season at BrestSaturday (9 p.m.).