Tops / Flops Lyon-Wolfsburg: Cascarino the poison, German impotence

TOPS

The poison Delphine Cascarino

Elected player of the match even without having scored, Delphine Cascarino demonstrated, during this final, these immense qualities, but also her small flaws. Untenable on her right side, the 23-year-old was quite simply the source of Lyon's first two goals signed Le Sommer (25th) and Kumagai (44th). It also caused the exit on injury of his vis-à-vis, sickened by his incessant dribbling. Her percussion capacity is hardly equal in current women's football. Only downside, it still tends too much to conclude its actions badly, as was the case during a second half less exciting than the first.  

The eternal Eugenie Le Sommer

At 31, the Lyon striker continues to enrich an incredible track record with now a 7th Champions League, in which she greatly participated by scoring the first goal of the game, before very involuntarily offering the third and last Rhone goal at Gunnarsdottir. Repositioned at the forefront because of the absences of each other, Le Sommer confirmed that this role suited her well, she who would have liked to evolve in this role in the France team. In vain. But after this final, perhaps Corinne Deacon, the coach of the Bleues, will change her mind. Or maybe not ...

Lyon's wealth

For this final, Jean-Luc Vasseur, the coach of OL, had to compose without Amandine Henry, his hub of the midfielder injured in the quarter-finals and who just made presence on the scoresheet. Without his star Ada Hegerberg, who scored a hat-trick last season in the Champions League final against Barcelona (4-1). Without the natural replacement of the Norwegian, Nikita Paris, and without Griedge Mbock, the perfect complement in defense of Wendie Renard. For comparison, it would be like seeing PSG play without Neymar, Mbappé, Verratti and Kimpembe. So not easy. Except for this Lyon team which has 1001 talents.

FLOPS

A less controlled second period

Let's be honest, at the break, nobody imagined Lyon losing this final. With two goals ahead, the Lyonnaises had demonstrated against the Germans without a spring. And then all it took was a defensive error, a lack of communication between Bouhaddi and Buchanan, to revive both the suspense and Wolfsburg. Behind, OL will have floated for a quarter of an hour, losing too many balls due to technical approximations and leaving the Germans to hope while several counter situations should have ended better.        

Germans too harmless

If Wolfsburg will have had the merit of pushing the suspense until two minutes from the end of regulation time, the German club will however have struggled to be dangerous. One statistic illustrates this: the number of shots on target, numbering only one, Popp's header which hit the target. 100% realism, but also 100% powerlessness to bring danger to Bouhaddi's goal.

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