Invincible ! Unrivaled! Legendary! There are no more words to characterize the performance and undivided domination over Europe of the Lyonnaises. The girls dear to Jean-Michel Aulas have added an additional line to their already great story this Sunday evening in San Sebastian (Spain).
By overcoming (3-1) the Germans of Wolfsburg, which they found for the fourth time in the final of the Champions League, the young ladies of OL won their seventh star, the fifth in a row. The most worthy representative of French football thus joined in the legend the great Real Madrid of Alfredo Di Stefano, winner of the men's C1 five years in a row (between 1956 and 1960).
And it is certainly not over. The Lyonnaises have ample means to go for the absolute record next season. Because the years go by, the coaches change (Jean-Luc Vasseur arrived last year), the opponents are building up muscles, and it is always OL who wins at the end.
Never satisfied thirst for success and trophies
PSG had paid the price again in the semifinals on Wednesday in Bilbao, powerless to stop the infernal Rhone machine and beaten 1-0 on a header from Wendie Renard. Symbol of the never-satisfied thirst for success and trophies, the captain and defender of the lionesses enters the pantheon of seven-fold players in Europe with her teammates Sarah Bouhaddi and Eugénie Le Sommer.
The opening of the score by Le Sommer
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- RTÉ Soccer (@RTEsoccer) August 30, 2020As another symbol of the ban of the word resignation from the ranks of this team, it was the latter who launched his team on the road to success against Wolfsburg. Pushed back on the bench since the start of Final 8, the top scorer in OL history (now with 269 goals) took advantage of Ada Hegerberg's serious injury and Nikita Parris' expulsion in the semi-final to regain his place at the forefront of the attack. Always inspired against Wolfsburg (5 goals in the last four confrontations), Le Sommer was therefore faithful to the meeting by taking in two stages a center behind Delphine Cascarino (25th).
A strike from 20 m into the small net Saki Kumagai just before the break (43rd), and the trick was played we thought. But the Germans, rather happy with the outcome of their semi-final against Barcelona (1-0), were not determined to let themselves be defeated so easily by their best enemies. The reduction of the gap of Alexandra Popp in a stammering defense (57th) cast doubt on the Lyonnaises, who have less mastered their subject.
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The third goal of the Icelandic Sara Björk Gunnarsdottir, arrived on July 1 from… Wolfsburg, then sounded like a release (87th). It would have taken a lot more to shake and fall from their pedestal a team at the top of their game. Invincible! Matchless! Legendary! Simply.
