How to be even more ridiculous while still scoring a goal?
Sunday evening on the lawn of Roazhon Park, Lyon managed to find the answer to this question.
While the Lyonnais had lost the match by being already 4-0 down, they obtained a penalty in stoppage time in order to reduce the score and leave the field a little less ridiculous.
Houssem Aouar, the usual officer in charge of this exercise among the Lyonnais is about to shoot him when his teammate, the Brazilian Lucas Paqueta stands in front of him to prevent him from shooting and then takes the ball from his hands.
A moment of hesitation follows.
It was hot between Aouar and Paqueta to know who would take the penalty.
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Aouar asks for the arbitration of his captain Leo Dubois who says nothing. And he finally lets Paqueta reduce the score (4-1), not without showing his annoyance. But what was the interest of the latter when the match was lost? Simply take care of your personal statistics. A very selfish wish at this time and which could leave traces within the Lyon workforce as the international truce looms. This scene did not please the Lyon leaders but, as often with OL, the story should be settled internally and not in the public square since Paqueta has been Lyon's best element since the start of the season.
On leaving the locker room, Houssem Aouar pleaded diplomatically for an incident without consequences. "I don't want to make a big deal out of it," he says.
Normally, it is me who is appointed but I felt that he was very eager.
In the end, I gave in and gave it to him.
Honestly, there is nothing at all.
In the locker room, we discussed it between us and we said to ourselves that it was nothing at all.
We get along very well and we shouldn't make a deal on this stuff.
It's just a small event.
The most important thing is above all what we did not do in the field.
This is the most important to remember.
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With all due respect to Aouar, that a teammate, in the midst of a collective disaster, "very much want" to take a penalty, is not the sign of a completely collective state of mind.