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Women's Champions League: the Lyonnaises in reconquest

2021-11-09T22:55:59.870Z


After a perfect start to the season, the Lyonnaises, dispossessed of their two major titles last year, tackle Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Wednesday (9 p.m.). Before the shock against PSG on Sunday evening.


Crucial week for OL women.

This Wednesday (9 p.m.), the Rhône-Alpes host Bayern Munich on behalf of the third day of the Women's Champions League, the first part of a diptych at Groupama Stadium, which will also be the scene of the shock against PSG in D1 Arkéma this Sunday evening (9 p.m.).

But before finding their best enemy, who eliminated them from C1 last year before stealing the D1 title from them, the Lyonnaises therefore have an appointment with the champions of Germany.

To discover

  • Champions League fixtures and results

  • Champions League standings

A week which should the veil on the strengths and intentions of Fenottes, the name of Lyonnaises.

Simply reading the results of the start of the season, however, gives an encouraging start to the answer.

With eleven victories in as many matches, in all competitions, since the start of the season, the Lyonnaises have returned to their solid foundations of the previous decade.

With the return of driving forces (Hegerberg, Mbock) and now trained by former player Sonia Bompastor (171 matches with OL), the Rhone players remain in three matches with at least five goals, including a 5-0 already at Décines against Benfica on the last day of the Champions League.

Negotiating Bayern well ... to better prepare PSG

Revenge after the loss of their major titles last year, the Lyonnaises are also against Bayern. This summer, during the Toulouse tournament, they lost 2-4 against the future winners of the tournament, certainly with a reshuffled team. In remarks reported by

L'Equipe,

Sonia Bompastor, who took over from Jean-Luc Vasseur at the end of last season, assures to have learned the lessons: “

We expect to see a great team against us, with good individualities. it will necessarily be a close match. We know that we will have to be at a very good level if we want to beat this team.

"

A not so insurmountable task given the last confrontation between the two teams in the most prestigious of European competitions, when OL beat Bayern in the Final 8 in 2020 (2-1).

Well launched in Group D, where they are two points ahead of Bayern in a formula that since this year marries the group stage format identical to men, will the Lyonnaises only have their heads turned only on this match?

"

The focus is on tomorrow night's match against Bayern, we have time to see what will come next

", promises Sonia Bompastor, who will then look at the meeting against the women's PSG, who crushed Real Madrid at Parc des Princes on Tuesday (4-0).

Hegerberg's beautiful gesture

And the new OL boss knows the importance of the dynamic to negotiate well this "

decisive week

", where his players would be well inspired not to reproduce the performance of the men, slapped in Rennes on Sunday night (4-1).

In preparation for the shock against Paris, the intensity of the match against Bayern will allow us to be in what we will find on Sunday.

The girls have the experience of these encounters

, ”confirms Sonia Bompastor.

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For these crucial meetings, the former international player (156 caps) will have to do without her captain Wendie Renard, unavailable for the next matches.

The first coach in the history of OL will however be able to count on her star striker Ada Hegerberg, who returned a month from 625 days of absence.

If Bompastor has confirmed that she will not start, the first female Ballon d'Or in history (2018) should however come into play, as in each of the last four matches since her return.

And for this first shock of the week, the Norwegian invited the Rhone supporters to invest the spans of Groupama Stadium, offering to finance herself "

for people for whom times are a little hard

".

A beautiful gesture that calls for others.

Source: lefigaro

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