Lyon provided the essential with this 1-3 victory against a very courageous Angers.
The Lyonnais leave with three points, and Amine Sarr scored his first goal in his new colors.
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We are doing well in this first period.
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These are the words of Johann Lepenant at the microphone of Prime Video at the break.
And for good reason.
After the first minutes of the match, it's hard to imagine Angers finding themselves at the bottom of the championship.
Bentaleb and his teammates had overall control of the ball and made good moves offensively.
The first shot, first corner, first cross, everything was in favor of the Angevins during the first minutes.
Defensively, Houtondji was very valuable and solid in stopping Lyon's rare incursions (28th, 0-0).
But even if Abdel Bouhazama's men showed a very good state of mind, that was not enough to really worry Anthony Lopes, the fault of several offensive inaccuracies.
Quite the opposite of Olympique Lyonnais.
On his only foray,
Lepenant gets a nice foul after a good hook on Abdelli.
At 25 meters full axis, Thiago Mendes rolls up perfectly to get around the wall and open the scoring (38th, 0-1).
A very badly placed wall by Bernardoni.
OL then finished the first period very well.
Amine Sarr's first goal
Upon returning from the locker room, the Lyonnais returned with better intentions.
Cherki got the first strike after a few seconds of play (46th, 0-1).
The block was better in place and Laurent Blanc's men had an easier time keeping the ball.
It must be said that the pace had dropped considerably compared to the first period.
Angers still had a few opportunities to come back to score, like Salama, who chose to strike from a very tight angle rather than serve his partners (72nd, 0-1).
A few moments later, Sima, in great difficulty this afternoon, did not throw himself to take back a very good cross in the area (73rd, 0-1).
On the other side, in a fairly closed period, Lyon were quick to convert their rare opportunities.
Amine Sarr opened his goal counter in Ligue 1 after cutting off a good center from Caqueret at the near post (80th, 0-2).
Lyon, full of confidence with this goal, intelligently retained the ball.
The match seemed to fold, but it was without counting the terrible error of Lovren.
The Croatian defender sent a back pass to his goalkeeper without seeing that Sima was in ambush.
The striker then eliminated Lopes with a hook to conclude in the empty goal (97th, 1-2).
The last minutes were electric then, but only for a few moments.
Barcola came to silence the Angevin hopes with a nice cross shot against Bernardoni (90 + 1st).
The match seemed to fold, but it was without counting the terrible error of Lovren.
The Croatian defender sent a back pass to his goalkeeper without seeing that Sima was in ambush.
The striker then eliminated Lopes with a hook to conclude in the empty goal (97th, 1-2).
The last minutes were electric then, but only for a few moments.
Barcola came to silence the Angevin hopes with a nice cross shot against Bernardoni (90 + 1st).
The match seemed to fold, but it was without counting the terrible error of Lovren.
The Croatian defender sent a back pass to his goalkeeper without seeing that Sima was in ambush.
The striker then eliminated Lopes with a hook to conclude in the empty goal (97th, 1-2).
The last minutes were electric then, but only for a few moments.
Barcola came to silence the Angevin hopes with a nice cross shot against Bernardoni (90 + 1st).
Angers achieves another good performance, but Angers loses again, for the 19th time this season.
Lyon grabs the provisional eighth place, six points behind fifth-placed Lille.
