"We don't know who leads, who does what, who is who": Lyon, a monument of French football adrift

"I'm going to be careful what I say, because I don't want to go off the rails live on TV." Alexandre Lacazette said little last Saturday after the football porridge of Lyon in Brest (1-0) on the 6th day of Ligue 1, but his subtext meant a lot. Relegated (17th with 2 points in 6 rounds) and unable to win a game since the beginning of the season, Olympique Lyonnais no longer scares anyone and gives the impression of not realizing a situation of decline that has already begun for several seasons. Saturday in Brest, Lyon was hard to see, without idea, without relief and without any will to react collectively, with a game of abysmal poverty and non-existent creativity. "We did not know how to play football, we suffered from beginning to end, once again, admits the Gone Maxence Caqueret, also carried away by the ambient slump and who is only a shadow of himself. It's unacceptable, I can't say anything else." The crisis is here, to all...

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