Trained at OL, Sinaly Diomande, Elisha Owusu and Gaëtan Perrin are all three in the Burgundy starting lineup this Sunday.
This is one of the rare chances this season for Georges Mikautadze to have playing time, this afternoon against AJA. He has a chance to play, especially since Lacazette appeared very far from his top form/success on Thursday evening.
Again, before heading to the stadium, we offer you three recent topics concerning OL news. First of all, the incidents between groups of Lyon supporters, during the last home match in Ligue 1 against Nantes (2-0) are still on everyone’s minds, and we will have to monitor that this Sunday afternoon. We explain all that to you here.
On the off-field side, things shook up quite a bit when the formidable tool came out on Thursday evening against Besiktas, with the police present in force for the occasion and who sent a dose of tear gas. Click here to discover our report around the stadium.
Finally, we return below to the inexplicable or almost inexplicable defeat of OL, given their good match, against Besiktas. Be careful, this is already the second time this season, after the Olympico, that Pierre Sage’s men have lost a match in such a crazy way. Niakhaté, Tolisso and the Lyonnais couldn’t believe it Thursday evening.
After his very problematic entry into play against Besiktas, and more generally his topsy-turvy start to the season, Maxence Caqueret’s totem of immunity was shattered in the eyes of Pierre Sage. This did not include him in the group of 21 players that the club has just revealed this Sunday morning.
No Gift Orban either, while Clinton Mata will take a breather for this match, and Ernest Nuamah is out due to injury. This is why young Enzo Molebe (17 years old) manages to find a place in the group today.
OL are entitled to a poster that could be described as a trap, as we cannot imagine anything other than a fourth consecutive success in Ligue 1 for Pierre Sage’s men, this Sunday (3 p.m.) against the modestly promoted auxerrois. But Christophe Pélissier has already scored three hits this season, hitting a team qualified in the Europa League, OGC Nice (2-1), a Stade Brestois which delights us in the Champions League (3-0) and a Stade de Reims currently in the first third of the championship (2-1).
The Lyonnais will therefore have to be wary of the Burgundians, especially given how they have already been trapped against the run of play three days ago against Besiktas (0-1). We hope to enjoy this good little match soooooo League of Talents, crossing our fingers that the incidents with supporters will be put on hold this Sunday, after the recent affairs against Nantes and Besiktas.
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