Didier Digard coach of Le Havre (Photo by Pascal GUYOT / AFP)
When OL continued their good series, Le Havre continued to sink with a 5th loss in a row. Didier Digard, however, admitted Lyon‘s superiority with a fiery attack.
It had been three years since theOL had never been so prolific against the opposing goal far from its bases. Sunday, the Lyon team took care of its goal average with a great victory on the Le Havre pitch (0-4). Pierre’s players Sage were favorites before kick-off, but the international break could have broken the dynamic and pushed the Normans to the feat. This was not the case and it was ultimately a fifth success in a row for theOL all competitions combined, a fifth setback for Le Havre. “It’s a heavy defeat, so it’s complicated. Afterwards, it’s mainly the contrast with what we are capable of doing, what we do intermittently, it’s difficult, regretted Didier Digard after the match. There are many different scenarios. At the beginning, I think the dynamic is that you basically want to be solid. And then, we concede a goal and we don’t reverse things, we have to wait until half-time each time to correct and instill something.”
“The players who returned were €30M players”
With only one goal behind at the break, Le Havre still had his chances. Returning with better intentions, the Ciel et Bleu took advantage of a certain ease in Lyon to move forward. It was ultimately to the contrary effect, because theOL was able to take advantage of it like this rapid attack on Malick’s break goal Breathe. In the tough, Didier Digard could only recognize Lyon’s superiority and in particular its offensive arsenal. “This OL team has an offensive power which means that if you give them space, you get punished. We were timid in the first, but more enterprising in the second. Unfortunately, as soon as we wanted to going forward, we were punished. Even the players who came back were players worth 30 million euros. It’s perhaps hard to accept, but you have to be realistic.”
With a Lacazette scorer and a Mikautadze decisive for the first time this season, theOL had a perfect Sunday.
