Yet dominant, Olympique Lyonnais fell against the Turks of Besiktas (0-1), this Thursday, on the lawn of the Groupama-Stadium.
End of series for Lyon. After five consecutive victories in all competitions, including two in the Europa League, Olympique Lyonnais stumbled on their feet this Thursday on their lawn at Groupama Stadium, against Besiktas Istanbul (0-1). Despite around thirty shots and opportunities galore, the Gones, very clumsy and unlucky at times, never found the goal and were punished by a counter-attack concluded by the Portuguese Gedson Fernandes.
The latter, alerted in depth by his compatriot Rafa Silva, came to beat goalkeeper Lucas Perri in the 71st minute, shortly after the latter had already saved the Lyon team by diverting a shot from the Italian Ciro Immobile onto his post ( 67th). A perfect hold-up but the fault lies with the clumsiness and lack of realism of OL who completely dominated this meeting against a team from Besiktas, 2nd in the Turkish championship but nevertheless very harmless if we except the goal and shot on the post.
Helm, rescue on the line… Nothing smiled on Lyon
Played in a context of reinforced security due to serious incidents between ultra supporters of the two clubs in April 2017 during a quarter-final first leg of the Europa League, this meeting did not even attract the 30,000 spectators hoped for. This was the maximum gauge that OL had set for itself, which had also decreed nominative tickets, this time prioritizing security over revenue, while organizing rigorous controls on the resale of tickets.
“In order to prevent possible incidents and disturbances to public order”fans of the Turkish club were not allowed to travel from Wednesday to Friday in the center of Lyon, train stations and airports as well as at motorway tolls in the city, the prefecture of Lyon indicated at the beginning of October. Rhone. The ban also applied to access to the stadium and its surroundings on the evening of the match. Firecrackers, pyrotechnic devices and alcohol were also banned from the perimeter.
OL largely dominated the first period (30 shots including nine on target) but without being able to materialize their superiority due to not having played right in the decision zone except for a goal from Alexandre Lacazette, served by the omnipresent Corentin Tolisso, but refused for offside (24th) before a penalty was canceled by the video assistance (27th).
In the second period, a header from Moussa Niakhaté went just wide (54th) before Saïd Benrahma found the crossbar (56th) while a final shot from Wilfried Zaha was pushed back on the line by Félix Uduokhai in added time (90+3rd).
As a result of this defeat, OL fell to 10th place in the 36-team ranking while their Turkish opponent obtained their first points in the competition, moving up to 27th place.
