Ligue 1+, the new LFP platform which will broadcast eight of the nine matches of each day in the French championship (against 14.99 euros per month, with three first months at 9.99), returns to nine “legendary matches”. After the incredible update of OM against Montpellier (5-4) in a Delirian Vélodrome stadium, in the summer of 1998, we find the very first coronation of OL, in 2002, thanks to a “final” won against RC Lens (3-1), at the end of the season in Gerland.
The Lensois led by Guillaume Warmuz, Jean-Guy Wallemme and Éric Sikora, all three champions of France in 1998 under the orders of Daniel Leclercq, have the race at the top of the ranking since the 13th day and have a point ahead before moving to the field of their dolphin. A draw is enough for them, but the Jean-Michel Aulas club opens the scoring in the 7th minute by Sidney Govou, before double the bet by Philippe Violeau in the quarter of an hour of play!
This “final” for the title is memorable (the summary of the match is therefore to be found on Ligue 1+). The blood and gold reduce the gap by their Polish defender Jacek Bak (27th). Daniel Moreira and Stéphane Pedron fall on Grégory COUTT, while Antoine SIBIERSKI is reported out of the game when he sent the ball to the bottom of the heads of the head. The team of Joël Muller gives before the time of play on an action carried out by Juninho and a strike from Pierre Laigle which capsizes the Rhodanian public (53rd).
Wallemme and Warmuz Disarnsed
The end is terrible for Jean-Guy Wallemme. Emblematic player of the RC Lens after his 431 matches from 1986 to 1998, the defender then played two seasons at AS Saint-Etienne by becoming even coach-player (with Rudi Garcia in assistant) in January 2001. Five months later, at 35, he signed for a single season with the residents of Bollaert, to “finish the loop”, and will play almost all the meetings of the championship. El-Hadji Diouf is the offensive crack of the Artesian team.
On the purpose of his former teammate Laigle, Wallemme is unfortunately faulty by deviating the strike of the opposing left, which lobes Warmuz. The very last match of his career is therefore a very bad memory. A coach at heart, he has led a long and rich career of coach for 20 years, from Ligue 2 (with RC LENS) to Algeria by passing the selections of Congo and Niger. At 57, the native of Maubeuge runs the Bethunois stadium in R1.
