Before the spectacular meeting between Losc and Paok Salonika on Thursday in the Europa League, two other French clubs lost 4-3 at home in the history of European cups, in the same continental competition, then called the UEFA Cup. These are AS Nancy-Lorraine against CSKA Moscow on December 4, 2008 and OL against Trabzonspor on October 23, 1991 at the Stade de Gerland. A very bad memory for Bruno Ngotty.
In 1991, Jean-Michel Aulas's club continued its rise in French football. Two years after the return to D1, a 5th place is synonymous with C3. The team led by Raymond Domenech had a bad season in French D1 and completely failed in the second round of the UEFA Cup with this first leg lost 4-3 at home against the Turks of Trabzonspor (4-1 defeat on the return leg!).
Ngotty, 20, was unfortunately involved in the four opposing goals, all scored in the second half! The young rock formed in the Rhône came back in disaster with the first two goals from Seyhmus Suna (49th) and Hami Mandirali (52nd). In vain. The show will then begin, because the Lyonnais score magnificent goals. Aziz Bouderbala (the Moroccan star who will inspire the stage names of Booder and Comte de Bouderbala) scores with a diving header (59th) before an equalizer from Milos Bursac on a returned cross from Guillaume Masson (62nd)!
Ngotty in the photo of the four Turkish goals
At the start of the last quarter of an hour, Trabzonspor regained the advantage with a goal from Mandirali, which escaped Ngotty (76th), then OL equalized with the Spaniard Alfonso Fernandez with an acrobatic recovery (78th)! In a fiery atmosphere, the Gones of captain Bruno Genesio will finally be crucified in the 89th minute on a goal from Orhan Çikirikçi, Ngotty being too short to divert the decisive pass full axis… Gilles Rousset, French international goalkeeper (winner of the Kuwait Tournament in 1990), was betrayed by his defenders that day.
Bruno Ngotty then became one of the best defenders in the championship and made his debut for the French team in 1994. It was in 1995 that he joined PSG led by Luis Fernandez to offer the Cup Winners' Cup with a distant free kick deflected by a Rapid Vienne player, on May 8, 1996 at the King Baudouin Stadium. “The black Koeman” (his nickname in reference to this mule strike) was at fault the following year in the UEFA Cup final against Ronaldo's Barça. Ngotty then played for AC Milan, OM, Bolton, Birmingham and Leicester.
