The result is mentally disastrous. OL only took one point away from Paris FC (3-3) on Wednesday evening for the 10th day of Ligue 1, wasting a three-goal lead. Les Gones led 3-0 in the 58th minute after a second personal goal from Pavel Sulc. At 10 against 10, the promoted Parisians snatched a point thanks to the achievements of Adama Camara (65th), Ilan Kebbal (77th) and Vincent Marchetti (85th), while missing a match point at the end of the suspense.
The Lyon club had already experienced such a mishap in its history, it was on October 6, 1990 at Gerland, when Montpellier came. The Rhone team, then led by Raymond Domenech (38 years old at the time), led 3-0 at the hour mark after goals from Bruno Genesio (2nd), Stéphane Roche (taking advantage of an error by goalkeeper Claude Barrabé, 38th) and Laurent Debrosse (with a beautiful header, 59th).
The public is delirious and in no way imagines a
remontada HĂ©raultaise. Kader Ferhaoui reignites the suspense only in the 75th minute and the last two minutes of normal time offer the incredible result. Laurent Blanc, 24, revealed as an attacking midfielder at MHSC, scored his team’s second goal from the surface (89th).
Laurent Blanc as a scorer
The next minute, on a rise from Pascal Baills, the future world champion 98 showed composure to adjust Gilles Rousset with a well-placed shot from the right (90th). To the great displeasure of Domenech, to the delight of Montpellier president Loulou Nicollin, author of an obscene gesture with his hands… The one who was not yet called “Lolo The President” was then at 8 goals in 12 days of Division 1!
Note that OL had already squandered a three-goal lead but in November 1973, during the visit of Stade de Reims, for a 4-4 final. Serge Chiesa and Bernard Lacombe had allowed the Gones to lead 4-1 in the 65th minute, but Carlos Bianchi restarted everything for the Champenois with a double before an equalizer from an Argentinian defender named CĂ©sar-Auguste LĂ©pine.
