Heroic at the Vélodrome 3 weeks ago, Mathew Ryan experienced the reverse emotion on Sunday in the northern derby against Lille. The Australian, who had multiplied the parades against Olympique de Marseille, this time was the executioner of his own team.
In this meeting counting for the 27th day of Ligue 1, it is a fairly enormous blunder of the former porter of Brighton who allowed the Lille to open the scoring in the first period. After trying to control a balloon, Ryan missed his gesture and got his feet in the carpet. Under the pressure of Mathias Fernandez-Pardo, the 32-year-old goalkeeper committed the irreparable and left the Belgian scoring in the deserted goal (0-1, 19th).
Lens never recovered from this blunder on the lawn of the North Stadium. Sang and gold bowed (1-0) despite some clear opportunities at the end of the game, including covers by near Nzola and Agbonifo.
Goodbye Europe for Lens
In the ranking, it is Lille who does the right operation by returning two points from the 3rd, OM, and three lengths from the Dauphin of PSG, AS Monaco.
Lens has probably said goodbye to his dreams of Europe, since Will Still players are now 7 lengths from the 6th and first qualified for continental places, the Racing Club of Strasbourg.
