After an initial setback in Strasbourg, Lyon were unable to rectify the situation at home.
This start to the Lyon season is a nightmare, in line with an off-season made difficult by the intransigence of French football authorities in the face of somewhat loose Rhone management. For their first at home, the Gones failed. Six days after their inaugural loss at La Meinau (2-1), Laurent Blanc’s men drank the cup in front of Montpellier (1-4).
Faced with a team that generally does well for them, OL complicated their task from the start on a monumental blunder by Riou – a decisive passer in spite of himself to the benefit of Nordin (0-1, 20e). Unable to react as they should, Lyon then suffered the precision and accuracy of the Jordanian Al-Tamari, twice (39e66e) to find themselves trailing 0-3.
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Lacazette reacted well by opening his counter (1-3, 69e); but the Rhone hero saw red in the process for a completely avoidable fault of frustration (80e). The coup de grace for Lyonnais who will concede another goal, by Adams (1-4, 89e). With as a bonus, to add to the humiliation of the day, the provisional red lantern. Not since 1999 have OL lost their first game of the season at home. You even have to go back to 1966 to find traces of such a failed launch in the league.
