The sad draw (0-0) won in Nice by Olympique Lyonnais confirms the slump of the Lyon club.
Olympique Lyonnais will still have to wait to clinch their first victory of the season. After two defeats to start their season, OL were indeed forced into a draw by OGC Nice at the Allianz Riviera (0-0). A draw in every sense of the word, the two teams having delivered a very lackluster performance.
Daniel Riolo was not surprised by the Lyonnais match, in line with Gones’ performances in recent months. “At the end of the season, there was the feeling that there was material to restart with a spirit that had been created, that’s what Aulas said before being fired, that’s what said Textor, he confided to the microphone of RMC, Sunday evening. Even White was satisfied since he was maintained. It’s not so much to be bad – even if one point in three games is worrying – it’s that in the game there is not the slightest idea. We feel that it’s a team that has to train badly, a coach who is no longer concerned and that gives football porridge. It’s seeing Barcola upside down because his agent absolutely wants him to go to PSG. His agent is Jorge Mendes, he is well in the catalog (of PSG, editor’s note) and will have what it takes in passing. I don’t know if all the players are totally concerned because what is happening. In terms of the game, there is no clue.”
And the RMC editorialist continued by dressing Laurent Blanc for the winter. “Just with this group, Lyon should offer much more, he adds. Except that there is a coach completely overwhelmed since he lost Jean-Louis Gasset. Today you have to offer better. You don’t have to be whining all the time because you weren’t given this or that. After a while, stop complaining, work with what you got and make it look like something “, he thus launched.
But according to Daniel Riolo, the beginning of the problems goes back several years. “Of course Textor is not an ace. Lyon had been sinking for four or five years already. This is the story of a fall initiated by Jean-Michel Aulas, it was he who initiated the fall because he never knew how to renew himself, he thus affirmed. He made bad coaching choices, bad choices in recruitment and it is the club with the second largest budget after PSG. The problem does not date from Textor, the fall of OL began quite a few years ago. »
