Led at half-time (1-0), Auxerre revived for the maintenance and broke the nascent dynamic of Lyon by winning 2 to 1 at the expense of a very disappointing OL, Friday at the Abbé-Deschamps stadium in the match of the 24th day. Olympique Lyonnais remained on six games without defeat, all competitions combined, and in particular on a great success against Lens (2-1). The men of Laurent Blanc, sick and absent in Auxerre, replaced by Franck Passi, remain stuck in the soft underbelly of the classification, in 9th place, six lengths from Lille (5th) pending the meetings on Saturday and Sunday.
This goal rewarded the control of Lyon, timid offensively, which obtained only another opportunity in the first period on a resumption of the head of Castelo Lukeba on which the goalkeeper Ionut-Andrei Radu intervened well (17) at the reception of a center of Rayan Cherki. Offensively, the duo made up of Dembélé and Sarr did not make us forget the pair which led the Lyon attack recently with Lacazette and Bradley Barcola, who entered only in the 75th minute.
In the aftermath, AJA took the advantage with a header from Jubal, alone at the far post on receipt of a corner conceded on an action at the end of which Diomandé had almost scored against his camp before being at fault for the marking of the Brazilian defender (54). At the end of the game, Gauthier Hein pushed Anthony Lopes to the parade and could even have brought the score to 3-1 (74) while Lyon put pressure to the end to equalize.
