Lyon, Leicester, Naples … Cuckold Sunday! – Soccer

Depay left OL on a standard of disappointment.

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What do Niko Kovac, Thomas Tuchel, Jrgen Klopp, Stefano Pioli and Andrea Pirlo have in common? It’s simple, all these coaches have managed to grab the Champions League and have received this news with great joy. Even more for the last four coaches mentioned, who all officiate at the head of teams concerned by the Super League. On the other hand, three of their colleagues had a much more complicated Sunday.

Lyon, the delusion

This is the case of Rudi Garcia. His departure from Olympique Lyonnais was no longer in doubt. It was formalized by the main interested party after the completely incomprehensible exit from the road against Nice (2-3) within the framework of the 38th and last day of Ligue 1. A match which perfectly sums up the Rhone season: a good start, with a Goal ahead of the break, then a complete cracking return from the locker room. One more.

And yet, Lens, who was also fighting for a qualification in the Europa League, facilitated the work of Gones by hanging Monaco (0-0). But the Memphis Depay gang, which has yet finished the first leg of the championship, ended up scuttling to miss, for the second consecutive year, the qualification for the most prestigious of European competitions. An end of season in sausage water for the club managed by Jean-Michel Aulas.

Leicester, once but not twice …

A fairly similar disappointment for Brendan Rodgers. The Northern Irish coach, who however won a title with the FA Cup, will obviously not be disembarked by his Leicester leaders. But this end of the championship can be considered a huge failure by the surprise winner of the 2015-2016 edition. And for good reason, the Foxes spent almost all the exercise on the podium before stumbling at the worst time.

Released from the TOP 4 after the defeat against Chelsea (2-1), the week passed, Leicester, like Lyon, was however able to count on the huge boost from Aston Villa, defeat of the Blues (2-1). But like Lyon, after leading 2-1, Jamie Vardy’s partners have cracked against Tottenham (2-4). A terrible defeat, the third in the last five days, which stuck the Foxes in 5th place in the English championship, a year after having experienced such delusion as a private C1 in the last match.

The suicide of Naples

But if there is a coach for whom the pill will be even more difficult to swallow, it is Gennaro Gattuso. Because unlike Lyon and Leicester, who were suspended on the results of their rivals, Naples had its destiny between its feet in this 38th day of Serie A. It was enough for the Partenopei, who have lost only once in their last 16 games. , to beat the Hellas Vrone, who had nothing to play. A mission fails in large widths.

And for good reason, Napoli conceded a pitiful draw (1-1). Despite Amir Rrahmani’s opener, the San Paolo residents got caught up in a trivial action, after a release from the opposing goalkeeper. An equalizer from which Naples has never recovered, who saw AC Milan and Juventus finish the job, respectively against Atalanta (0-2) and Bologna (1-4), to spin in C1. Eternal regrets for the 2006 world champion, dismissed, unsurprisingly, in the crowd.

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