OL : Toulouse or not to lose

OL host Toulouse this Sunday at 5:05 p.m. for the 15th day of Ligue 1. After another humiliating defeat in Marseille on Wednesday, there is no question of rehashing for the Lyonnais: “The idea was to quickly purge what happened to refocus on the following matches. The maintenance of the team will be decided in the next matches. The important thing is to refocus on the matches that follow“, has explained Pierre Sage in a pre-match press conference.

And for this home match, the Lyonnais will have to try to save the furniture.”against a team from our current championship“, as the interim coach analyzed: “Today, our championship is that of maintenance. We come to a situation that is critical. Marseille, Lille, it’s no longer our championship. If we manage to have a different approach to these matches, it is obvious that we will be much more efficient.“.

It remains to be seen whether the locker room will have the trigger: “We talked among ourselves and said things to each other. Sunday against Toulouse, it’s going to be different, that’s the message for the supporters and I hope they will be behind us like they have been behind us all the time because it’s not easy for them too, I can imagine. We are going to do better than in Lens because we know that for us every match is a final now“, assured Dejan Lovrenwho says he is ready to take on the challenge.

So how can we not repeat the rout at the Vélodrome? “In Marseille, we wanted to do the same thing as in Lens. We realized that we were giving the ball back to the opponent too quickly. We want to impose our game on the opponent to suffer less. Each loss of the ball against OM punished us. There are things to do in the tactical organization“, replied Pierre Sage.

This Sunday, OL could pass the 10-point mark in 15 days or sink a little further into a crisis which would condemn them to relegation.