He Lyon took a big step towards securing direct qualification to the round of 16 of the Europa League after defeating a 3-2 team on Thursday Eintracht Frankfurt, who until now did not know defeat in the second continental competition, thanks to an outstanding performance by Rayan Cherki.
Due to financial problems, which could condemn them to administrative relegation at the end of this season, the Lyon team has found an escape route on the playing field.
In fact, since the National Directorate of Control and Management (DNCG), the financial gendarme of the French Football League, announced on January 15 the threat of relegation, Pierre Sage’s team has not known defeat.
It is more than Lyon Not only have they won their last three games, but they have clearly won, as witnessed by the eleven goals scored by ‘les gonens’ in their last three games.
An upward line that would not be understood without the step forward made by playmaker Rayan Cherki, who seems to have recovered the impressive level he showed two seasons ago, when the French international was dreaming of all the great in Europe.
As shown this Thursday against Eintracht Frankfurt in a match where Cherki not only scored the first goal for the French team, but also played a leading role in all the dangerous actions that the French team generated.
An offensive flow that did not prevent Olympique Lyon, who crashed two balls into the posts, from being behind on the scoreboard, after seeing how in the eighteenth minute Ansgar Knauff did not waste the first chance that Eintracht had to sign 0-1.
A goal that, far from calming the local team, worsened the ambition of Sage’s team, who nine minutes later, in the twenty-seventh minute, leveled the contest (1-1) with a goal from Cherki who deflected a shot off the rim. of place in Corentin Tolisso’s nets.
Lyon had chances to turn the score around before half-time, but the score did not reach 2-1 until five minutes into the second half on a counterattack led by Cherki which was completed by young Belgian forward Malick Fofana.
Rayan Cherki also participated in the third goal of the French team, the work of the Ghanaian winger Ernest Nuamah who established the score in the 54th minute with an amazing 3-1, making the last goal (3- 2) by Egyptian Omar Marmosush for the Germans without result.
A result that consolidated Lyon into the first eight places that ensured direct access to the round of 16 which Eintracht Frankfurt are still chasing despite their defeat at the Groupama Stadium
Source: La Verdad
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