Olympique Lyonnais won on the lawn of the Parc des Princes against their runner-up on Sunday, thanks to a goal from Signe Bruun in the last moments (1-0).
And in the end, OL wins. The Lyonnaises won their 16th D1 Arkema championship title by winning against Paris Saint-Germain (1-0), at the Parc des Princes, on Sunday May 21. After dominating the entire game, they found the fault in the last minutes, thanks to a header from Signe Bruun at the end of a cross (88th).
With a six-point lead and one day still to go, they can no longer be caught by the Parisiennes, the big losers of the evening. This is the third trophy gleaned by the Fenottes this season, a week after winning the Coupe de France, already against Paris.
Bruun delivers OL
This one, they went looking for it. Long held in check by the Parisiennes, in what represented the final of the French championship against their runners-up in the standings, the Lyonnaises never gave up. At the end of yet another offensive in the Parisian camp, they were released by a former Parisian, Signe Bruun, who came to box a cross from Amel Majri with a header.
Before their goal, they had long mastered the game and the rhythm, without managing to break through the opposing defense. From the first minutes, they had put pressure on the Parisian goal, like the lob attempted by Ada Hegerberg after Kheira Hamraoui lost the ball in his half of the field (3rd). Holder for the second time this season with her club, the Norwegian has multiplied the calls to try to make a difference. Her teammates got themselves big chances (11th, 28th, 60th), for a long time without success.
Six months after losing the first leg on their lawn (1-0), their only defeat of the season, the Lyonnaises took their revenge and scored a new line on their record. But they lost to injury Delphine Cascarino, after a bad contact with her teammate Elisa De Almeida. Present on the lawn during the celebrations, the French international appeared in tears.
Paris has finally cracked
Big losers of the evening, the Parisians did not really weigh in the meeting. They suffered throughout the first period. Better back from the locker room, they failed to be dangerous (2 strikes, only one on target). They thus let the title escape after a difficult season, marked by numerous injuries (Katoto, Diani). Faced with the measured joy of the Fenottes, the Parisians appeared collapsed, like Sakina Karchaoui and Kheira Hamraoui, who unveiled a T-shirt on which she herself wrote: “Insults, no excuses, where are the men? Patrick Juvet”a year and a half after his attack.
At the party, the Lyonnaises will return to the Rhône with a 16th title in their suitcases, the first, symbolically, under the new management of Michelle Kang. More than ever queens of the French championship, they have now got their hands on 16 of the last 17 editions of the D1.