The Lyon footballers won their 15th title of champions of France on Sunday, completing their season of reconquest in D1 with a new success with their Parisian rivals (1-0), which open a period of reconstruction.
The epilogue of a season of reconquest for OL
The match between PSG and OL was the most anticipated poster of the women’s D1, the one that crystallizes the most tensions, the one that also summarizes the gap that separates the champion from his runner-up. Last season, for the first time in fifteen years, the champion was called Paris and the runner-up Lyon, the result of a gradual rebalancing of the forces present in recent years in French women’s football. But OL, stung by this unusual rout, quickly bounced back: here they are, 24 months later, again at the top of the French hierarchy, eight days after having returned to the happiness of a title in the League of champions, the 8th in its great history. This week has indeed started with a flamboyant success (3-1) against FC Barcelona, defending champion.
The victory offered to Lyon by a goal from the 3rd minute
The Lyonnaises therefore end their season with this victory at the Jean-Bouin stadium, against a PSG at their worst. From the 3rd minute of the match, Catarina Macario scored a goal and gave the victory to her team. Les Parisiennes tried to react to the return from the locker room and Karchaoui was close to equalizing, but she found Endler’s crossbar.
A disastrous season for PSG
PSG, all the same winner of the Coupe de France, will have to rebuild everything, or almost: its coach Didier Ollé-Nicolle was sidelined after an “inappropriate gesture” towards a player, the affair of the Kheira Hamaroui’s aggression continues to pollute the locker room, and major changes are already expected in the organization chart of the women’s section.