Olympique Lyonnais and Paris Saint-Germain face off in the final of the 22nd edition of the Coupe de France on Saturday (at 3:50 p.m. on France 2).
OL-PSG, act II. After nine months of competition, Lyonnaises and Parisiennes meet in the final of the Coupe de France, Saturday June 13, in Orléans (at 3:50 p.m. live on France 2 and france.tv). Defeated in the first leg in the league (1-0) and a week before meeting for the return match, Lyon will want to take revenge against the club from the capital, defending champion. While the English Cup final is being played the same weekend in a sold-out Wembley stadium, the two teams will face off in front of 8,000 people at the Source stadium in Orléans.
Because it’s a first chance for both teams to save their season
In Orleans, the two teams have a first opportunity to save their season. Largely at the head of the championship, unsurprisingly, Lyonnaises (leaders with 55 points) and Parisiennes (second with 52 points) have, on the other hand, experienced a bad European spring. Shaken in the Champions League, beaten in the group stages, they came to a premature end, eliminated in the quarter-finals against Chelsea and Wolfsburg.
On Saturday, the goal is to get your hands on a first trophy this season. “The Coupe de France has always been an important objective for the club. After the last one won three years ago, it would be a great achievement to be able to bring this trophy back to Lyon for a tenth time”OL coach Sonia Bompastor told the FFF. “I came to Paris to win trophies, and I think that with this team we should win trophies.”, assured Parisian midfielder Jackie Groenen.
Because it’s a competition classic
It is a new opposition between two inseparable teams of the Coupe de France. This is the sixth final between the two clubs, the most disputed opposition at this level of the competition in 22 editions.
OL are leading the debates for the moment, with four victories for only one Parisian. The Fenottes had also won the last one, in the summer of 2020, after a close match and a penalty shootout (0-0, 4-3).
The final of this 2023 edition also brings together two of the biggest winners of the competition. The Lyonnaises are far in the lead, with nine coronations, while the club from the capital, defending champion, won three trophies (as many as Montpellier) between 2010 and 2022.
Enough to feed the stakes on both sides of the field, between a Rhone “decima” in sight, and the objective of retaining the title in Paris.
Because the duel will oppose many internationals
Who says great teams says great players on the lawn. And the spectators at the Stade de la Source will be served, with twelve French internationals from the latest list of new coach Hervé Renard in the groups of the two teams (five in Lyon, seven in Paris). Among them, we find two of the three nominated for the title of best player of the season, the Parisian Grace Geyoro (who also began her career in Orléans) and the Fenotte Delphine Cascarino.
For them as for their teammates, this final is also one of the last opportunities to show themselves before the selection of Les Bleues for the World Cup. Especially since the match will be played under the eyes of the coach of the France team, present in the stands. A dynamic that also applies to the other star internationals of the two clubs, such as the Norwegian Ada Hegerberg in Lyon, or Lieke Martens and Jackie Groenen, the Dutch from PSG, who will be keen to shine just over two months from now. sending off the Mondial.