The march was a bit high for Lille / Champions League (group stage)

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Charles Bourgoin 09/29/2021 10:58 p.m. | UPDATED ON 09/29/2021 AT 10:59 PM

Despite a good reaction in the second half, LOSC could not resist RB Salzburg for their second outing of the season in the Champions League (1-2).

The time for regrets has not yet come, but at the time of the first assessments, the LOSC begins to wince. Not rewarded despite an excellent production against Wolfsburg for his entry into the Champions League (0-0), the French champion suffered the law of Salzburg on Wednesday. There was a gap to fill between the best team in Austria, far too accustomed to European games, but Lille will not have to be ashamed of their defeat.

Lille weighed down by his first period

It was in the first half that everything was played out in this meeting

. Lille took too long to take the measure of this balance of power in a rather remarkable atmosphere. Superior in holding the ball and more creative, the Redbull club multiplied the waves in the first half hour. After several hot alerts in the Lille area – by Okafor (12th) or Adeyemi (26th) – the opening of the scoring occurred quite logically. And the evening hangman had a name: Karim Adeyemi. From the top of his 19 years, the young German took care of almost everything.

It was he who pushed Botman to the fault to obtain a penalty awarded by the VAR after long minutes of waiting, before transforming it with the authority of an old man (1-0, 35th) . It is he, again, who sent a new thrill on a dry recovery countered in extremis by Fonte (45th 3). And it was he, above all, who doubled the stake when he returned from the locker room by converting a new penalty following a hand from Burak Yilmaz (2-0, 53rd). We are not going to lie: Lille could not hope for better at this stage of the match, especially since Kristensen had found the post (41st).

However, this did not prevent the Mastiffs from revolting, which will remain the good point of the evening . In a seasoned frame, Burak Yilmaz relaunched his own with a powerful direct free kick just after the hour mark (2-1, 62nd). From then on, Gourvennec’s men threw all their strength into the battle, with a higher block and greater intensity in the duels. We cannot blame this LOSC for not having put everything it had. It was not enough. Because Salzburg avoided a too painful end to the game without closing the floodgates. Lille falls to the last place in this group G, where everything remains open. The step was too high.

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