In the late match of the 19th day, Lyon emerged with difficulty on the lawn of Libourne against the Girondines de Bordeaux, who have long hung the leaders of the championship before yielding on a free kick from Claire Lavogez.


Bordeaux has become almost customary this season. Back to the wall, the Girondines are able to get out of big performances to get the most unlikely points. It was already the case last December when Bordeaux after falling at home against Rodez (a game that was played at Matmut Atlantique) went to get the draw on the lawn of Juvisy.


The race for points


Now red lantern, Bordeaux knows that his calendar does not allow him to choose these matches. Lyon today, before moving to Marseille, then Juvisy and Paris to finish the season. And against Lyon today, the Bordelaises have forgotten the 40 points that separated the two teams before the kickoff. From the first minutes, the energy deployed by the Bordelaises reflects the desire to give everything and why not go for a goal in the first minutes and then hold in the manner of a Cup match.


In these first minutes, the exploit was perhaps in the feet of Emelyne Laurent. The international U19 tricolor has multiplied accelerations in fierce duels with Griedge Mbock, running and shoulder to shoulder. Twice in the first ten minutes, Emelyne Laurent has approached the goals kept by Meline Gerard, managing to hit from the third minute.


An angle too closed to be able to fly, but his attempt requires the goalkeeper Lyonnaise to divert the ball for a corner. Moments later, Emelyne Laurent gives all the trouble in the world to the Lyon defense, and Méline Gérard has to do it twice before controlling the ball in its surface.


The Bordelaises have forgotten the fatigue


After the first ten minutes, Bordeaux needs to breathe and Lyon can regain control of the game. OL who showed up with a team reshuffled after the Champions League, with six holders of the weekend last rested while Eugenie Le Sommer and Sarah Bouhaddi started on the bench. Many changes that do not explain the difficulties of OL alone.


Lyon had opportunities in the first period with covers of Lavogez (22) and Hamraoui (27) missing the frame on Alex Morgan centers. It is then the crossbar that pushes the deadline with a free kick from Claire Lavogez to twenty meters in the axis and Elisa Launay diverts on the bar, before Caroline Seger does not try his luck and does not meet the same result (34th).


A bit of awkwardness and a big rush of energy Girondine players allows Bordeaux to hold the score until the break. After the break, the entries of Corine Petit and Eugénie Le Sommer do not change the situation in favor of OL. The players of Gérard Prêcheur are confronted with a huge combativeness of the Bordelaises who throw themselves on all the balloons in the image of this corner in the 48th minute when the players of Jerome Dauba have multiplied the rescues in front of their goal.

Lyon has relinquished kicks


Even the change of guardian side of Bordeaux does not seem to have a negative impact. Elisa Launay gives her place to Alizée Nadal (69th) who is solid on her first interventions. But Bordeaux recedes and commits faults close to its surface. In the 77th minute, Claire Lavogez took a free kick 25 meters to the left and placed a shot that was diverted by Nadal as the ball went to the left corner of the goal Bordeaux. Two minutes later, she is again on a free-kick but this time to a small score of the goal, slightly offside left side.


His wrapped shot hits the crossbar and crosses the goal line. Alizee Nadal is beaten and Lyon finally managed to blow the Bordeaux lock (79th). A goal that does not demobilize by the Bordeaux women who were able to recover quickly and even continued to move forward with Emelyne Laurent, active in the lead until the end of the game.


Lyon pulled out this victory in front of the 2400 spectators of the Moueix stadium who believed in the exploit of Bordeaux. A need for exploit that seems to be the program imposed on Bordeaux at the end of the season if they still want to believe in the maintenance. A challenge they took seriously considering their performance this afternoon.