Despite seeing his Olympique Lyonnais beat the enemy, AS Saint-Etienne in the season’s first Derby http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Du-c11689 Rhone, the club president has chosen to give a more philosophical view of things that could happen in the league
Victorious in their first trip to AS Saint-Etienne’s Stade Geoffroy-Guichard on Sunday, Olympique Lyonnais and its fans have every reason to celebrate. And, seeing his team beat a team that he hates on principle, club president, Jean-Michel Aulas feels that
Les Gones came up against a Les Verts side that was for some odd reason, not extremely bright like it has been against other sides.
Today, Remi Garde’s team stands on top of the Ligue 1 table with a five-point lead over Paris Saint-Germain which is something not many people had predicted ahead of the start of the 2012/2013 Ligue 1 campaign.
Naturally, many fans do feel that Lyon would finally be able to lift the Championelle for the first time in many years this time around and add to their already trophy-filled cabinet. However, Aulas is rather comfortable to see his team work in the shadows
and has chosen not to talk about titles just yet.
Knowing that the club still has a lot of shortcomings, the Frenchman has said that it is Paris Saint-Germain who are still favourites to lift their first Championelle of the millennium especially after showing their lethalness against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Porto-c39186 and Evian
TG respectively.
“As I have said from the beginning of the season, it is not time to start talking about it (title). Our first target is to return to the Champions League and top three. As such, we have a very important match against Nancy on Wednesday. After the match against
Paris, we might ask questions. But PSG remains by far the favourite, in part because it has a huge budget and secondly because it has qualities we saw recently against Porto and against Evian, making it the media favourite....and it is like that,” says Aulas.
However, there is a possibility that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-Lyonnais-c40130 end the first half of the campaign as winter champions which would be something that would go down well with fans even if they don’t get to see their team win the title this term.
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