Olympique Lyonnais players rewarded after the miracle in Zagreb – Ligue 1 news
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympique-Lyonnais-c40130 president Jean-Michel Aulas has increased the bonus for the qualification to the second round of the UEFA Champions League after Les Gones miraculously qualified to the last 16 after a 7-1 drubbing of Dinamo Zagreb in Zagreb.
Ahead of their last group game against the Croatian giants, Les Gones needed to win by a big margin against Zagreb and then hope for Madrid to dispose off Ajax Amsterdam at the Amsterdam Arena.
The scoreline was 1-1 at half-time but a six-goal flurry in the second half that included four goals from Bafetimbi Gomis and one each for Lisandro Lopez, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Max-c24993 Gonalons made it 7-1 to Lyon. Real Madrid won 3-0 in the other game as Lyon who
were on the verge of elimination, qualified for the knockout phases in a surprising turn of events.
Jean-Michel Aulas has been clearly pleased with the effort put in by the team. L’Equipe has now reported that the Frenchman is looking to give each player a bonus of 62,000 Euros for their tireless efforts.
Originally, each player should have received 45,000 Euros if Lyon had qualified for the next phase of the Champions League. However, Aulas knows that the conditions his side were put into were clearly not favouring qualification. Remi Garde’s men weren’t
that good in the first half but the second period saw a rejuvenated Lyon team that put Zagreb to the sword in order to achieve the unthinkable.
Aulas, despite the club’s financial problems has decided to raise the bonus 62,000 as the Lyon supremo fully knows that his players have done something not many teams in Europe would have been able to do.
Following the victory, many people put allegations on the Zagreb side but UEFA intervened in time. The UEFA officials thoroughly investigated and found no irregularities in the game much to the displeasure of many journalists and the clubs involved in the
game at Amsterdam. These allegations have also devalued Lyon’s performance in the game and Aulas did not want to take the credit away from his players and has done a great http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684 by raising the bonus knowing that the players would work even harder than before.
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