• Cruelly eliminated from the Champions League by Chelsea, Olympique Lyonnais is preparing to play on May 13 and 21 two turns against PSG, to sign a double Cup of France-D1.
  • Lyon coach Sonia Bompastor fears not being able to count on Amandine Henry, physically fit but currently on sick leave, for these two shocks.
  • The emblematic midfielder of OL and Les Bleues (33 years old) wants to join the American franchise of Angel City (in Los Angeles), which offers him three and a half years of contract.

Stunned by its cruel elimination in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, a month ago against Chelsea, will Olympique Lyonnais be able to count on its international midfielder Amandine Henry to win the double D1-Coupe de France? This is not obvious at all, although the seven-time European champion has recovered from her knee injury, contracted in early March. "Amandine was fit to resume with the group this week," OL coach Sonia Bompastor told Le Progrès.

But Amandine Henry does not participate in training in Décines, this week again. She has indeed put herself on sick leave, as revealed by the Rhône daily. The reason? Two months before the end of her contract in Lyon, the 33-year-old player wants to join the American franchise of Angel City, located in Los Angeles, which offers her a long contract of three and a half years. If Sonia Bompastor finds this opportunity "top, from a performance point of view as for the living environment", she does not want to see her former teammate leave OL and the France team before the end of the season.

She played her 15th season with OL

In the line of sight are two shocks against PSG, on May 13 and 21, to win respectively the Coupe de France and the championship, and Sonia Bompastor counts on an element as experienced as Amandine Henry to achieve it. "She tells me Angel City wants her right now. She asks me to release her before the end of the season. She is an important player in the squad, my team is better with her than without her, and it is impossible for me to release her. »

The big scare experienced by Amandine Henry, on March 4 during the quarter-final of the Coupe de France in Reims, with a knee injury finally not so serious as that, would encourage her not to want to take the slightest risk not to compromise the possible last contract of her professional career. The situation seems to be at a standstill, since no agreement has been reached between the player and OL, with whom she is currently playing her 15th season.


"I understand it from a human point of view"

Will Amandine Henry be ready not to play again with Lyon by the end of May, even if it means risking missing the next World Cup in Australia and New Zealand with Hervé Renard's Les Bleues? "I very much hope that it will get better, slips Sonia Bompastor to Progress. As a former player, I understand her from a human point of view. But as a coach, I also have to defend the interests of the club. And sportingly, I can't free Amandine: in the big events, she has always been present. I shoot myself in the foot if I let her go. »

Add to this the rumours of Ada Hegerberg's departure to Barça, and the vagueness around the possible takeover of the club by Michele Kang, and you will understand that the doubts do not only concern the men's section at OL.

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