At the Velodrome stadium,
If the Lyonnais supporters were looking for a culprit, Laurent Blanc served them one on a plate: the players. The Olympique Lyonnais coach was not kind to his players at a press conference following OL’s defeat against Olympique de Marseille on Sunday evening at the Stade Vélodrome.
“Coming here and doing a single period, obviously it’s hard to take points,” he said by way of introduction. But difficult to prove him wrong as the Lyonnais did not exist in the first half. With a single shot on target, that of Maxence Caqueret, from a free kick, at the very end of the period. The Lyonnais were suffocated by the pressing of Igor Tudor’s men, and wasted far too much on their rare occasion. “In the use of the ball, we are too mediocre. When we won the ball, we only made bad choices. After a corner for them, we have a three against one and we make the wrong choice, at the wrong time, ”he said.
Harmless, Laurent Blanc’s men also conceded a goal from a corner by Samuel Gigot, just before the break (44th). And again, it’s the players’ fault: “On the goal there is a huge marking error on our part. »
“The players were not in the game”
Enough to push him to make two changes at halftime, with the exits of Houssem Aouar and Moussa Dembélé for Jeff Reine-Adélaide and Karl Toko Ekembi. In the second, the OL players existed a lot more but above all thanks to “more space” left by the players, but “still had to be better”, lamented Laurent Blanc again.
The Lyonnais could have equalized without a very good Pau Lopez, who saved the Marseillais several times, often ahead of Alexandre Lacazette. The only one, perhaps to collect points from his trainer. “People who score we have them,” he recalled, pointing instead to the problems in the animation. “The system is one thing, the animation is another. The players are there to animate and they weren’t in on it. Clear, except that he had decided to line up two very young players in the middle, Caqueret, 20, and Lepenant, 19.
After the two positive results collected against Lille (1-0) and Montpellier (1-2), OL fell back into their traps against opponents who were doing well for them, with only one victory for Marseille in the last 15 games. “These are games in which we play points. Not friendly matches, we had to take points, ”he repeated, as he has done since his arrival in Lyon. It now remains to collect a few in Nice next Friday, before the World Cup break which will allow him to really take charge of this workforce.
Source: 20minutes
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