During Euro 2024, Jorge Sampaoli analyzed the game of the French team. The Argentinian technician had notably talked about Ousmane Dembélé by saying that he was playing “like an autistic”. A statement that had made controversial at the time. This Sunday, the former OM coach wanted to come back to these somewhat delicate remarks with the Spanish press.
This season, Ousmane Dembélé has established itself as the real boss of PSG. French is in the form of his life and his statistics prove it. The striker has already scored 33 goals and it’s not over yet. High -level performances that make him a credible candidate for Ballon d’Or.
Sampaoli had gathered about Dembélé
But before being a marking machine, Ousmane Dembélé was not unanimous. The current player of PSG had notably been widely criticized by Jorge Sampaoli During theEuro 2024who had treated him with autistic in the columns of So Foot. “When he overflows, the other players are like spectators who look at how the action will end. They know that they play like an autistic: it begins the action and ends it on its own. He does not have the capacity to make a teammate shine, he just knows how to be shined himself. »»
Sampaoli is explained
Inevitably, the words chosen by Jorge Sampaoli had caused a stir. A controversy to which the former coach of theWhether with Sport This Sunday. “I expressed myself very badly. I am very emotional and passionate, and all I wanted to say is that Dembélé is not an associative player. He looks at the opponent much more and the goal than his teammates. For me, it is one of the best in the world, but in a context like that of Barça, where the association is necessary, it isolates itself and is not as efficient. He plays his game, he does it very well, but I value authority and associative football. »»
