Bruno Genesio was at a press conference this Monday to introduce the upcoming meeting between LOSC and Juventus Turin. The technician is aware that a qualification is already at stake from the fall.
Recently neutralized by Olympique Lyonnais, LOSC must continue its march forward on Tuesday with the reception of Juventus Turin by Thiago Motta as part of the 4th day of the league phase of the Champions League. After having defeated Real and Atlético de Madrid, it is a third big piece which is preparing to oppose the Mastiffs, Mastiffs now uninhibited: “Each Champions League match is different, but in each of them there is a very important parameter, essential and necessary to perform well. It’s the commitment and the intensity. These are the conditions that make it possible to achieve a result”assures Bruno Genesio at a press conference this Monday.
It is in these two terms that the keys to the future duel lie and what is certain is that the speech of the Lille technician seemed more ambitious than what we have heard in the past, on this same European stage. . LOSC is now aware of its potential: “We are not going to deny ourselves. I had already said it before Real Madrid, but there is what we want to do, what we can do and what the opponent will allow us to do. It's always a balance of power in these kinds of matchescontinues Bruno Genesio. I believe that what is important is to be aware that we have already done two exploits and that we are able to do it once or twice, we must be able to reproduce it. We will play our luck to the fullest, even if it will be a very difficult match. We are at home. We have our audience who will be there and give us strength. We will play as we did in the other Champions League matches. »
“I never talk about results”
However, the reality remains that Juventus Turin is one of the biggest clubs in Italy and Bruno Genesio is well aware of that too. He knows this all the more since he never managed to win against the Old Lady with a draw and a defeat in two confrontations during the 2016-2017 season:
“We want to impose our game, but we also know that we will have to remain very solid because it is a team that is very well organized tactically. Thiago Motta already had a great tactical culture when he was a player. He passed it on to his team, which also has a lot of individuality and talent. They are a difficult team to play against and we will have to play an almost perfect match to obtain a positive result.”he repeated insistently in front of numerous media.
One defeat and two successes, LOSC already has six points in its bag in the Champions League and could already be mathematically qualified in the event of another victory. The studies carried out on the new formula of the Champions League confirm that it would take between seven and eleven points to reach the round of 16: “Statistically, we can say that we would have a two out of three chance of qualifying for the play-offsagrees Bruno Genesio, who nevertheless specifies that he does not mention this accounting reality to his men. In the chat, I very rarely talk about the result. I talk more about our way of playing, how to achieve this result, because I believe that it is the most important to win, but also to remove this slightly negative pressure from the objective of qualification and the result. raw. It's true that in the event of a good result, we would take a big step towards qualification which would be a great performance after four matches, especially having faced three of the four biggest teams in our competition. We're not there yet. We tend to forget that Juventus is a big club and it will still be very complicated tomorrow”concludes Bruno Genesio, ready to achieve a new feat.
