After his team's defeat in Lyon this Sunday in Ligue 1 (1-0), Olivier Dall'Oglio, the coach of Saint-Etienne, estimated that the derby between the Gones and the Greens is of interest to the world of French football. Far beyond their geographical territory.
Saint-Etienne lost on the OL pitch this Sunday, at the end of the eleventh day of Ligue 1 (1-0). But Olivier Dall'Oglio still enjoyed leading the Greens during his first derby at Groupama Stadium. After the meeting, the 60-year-old coach, in office since December 2023, responded to criticism of the national enthusiasm surrounding this historic poster between the Gones and the Greens.
“These are exceptional things to experience. That's what I told the players, it's a match apart. The proof is that we played on a Sunday evening. That's what's more interesting that the region. It interests a lot of people in the world of football,” said Dall’Oglio. “It was a chance to play this derby here. I experienced it with intensity and happiness. To have played it with Saint-Etienne is magnificent.”
“A regional event” for Marion Bartoli
A few hours before the match, Marion Bartoli, native of Puy-en-Velay, had expressed reservations about the attractiveness of the derby between Lyon and Saint-Etienne in her show Bartoli Time on RMC. Considering that the wait was mainly local.
“The derby, I've heard a lot about it. But I heard about it in my little region. For me, it's a regional event,” said the former tennis player. “In the very great years of Saint-Etienne or in the very great years of Lyon, I would say that it was more in a national way because at least one of the two teams was at the very top. There, for me, that fascinates the fans of each team and there is this ancestral rivalry, but it remains a regional derby But I do not see all of France completely passionate about a Lyon-Saint-Etienne, currently due to the fact that there is no one. huge star in each of the teams and that they are rather in the middle, or even at the bottom of the ranking”.
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