If OL won their first match of the year against Montpellier (1-0) this Saturday, Pierre Sage and Alexandre Lacazette were clearly not satisfied… And they made it known.
Pierre Sage: “Did OL carry out a hold-up at home? Yes. Today, we really struggled to develop our offensive game (…) We cannot be satisfied with that and we must consider that we were very, very well paid this evening and that the opponent deserved much better. How do I explain this non-match? This is the problem of contagions. When players start to run well, it lifts everyone up and conversely, when certain attitudes start to take hold, it has effects on the partners. This evening, we left aside the basics which made our game (…) If we want to be ambitious, we cannot play that way.
This evening, the substitutes brought dynamism. But in a fairly disorganized setting. I'm not entirely satisfied with the match, whether it's the starters or the substitutes. It's a whole and I don't want to take shots at the replacements. I prefer to consider the service as a whole. OL had a bad match tonight and need to work a lot more next week. As I told the players at half-time, if we respect each other and if we respect the people who come to the stadium, we have no right to deliver a performance like that (…) Our social security is is to win the last 15-16 matches and there we lost our level of play. We have to find it again to be efficient over time. We cannot reproduce that over the last 15-16 matches (…) There are things that you do not see and if the players were happy in the locker room, they were also angry with their collective performance this evening. I think each of them wants to quickly return to training to restore our image. Tonight was a no-cost warning.”
Lacazette: “Absolutely nothing worked”
Like Pierre Sage, Alexandre Lacazette was not satisfied and, like a good captain, he explained it orally to the media in the mixed zone: “It's not easy when we don't put our game into play. place and we don't follow the instructions (…) What didn't work this evening? All ! Absolutely nothing worked. In the use of the ball, in the positioning, in the races… This is not what was planned. We are going to take a good look at this match and erase what went wrong (…) Tonight, the game was not satisfactory. In this match, the whole team was bad. There is not a player who stood out.” We will have understood, the victory was not enough for OL this Saturday evening against Montpellier (1-0).
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