At a press conference, Moussa Niakhaté took on his responsibilities before OL – Toulouse (Saturday, 9:05 p.m.) and the day after the humiliation at Bourgoin-Jallieu.
The first player to speak following the sad elimination of OL on the Bourgoin-Jallieu pitch (2-2, 2-4 on the tab) yesterday in the Coupe de France, Moussa Niakhaté did not hide from the microphones .
“It’s shameful what we produced last night. It's a professional foul to be taken out like this against a team of 5th division (…) It’s unacceptable (…) It’s more than a questioning that we have to do,” said the Senegalese defender, very angry: “We have to say things to each other. The word shame is appropriate. Yesterday, we dirtied the club (…) We must recover from Saturday and restore the honor of the players.”
“The staff has nothing to do with it”
And Moussa Niakhaté was keen to defend Pierre Sage, inevitably threatened following this defeat: “Today, it's Olympique Lyonnais who are passing… You finish my sentence, you get the idea. It is us, the players, on the pitch, who are responsible. The staff has nothing to do with it. It's entirely the fault of the players, the lack of involvement and professionalism (…) None of us slept last night, it's shameful. »
Not the excuse of the Mercato or the match in Paris
Launched on the causes of this break when OL had seemed so solid against Eintracht Frankfurt a month ago, the former Nottingham Forest player refused the Mercato excuse (“We cannot hide behind That. Rumors have no impact. It's just us.”
-As for whether the PSG match had been the detonator of this bad spiral, there too he has no link in his eyes: “It's not possible that we lose everything in Paris. I don't think that Paris is the break but it is an observation that since Paris things are going less well. It’s a bad situation, we’re going to find the answers together.” Starting with the Toulouse match on Saturday evening. Match which could impact the direct future of Pierre Sage…
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