Emmanuel LANGELLIER, Media365, published on Saturday October 19, 2024 at 8:43 a.m.
Despite Monaco’s point (0-0), Friday evening at the opening of the 8th day of Ligue 1, Bruno Genesio, the Lille coach, did not appreciate his team’s performance.
The 8th day of Ligue 1 started on a promising basis. The clash between AS Monaco and Lille, proposed at the start of the resumption of the Championship, after the international break marked in particular by the two victories of the French team against Israel (4-1) and Belgium (2-1) , suggested play and a lively start at the Stade Louis-II, Friday evening. We were waiting for the poster between the leader and the 5th in the ranking, and on their home field, the Monegasque team put in the ingredients to quickly take the advantage. Pressing, intensity, pace, ASM dominated for around twenty minutes, but did not score. Then the match became disappointing. Monaco played the last half hour with ten men after the deserved expulsion of Jordan Teze in the 61st minute, the cards multiplied, and Lille was unable to take advantage of its numerical superiority (0-0). LOSC could even have lost without a superb save from Lucas Chevalier in front of Denis Zakaria in the final moments.
Genesio: “I hate seeing my team play like I saw them tonight”
Bruno Genesio was angry after the meeting. The LOSC coach did not like the production of his players at all. “We saw a great purge, I pity the viewers. Lucas (Chevalier) allowed us to save a point, but it is largely insufficient compared to what we had planned to do,” said the northern technician, furious. “I hate seeing my team play like I saw them tonight. I always have the habit of prioritizing content over results, because I am convinced that it is thanks to that that we can move forward. We took one point, that’s good, for the rest there is nothing else to say or remember, continued Genesio. The opposing pressure? We knew it was going to happen like this, we had planned things and we didn’t do them. This is what annoys me a lot. It’s either because we didn’t have the ability to do it, or because we wanted to play differently than what I wanted and that bothers me. We can look for lots of explanations and excuses, but there are things that have not been respected and that really annoys me. »
Before looking ahead to the Champions League and the match against Atlético de Madrid on Wednesday, the Lille coach did not lose heart. “There was a way to counteract this pressure, we did it once or twice but it was too little over an hour and a half and even more so having played one more player for 30 minutes. I am very disappointed with the face we showed today. » LOSC will play its next Championship match in Lens, next Saturday (9:00 p.m., 9th day).
