Not happy, the Pep from the north. Lille coach Bruno Genesio was very tough with his players after the draw (0-0) won by his team in Monaco, leader of Ligue 1, on Friday evening, a match during which he felt that “nothing worked”, the players having “not done what was planned”. We are far from the euphoria that followed the victory against Mbappé’s Real Madrid in the Champions League at the beginning of October.
To conclude his post-match press conference, Genesio did not go there with the back of the hammer: “When you play in density, when you know that it is a team which puts enormous pressure on losses. of the ball, that we ask to play on the outside, to play faster, to reverse the game, and that we play in the axis the ball at 20 cm with lateral passes, and that we are countered by a times, and we start again two, three times, it’s either because I don’t speak the right language, or we’re stupid. »
A perilous journey to Madrid on Tuesday for the Mastiffs
Previously, the former Lyonnais had frankly spoken of “a great purge” of his team. “I pity the viewers,” he said. We saved a point because Lucas Chevalier allowed us to save it. But it is largely insufficient compared to what we had planned to do.” And he continued: “That’s not the face I want to see from my team. I don’t want to exaggerate, but I think that sometimes there are defeats that are more encouraging than this match.” He was referring to the defeat in Saint-Etienne which had nevertheless pushed President Olivier Létang into a big rant.
“It’s not the same match as against Saint-Etienne, against whom we had chances,” he said. There, we did nothing. We were content to be in our own half, to give the ball back to Monaco and to give them weapons in what they liked to do. This had been identified and we did not do what we had planned to do. That’s what annoys me. » Genesio and his men will have to do much better (and much more) on Tuesday, since it is a trip to Madrid, to face Atlético of Diego Simeone and Antoine Griezmann, which awaits them.
