“Either I don’t speak the right language, or we’re stupid,” enrages Genesio

Lille coach Bruno Genesio was very hard on his players after Lille’s draw at Monaco (0-0) on Friday evening, a match during which he felt that “nothing worked”the players not having “did not do what was planned”.

During his concluding sentence of the post-match press conference, Genesio did not mince his words: “When you play in density, when you know that it is a team which puts enormous pressure on losing the ball (Monaco, editor’s note), that we are asked to play on the outside, to play faster, to overthrow the game, and we play the ball in the axis at 20 cm with lateral passes, and we get blocked once, and we start again twice, three times, it’s either that I don’t don’t speak the right language, or we’re stupid.”

Previously, he had recognized “a nice purge” of his team. “I pity the viewers,” he said. We saved a point because Lucas (Chevalier, the goalkeeper, editor’s note) allowed us to save it. But it is largely insufficient compared to what we had planned to do”.

And to continue: “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..

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“Nothing worked,” he said. We didn’t do what we had planned, even if defensively we contained Monaco, despite their big chance at the end of the match. We must do much better. I think we were content to play 0-0. But above all, we didn’t do what we planned to do, and that’s what annoys me the most.”

If he did not speak to his players in the locker room, he stressed that it was worse than during the defeat at Saint-Etienne, where their president had criticized them.

“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.” Lille travels to Madrid on Wednesday against Atletico in the Champions League.