“Shame in front of the whole world”, Sage’s cold anger against his players

Disappointed during an impromptu press conference, the OL coach violently reprimanded his group which he had already criticized at half-time, in vain. Lyon took the door in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France, dominated (2-2, 2-4 tab) by Bourgoin-Jallieu, resident of N3.

Pierre Sage's cold anger stands out. Usually rather calm, the placid OL coach used strong words to describe the fiasco of his team, pitifully eliminated by the modest formation of Bourgoin-Jallieu (2-2, 2-4 tab), “a tragedy “. OL were coming off a defeat at Brest (1-2) last weekend, in Ligue 1.

“There is one thing that we will have to accept, and that is the shame, the shame in front of our loved ones, the shame in front of our families, the people who love this club, the shame in front of our leaders, the people who came to the stadium, the shame in front of the whole world It's a duty to beat a team that plays four levels below”, railed the OL coach, disgusted by the behavior of his players. whom he had nevertheless warned, and even reprimanded half-time, after a nightmarish first period.

“Neither pride nor honor”

“That’s what I told them at half-time. I didn’t have the chance they had to be a great coach and a talented player so I experienced those levels,” declared Pierre Sage in front of a swarm of microphones who came to collect his impressions, while the Bourgoin-Jallieu players celebrated their qualification in the adjoining locker room.

“I know exactly how these things are experienced, the ingredients that are necessary when you are a professional club facing an amateur club. Today, in our first half, we denied too many, too many, too many principles “We didn't show pride or honor, and in that sense, I think Bourgoin deserves his qualification given the match we produced.”

“When we leave the initiative, the intensity and even the ball to an opponent who plays four levels below, it means that we are not there and that we do not measure the consequences of a defeat like this, we didn't do the right thing, we'll have to take responsibility for it.”