Daniel Riolo guns Luis Enrique for Dembélé

Yesterday, several media announced that Luis Enrique had decided to leave Ousmane Dembélé at home despite the match against Arsenal in the Champions League. Information confirmed a few hours later during the announcement of the group selected to travel to London then at a press conference by Luis Enrique. The latter explained the reasons for his choice, while specifying that he had not clashed with the Frenchman. But the Asturian coach’s explanations did not convince everyone. This is the case of Daniel Riolo. On the waves of RMC Sportthe journalist criticized “Lucho”. “With all the reservations that I am the first to have about Ousmane Dembélé, I am not a big fan of this player, he is in your squad. He is there. And when he’s there, whether you like him or not, good, bad, clumsy, left foot, right foot, whatever you want, he’s the man who creates the most danger on your team. Barcola carries out the actions, but the one who creates the most danger and who, in addition, has even been a little effective this year, is Dembélé. How can you manage to put yourself in such a situation, on the eve of the most important match, to fall out with a key player in your squad? How are you going to make this decision by throwing it in everyone’s face? You are going to justify yourself by wasting a quarter of an hour in a press conference for a very important Champions League match. It’s a failure situation.”

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He then added: “Last year I said that Luis Enrique was not a fan of Dembélé and that if there had been a way to make him leave… He is not a Luis Enrique type player and he will not be Never. When Dembélé misses something, look at Luis Enrique’s face. It’s not the face of a coach who applauds, who encourages, it’s the face of a coach who is sorry, sorry, drunk by this kind of failure. It doesn’t match his football. Luis Enrique is a dictator. He likes things to be square in a certain way. He has a vision, he is a dogmatist. Dembélé doesn’t fit into the box of the players he likes.” Luis Enrique still risks being costly if his PSG, without Dembélé, loses this evening at the Emirates Stadium.

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