During a press conference this Monday, Bafodé Diakité looked ahead to the upcoming meeting. He expects a meeting to be tactically difficult.
In a few hours, LOSC will face Juventus of Thiago Motta and Timothy Weah, a duel that Bafodé Diakité is eager to play: “This club makes me dream? I think everyone in the room would have the same answerhe said, smiling. It's a dream club where great players have come through and done great things. It's something extra to play against these kinds of teams and it gives extra motivation to give your best and surpass yourself.”said the central defender, determined.
A dreamer, Bafodé Diakité will not be in the moonlight this Tuesday, at 9 p.m., when he will have to compete with Dusan Vlahovic and the Turin offensive players. The successes against Real (1-0) then against Atlético de Madrid (1-3) do not add extra confidence to the Mastiffs, who know what they have to do:
“No (the recent results do not change our way of thinking, editor’s note). We know that Juventus is a very great team. We're expecting a complicated match and I don't think we're going to be favorites. We will have the same role as at the start of the competition. We're going to do what we have to do, play our match and we'll do the math at the endhe said. It's going to be a complicated match because it's a different way of playing and a different team in front of us. We will have to give everything. In content, it will be a different match from Atlético de Madrid or Real, but in terms of difficulty, it will be as much or even harder”he said, surprising the majority of journalists present in the room.
From an accounting point of view, this part could already prove decisive for LOSC which, in the event of a victory or a draw, would take a further step towards qualification. However, unlike his coach, Bafodé Diakité is not a fan of numbers: “We don’t think about that. We do it game by game. We know that our performances have consequences, but we first think about what we have to do on the ground. We play the match hard, we give our all and we'll see later. The most successful thing is that our match is successful, whether it goes our way or not”concluded the former Toulousain, captain of the Lille defense.
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