Defeated by Arsenal in the Emirates Cup this Sunday (0-2), Olympique Lyonnais could not do much against one of the best teams in Europe. A feeling of helplessness that does not please Pierre Sage.
By spending more than 130 million euros in the transfer window, between summer transfers and using options to buy loans from last season, the Rhone club tried to build the best team to return to the top in L1 but also in the European Cup. . Except this Sunday, in their last friendly against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, OL suffered the law of the strongest. Trailing 0-2 with goals from Saliba and Gabriel in the first half hour of play, it is clear that Lyon are still not on par with the best clubs playing in the League of the Champions. A feeling shared by Pierre Sage, who knows that his team had already gone out in this way in the final of the Coupe de France against PSG last May (1- 2).
“We are still far from what we are capable of”
🎙️ Pierre Sage’s comment after our loss during #RESOL
– Olympique Lyonnais (@OL) August 11, 2024
“After this friendly against Arsenal, I have the same feeling as after our cup final: we were frustrated in the first place and we reacted in the second, without to be up to the task, despite two circumstances. At first we struggled to get the balls out of the opposition’s pressure. We only managed to do what we had planned once, and we had a situation, it’s difficult. If we had been more proactive… Arsenal’s pressure hindered us. And football is not just played tactically. You need other ingredients like confidence, mentality, where you failed. We shook the group on these sides. We deserve to lose against such an opponent, but not in this way. It was better in second place, but we are still far from what we can do. “explained, in the columns of Progrès, the coach of Lyon, who hopes that his team will remember the mistakes of the past to approach the L1 restart against Rennes next week with the best face.
2024-08-11 20:03:38
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