It was not good to be a player from Saint-Etienne this Sunday evening at Geoffroy-Guichard. Ask Baptiste Gabard, Lucas Gourna-Douath, Aïmen Moueffek or Yvan Neyou, what they thought of the OL midfielder in this derby. The midfield symbolized the outrageous domination of the Gones over their rivals this Sunday evening. “There was a gap class“, noted Timothée Kolodziejczak at the microphone of Téléfoot. Rather three or four would be tempted to correct.
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“It’s hard to accept, of course. We are angry with ourselves for making it easy for this team, enraged a very helpless Claude Puel. We hoped, despite everything that happened to us, a better match with more quality and suspense, more collective aggressiveness and in particular on the stopped phases. Especially on a derby day, we can’t accept it“The worst thing for ASSE is that this scathing 0-5 at home is not the result of a lack of commitment or repeated mistakes, even if the four on set pieces hurt . “We did not know how to exist, quite simply against a technically skilled opponent. We were too poor in the defensive aspect and from there we cannot exist.”
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OL left Saint-Etienne no chance
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Puel tried but Garcia’s plan choked him
The final score is the result of a level difference that is too large not to be screaming. “There is hardly anything to say“, abounded Denis Bouanga. “A bad evening, we weren’t good, we were taken for a ride from the 1st to the 90th minute. We didn’t see the light of day. It’s a big slap.“, supports Thimothée Kolodziejczak.”Explain … it’s difficulteven blurted out Puel. We started with a team to try to be compact and to recover the ball. We didn’t know how to do it“.
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Maxence Caqueret, Bruno Guimaraes and Thiago Mendes reigned supreme over the midfield, playing with such ease and confidence that they were considered world-class players. It must be said that Rudi Garcia had perfectly prepared his shot, betting on an opposing 4-4-2 and using the width to completely put Sainté upside down. And to get himself many dangerous set pieces. With the result that we know.
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We apologize for spoiling this evening
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On the Lyonnais side, smiles rose to their ears from the final whistle, and even before. “The supporters made us vibrate this morning, we made them vibrate this Sunday evening“, recalls a Léo Dubois who played an extremely important role in the Lyon installation in the opposing camp. For Garcia,”it’s almost a perfect night. There is no ranking that is worth in the derby, no strength involved, just to have heart, just to win. If we can do it with content, in the way, it’s always better. “This 5-0, which echoes that of November 6, 2017, obviously responds to the last assertion. To the happiness of some and the misfortune of others who refused to hide behind a preparation largely disrupted by the Covid.
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“The coach did with“, notes Bouanga at the microphone of Téléfoot while Rudi Garcia admitted afterwards that he did not know which team his counterpart would align.”It was the soap opera of the week“. Last week’s soap opera no doubt, but Covid or not, the humiliation is there.”We apologize for spoiling this evening“, finally concluded Denis Bouanga. At least, the green supporters did not attend a new disappointment to Geoffroy-Guichard. Little consolation.
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