“Either I don’t speak the right language, or we are stupid,” makes Genesio angry

2024-10-18 22:09:00

The Northern coach was delighted with his team’s performance in Munich (0-0) on Friday evening.

Lille coach Bruno Genesio was very harsh on his players after Lille’s draw at Monaco (0-0) on Friday evening, a match during which he had the feeling that “nothing worked”players not having “did not do what was planned”.

In the final sentence of the post-match press conference, Genesio did not mince his words: “When you play densely, when you know that it is a team that puts enormous pressure on when it loses the ball (Monaco, ed.), that we are asked to play wide, to play faster, to turn the game around, and we play the ball in line with 20 cm with lateral passages, and we get stuck once, and we start again two, three times, or I don’t speak the right language, or we’re stupid. “

Previously, he had acknowledged this “a nice purge” of his team. “I feel compassion for the spectators,” he said. We saved a point because Lucas (Chevalier, the goalkeeper, ed.) allowed us to do so. But it is largely insufficient compared to what we had planned to do”.

And to continue: “This is not the face I want to see from my team. I don’t want to exaggerate, but I think that sometimes there are more encouraging defeats than this match..

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“Nothing worked,” he said. We didn’t do what we had planned, even though defensively we contained Monaco, despite their great chance late in the game. We have to do much better. I think we were happy to play 0-0. But above all we didn’t do what we had planned and that’s what bothers me the most.”

If he did not speak to his players in the dressing room, he stressed that it was worse than during the defeat at Saint-Etienne, where their president had criticized them.

“It’s not the same game as against Saint-Etienne, against whom we had chances,” he said. We didn’t do anything there. We were happy to be in our half of the field, to give the ball back to Monaco and give them weapons in what they liked to do. This had been identified and we didn’t do what we planned to do. This is what bothers me. Lille travel to Madrid to face Atletico in the Champions League on Wednesday.