The evening had been catastrophic. Overtaken in all areas of play, Olympique Lyonnais took a football lesson on Sunday evening on the lawn of Roazhon Park. Beaten 4-1 by a burning Stade Rennais, Peter Bosz’s men delivered a poor performance that is still difficult to explain. The OL coach did not hide after the match, believing that his team “could already be 4-0 at half-time”. Unable to move the daring 4-3-3 concocted by their former coach Bruno Genesio, the Lyonnais lived a nightmare to the rhythm of the passes of a resplendent Lovro Majer. Punished by a goal from Gaëtan Laborde, another from Hamari Traoré and a double from Adrien Truffert who had just come into play, the Gones took a suitcase in Brittany. At the end of the meeting, Juninho even expressed his “shame” at such a performance. But in the Rennes ranks, other words uttered by the Brazilian did not get through.
What was Juninho targeting?
While he had recognized “the lesson” of football inflicted by his opponent, the Lyon sports director cracked a strange exit. “Congratulations to the opponent who was better, even if I think they lacked a bit of class after the 4-0”, launched Juni before continuing.
These words did not really please Rennes president Jacques Delanoë, who settled his accounts on the sidelines of a meeting with the press on Monday. “I got it a little bit across my throat. For me, the joy expressed by the people in the stands is not a lack of class. I think he could have avoided saying that ”. While Rennes led 4-0, the public started a few “olé” on each of the passes of the Rouge et Noir, who then made the pass to ten. Was this what Juninho was targeting? Or the few technical gestures attempted by euphoric Rennes residents, like a Flavien Tait roulette wheel? We won’t know.
Is that what he was referring to Juninho with his “they lacked class after the 4-0” big victim?
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Lyon-style quarrels
Annoyed by the exit of Juninho, the Rennes president split a small spike in the direction of the evening’s opponent. “When I see two guys fighting to shoot a penalty, I don’t find it very classy,” added Jacques Delanoë, a bit resentful. He refers to the altercation that erupted in added time, when Paqueta insisted on taking the penalty he had just caused, which annoyed Aouar. The French environment has also complained to its captain Léo Dubois.
Drowned all evening, the former Nantes man had a beak with Jérôme Boateng in the first half. “It’s emotion, when things don’t turn out in your favor, we talked together. We did not communicate well on the ground, it is normal ”, tempered the German defender at the microphone ofAmazon Prime Video. An evening to forget for the Lyonnais.