Will French football have the honor of having a representative this season in the Europa League Conference? Losc will in any case not be fixed until August 31, on the Adriatic coast, and its qualification for the group stage promises to be complex, after its short success (2-1) Thursday against the modest Croatian club Rijeka. This jump-off to accession to the Europa League Conference, which saw Rijeka lead thanks to Pasalic (0-1, 24th), before Zhegrova (1-1, 43rd) then Yoro (2-1, 89th) n tear off the essentials, did not please either the coach or the president of the Lille club.
They indeed railed against the attitude of their players after the meeting. “We lacked humility during this match”, first lambasted Paulo Fonseca in a press conference, pointing out the weak involvement of his group in this decisive European meeting. “We didn’t fight enough to win and, honestly, I don’t like the game we had,” continued the Portuguese coach.
“We did not like the attitudes”, warns Létang
Olivier Létang was on the same wavelength, and his simple presence in the mixed zone showed that he wanted to send a message to the group after this short and sluggish success, also marked by the injuries of Bafodé Diakité and Adam Ounas . “We did not like the attitudes, he calmly pointed out. If we think it will be easy, if we arrive on the field being calm, we cannot pass. Is it a mindset issue? We’re going to talk about it with the boys, but that’s internal. »
Author of a correct start to the season, with four points taken in two days of Ligue 1, Losc can however rely on “a group which still has personality”, as President Létang insisted. And this in the image of Lenny Yoro, decisive scorer Thursday for the first European match of his promising career, at only 17 years old.