Author of a last draw on the lawn of FC Metz (1-1), Olympique Lyonnais closed a first part of the season in a disappointing thirteenth place in Ligue 1. The day after this new hitch, Peter Bosz was expressed at the microphone of OL Play to return to this missed start, its future but also the winter transfer window of the Rhone club.
Six wins, seven draws, five defeats for a lackluster thirteenth place, despite a late match linked to the incidents at Groupama Stadium against OM, here is Lyon’s sad record at the start of the 2021-2022 season. This finding is all the more alarming when we know that, last season, OL finished the first leg of the championship in first place in the Ligue 1 standings, with one point more than Paris Saint-Germain (40 against 39 ). Arrived in Rhone lands last summer, Peter Bosz (58) surely did not expect such a gap. Enough to bring the Dutch technician to train, at the microphone ofOL Play, an unflattering but realistic first assessment of the difficulties encountered by the Lyonnais this season.
“We can’t be stable, play well for 90 minutes. Yesterday, before the match (against Metz), we talked among ourselves, we said to ourselves that we had to give everything, that it was the last match of the year. And I haven’t seen that afterwards. It was like our season so far. People have told me that this has already been the problem here for years, that the team was not regular, that it was not able to perform well at the right time. A lack of consistency which is also reflected statistically: my assistants showed me a ranking of the minutes you lose in a match. It’s weird, but we were the best ranked, we are the team with the fewest minutes to lose a game. In front of PSG, OM, Rennes. But we are 13th in the standings. You really have to look at what the problem is. Concentration? The coach who makes bad changes? The player who returns and who does not give everything? “
Peter Bosz is not worried about his future!
An observation which therefore inevitably leads the new coach of Gones to question the factors that could explain such results. And at this level, Peter Bosz assures us: the problem is not physical but rather mental: “We can know our data on a physical level. If there are any problems, we see it right away. We have improved a lot, especially with our game, because I want a lot of intensity, so a lot of sprints. For that, I know that it is not a physical problem. But mentally, in terms of concentration, if the opponent scores, are the players really on it… How many times do we score a minute before the opponent draws the equalizer? “ Recognizing all the same the contribution of certain young people such as Malo Gusto or Castello Lukeba, the former tactician of Ajax also wanted to raise Anthony Lopes to the rank of satisfaction, without which for him the OL “Would be even lower”.
A few rays of sunshine in a Lyon sky which despite everything remains very dark and for which the coach of Gones did not want to clear customs: “It’s me (the manager). Because I put the players on the pitch. I never say that the players do bad things, I say ‘we’, I’m part of the team. As a coach, you are always responsible. A share of responsibility which does not, however, push the coach to feel in danger: fortunately here there are people who look further. In the five months that I’ve been here, a lot of things have happened but I see how we’re going to get out of here, where I want to get with football and with the results. I have full confidence and I really see how we are going to do it. “ This assurance can also be confirmed by the confidence always granted by its president Jean-Michel Aulas.
Asked finally about the winter transfer window of OL, the coach of the Rhone however appeared much less verbose, grateful despite everything that“With the departure of Juninho, it’s a different organization”. Relaunched on whether the winter window would lead to change in the ranks of Lyon, Peter Bosz indulged in a flash message but at the very least clear: “it is necessary”, proclaimed the native of Apeldoorn. Orphan of Juninho, Olympique Lyonnais will certainly have to be active from January to correct the situation, and this with Bruno Cheyrou, just appointed technical advisor and director of male and female recruitment. In the meantime, there is no doubt that the winter break risks doing the greatest good to the heads of Lyon.
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