Before the Derby du Nord between Lille and Lens, the Portuguese defender of LOSC, José Fonte, who, at 38, played all the Ligue 1 matches in their entirety, returned to the columns of The voice of the North on the altercation between his teammate Hatem Ben Arfa and his trainer Jocelyn Gourvennec. The Lille captain prefers to leave that in the past: “everyone saw what happened and now it’s behind us. The locker room focused on making a good final sprint. There is nothing more to say. That’s a shame.”
The former PSG player had criticized his coach for being small arms while LOSC are champions of France. Some supporters seemed to agree with HBA, which the 2016 European champion with Portugal does not understand: “I don’t agree with that. Against Bordeaux, we have situations to score. We have three goals disallowed. It’s not a match without chances where we all wait behind while defending. It’s a meeting where we did things to win. If we don’t, the coach can’t do anything about it. He is not in the field. If you prove to me that we have no chances, I say okay, we have to change something. But this is not the case. It’s up to us to be better. We are all behind Jocelyn Gourvennec.” A captain loyal to his coach.
