After the debacle in Nice, Jorge Sampaoli, the coach of Olympique de Marseille, appeared before the media before the confrontation in Metz on Sunday evening. He justified himself and responded to criticism.
Needless to say that all of Olympique de Marseille and its supporters were hungover this Thursday morning after the terrible elimination in the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France against OGC Nice (1-4). Duje Caleta-Car, at a press conference this Friday, also evoked a kind of heavy atmosphere after the match and the next day. But Jorge Sampaoli, the OM coach, was also expected in front of the media.
Thus, El Pelado arrived, mine quite closed and once again mentioned his curious choices (in particular a defense with four centrals): “ I personally don’t look at reviews or praise, I don’t pay attention to them. My goal is to do my best to win. For us, the strategy we put in place is to try to make the best decisions for each match. It’s normal. In this club, you have to win at all costs. We do not make a more global analysis. If we win this match, the analysis would have been different. In the second period, we put Saliba in the center and Rongier on the right, we still conceded two goals. We had the same behavior elsewhere and we had different results. It was the efficiency in both surfaces, which counted “.
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But that’s not all. Since this elimination and especially the poor performance in Lyon, ten days ago, the coach has been under fire from critics. His tactical choices were clearly surprising and we could have attributed OM’s two big defeats to him. He also wanted to explain himself on this this Friday at the start of the afternoon.
” It doesn’t change my desire to win. We know there will be criticism. All the goals are linked to the fact that we played badly. We gave away the ball we often had. It may be too easy to have a criticism of a result. For me, the analysis is deeper than what you can do at the bar “, he expressed himself. It will again be in the spotlight this Sunday evening, in Metz…
