Not retained by Olympique de Marseille, Maxime Lopez reluctantly left his training club. But the midfielder soon found Sassuolo smiling, where the methods of coach Roberto De Zerbi had already won him over.
Maxime Lopez opened his counter with Sassuolo.
Maxime Lopez launched in depth, and which carries out a small festival in the opposing defense, before deceiving the goalkeeper with coolness… It is unheard of the Olympique de Marseille.
Proof that the 22-year-old is loose under his new colors. It must be said that Sassuolo’s surprising team plays a game adapted to its profile.
Lopez with another loco
It is no coincidence that the trainer Roberto De Zerbi pushed for the conclusion of his loan with option to buy. I took him because he is good, he knows how to play football and has lived a hundred games with Marseille at the Vlodrome, he knows how to play in the face of significant pressure , praised the technician after the first goal of his rookie Naples (0-2) on Sunday.
Suddenly, Lopez is having a blast with the current 2nd in Serie A. And this despite a daily life totally upset by a particularly picky coach. Maybe even as loco as a certain Marcelo Bielsa, his former trainer OM. Coach De Zerbi reminds me a bit of coach Bielsa in detail. He is crazy about detail, compared the torchbearer on the airwaves of RMC. We do a lot of tactics in training and he is really into detail, everything has to be precise.
Italian rigor
Work on the strengths and weaknesses of the opponent? Exactly. And even on us, he wants the movements to be made in detail because he knows that if we do it well, we will get out of situations. , explained the former Marseillais. Suffice to say that the sessions are much more difficult than the Commandery. Completely! Honestly, it is above all the rigor that is more important , insisted the one who has so far played 3 matches in Serie A.
With the Villas-Boas coach, the training was nevertheless intense and quite long. But here in Italy, we can arrive for training at 1 p.m. and return home at almost 8 p.m., said the native of Marseille. That is to say that the coach does not say: good today, we are doing an hour and a half. An exercise can last 45 minutes or an hour because he still doesn’t have what he wants. It is a rigor and the Italians have it in their skin in everything that is leadership. I’ve been there for a month and I’m starting to instill it in myself. In view of its potential, we would not be surprised to see it progress in the coming months.
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