Laurent Blanc (Lyon coach, beaten 1-2 by Marseille): “It’s very cruel. I think the splitting of points would have been fairer. We had a match point, too. The score that would have best reflected the match would have been 1-1. I am not frustrated, because we are making progress on certain points. But I am frustrated with the result. We had a promising first half but we find ourselves at 1-0 because we made a mistake. You cannot describe this kind of disappointment. We don’t take this point because we don’t do exactly the right thing until the last second. Anthony Lopes was incredible, Pau Lopez was not bad either. It means that there were opportunities, a lot of players in the surfaces, offensive projections. It’s football that I love. We bothered them. They take a lot of risks, they play one against one behind. We took risks too but we were not rewarded. Igor sees football like that and that’s very good. But you have to accept to concede a lot. When you take zero points, you are doing a bad operation. Let’s stop watching what’s happening at the neighbor’s, let’s take care of ourselves. Let’s do what we have to do. This will be the case for the remaining six matches. We must not project ourselves”.
Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon striker): “There is a lot of disappointment. We must not forget that OM had many chances and that Antho (Lopes) keeps us in the game. To take this goal like that at the end, it’s infuriating. We could have done even better with the use of the ball. Against these teams against which we don’t have many chances, we have to put them in the background. And me, the first I have to put it at the bottom. That’s a shame. It’s a match in our image. We’re not far from… but in the end we don’t take any points. Mathematically, no, we haven’t said goodbye to Europe. You have to take game after game. You have to see at the end. Then we can discuss. The fans were there the whole game. We also wanted to give them this victory because we know it’s important for them. We are the first disappointed”.
Dejan Lovren (Lyon defender): “It’s crap. That’s a shame. I can’t say we deserve a point. But we gave the goal at the last minute. We did everything well in the second half. Alexandre scored, we came back. There were thirty seconds left. It’s the little things. These are the mistakes we make and it’s really a shame. These matches are played on the small details. And we are not focused until the end. We made some mistakes that are unacceptable to me. But if we remove these, we can move forward. We need to watch when we concede the goals. We don’t need to waste such balloons. There are a few games left until the end and we can’t let go now. There are six matches left, it is still possible for Europe.
2023-04-23 21:58:19
#Laurent #Blanc #rewarded
