Rothen ridiculed after OL qualified

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The sports consultant perhaps should not have been so virulent towards the OL coach.

On Wednesday, Olympique Lyonnais validated their ticket to the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France, beating LOSC (2-1). Before this meeting, Pierre Sage had explained that he would rotate his squad, giving priority to remaining in Ligue 1.

A speech that was not to Jérôme Rothen’s taste. “But he doesn’t care about the world? No, but honestly. He is nice. Today, you are saying: “we are playing Lille at home but the priority is to maintain”. But stop with your maintenance priority! But what does that mean? You play the poster child for this tour and you talk to us about maintaining”was offended by the sports consultant, on the airwaves of RMC, a few moments before the match.

Rothen targeted without being named

After the Rhone qualification, Anthony Réveillère did not miss it. “There were little thoughts, I’m filming, I’m not filming. We play heads or tails. First of all, you have to know football, you have to know the coaching profession. This turnover was done intelligently because it kept the structure. By injecting new blood with bases around it »analyzed the former right-back on OL TVtaking care not to name Rothen.

“We mainly rotated offensively, and that allowed us to bring fresh players onto the bench to manage the end of the game. It’s not a gamble, and a group is being born. We will need everyone in this collective”warned the man who played 413 matches in the colors of OL between 2003 and 2013.

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