On the sidelines of OL’s defeat on the Brest pitch this Saturday, Sidney Govou castigated the Rhone club’s management of the crisis.
For Fabio Grosso’s first on the bench of Olympique Lyonnais against Brest (1-0), this Saturday, Les Gones (2 draws, 4 defeats) conceded a new defeat, the fourth this season. A new failure in the championship for the Rhone residents, seventeenth with two points, one length behind the red lantern, Clermont, which brought the former legend of the club, Sidney Govou, out of his hinges.
“After the defeat at Brest (1-0, editor’s note), I heard again: ‘We are OL, it’s unacceptable, it’s unacceptable…’ I can’t stand this sentence anymorethus released Ponot. She annoys me more than anything else. ‘We are Olympique Lyonnais’, that no longer means anything. We have to stop imagining what OL should be. Today, the club has the ranking it deserves. The reality is that the club is second to last. I’m not saying it to annoy, it’s factual, period. »
The 2006 world vice-champion, however, believes that the players are not the only ones responsible for the crisis plaguing the residents of Groupama Stadium. “And it’s not just because of the players on the pitch. It’s an entire organization, a way of operating that is in question. I don’t understand this inability to be self-critical. We live in an image, a very distant past which no longer exists. You have to think in the short term and remedy problems quickly. (…) We can be worried. It will be a complicated season. We must stop talking about European objectives. But the positive point is that this crisis occurs at the start of the season. This could help redress the situation. »
