Beaten 3-2 in Monaco for his first match at the helm of OM, Gennaro Gattuso is concerned by his team’s defensive concerns.
This is not the result he had hoped for for his first time at the head of OM, but Gennaro Gattuso does not want to throw everything in the trash after the Olympians’ defeat in Monaco (3-2) on Saturday evening. “I liked the attitude of my players and their state of mind, the personality of the team, reacted the Italian coach at a press conference, before recognizing some problems. We can do better, that’s obvious. There are things to improve. »
The score indicates it, it is obviously on the defensive level that OM suffered at Louis-II. “We conceded three avoidable goals. On the first we are not marking, on the second the same, on the third we can do better,” regrets Gattuso.
For the former coach of Milan and Naples, there is work ahead. “It is not easy to correct this, he explains, in comments reported by La Provence. It’s not just the problem of the defensive line, of my four defenders, it’s a problem of the whole team. The whole collective is concerned. We conceded ten goals in three matches, it’s an alarming figure. We have to work on that, that’s the only way we can get out of this situation but we have to keep our heads high. »
Gattuso wants to see his team “defend together, play together”and hopes to impose his mark on his team. “The game I want to play is not easy but I am optimistic”, he said. The problem is that he is the third OM coach in the space of a few months, and he does not have quite the same ideas as his predecessors. “It should be noted that last season, this team played one against one in all areas of the pitch, that with Marcelino they played with two lines of four and did not do a lot of offensive pressing”notes Gattuso.
