Jean-Pierre Papin is clear: attackers today do not work specifically enough.
OM this season has a problem with offensive efficiency. Like its leading attackers Vitinha and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the Marseille club is struggling to create chances and make them come true. Special advisor to President Pablo Longoria, Jean-Pierre Papin deplores it and seems to declare himself powerless this Wednesday on the airwaves of RMC: “ In France, it is not our custom to make specific », he observes.
Workaholic while he piled up the goals in Marseille, the 1991 Ballon d’Or trumpeted on the air: “ Attackers are like goalkeepers: if we don’t review our ranges every day, we lose our bearings. (…) For ten years, I did this every day. It was a pleasure, it was not a chore. For forty minutes, we knocked 200 times… »
Fear of injury
According to JPP, such a repetition is now almost unimaginable. For fear of injury from overwork. “ There are players who want to do it, but the coach is closed to this specific work. What the coach doesn’t understand is that we (the attackers), mentally, physically, and in our everyday actions, we need it. We are not talking about strength here, but about precision so that the foot finds the right angle. »
