Leonardo Balerdi had the mask out of the defeat conceded by Olympique de Marseille on the lawn of Olympique Lyonnais. And not only because it is already the second setback conceded by the sky and white after only three days of the championship.
Because if OM has bitten dust at Groupama Stadium, it is especially due to exclusion at half an hour of play CJ Egan-Riley. An expulsion that originates in a bad pass from … Leonardo Balerdi. “I take responsibility for the expulsion of CJ”also assumed a balerdi which appeared on the nerves in the mixed zone. Relaunched on the friability of the Olympian defense, the Argentinian got angry: “What friability? What ? “, He replied before turning to another journalist.
And Leonardo Balerdi could have him all the worse since he had covered Ludovic Blas on the Rennes goal who had crucified OM during the opening match and was also taken behind the second goal of Paris FC at the Vélodrome during the 3e daytime.
Leonardo Balerdi to the sidelines?
If Roberto de Zerbi made sure not to drive his player after the game on Sunday, Leonardo Balerdi was not spared from criticism. Monday, Provence So was scathing towards him, the renamer “Flemme captain” in reference to the cartoon hero “Captain Flam”. “The captain crosses a dark summer, symbolized by his goal against his camp, a catastrophic mixture of awkwardness and bad luck”,
wrote about it The team.
And this new calamitous performance intervened on the eve of a pretty double of OM on the transfer market. In search of reinforcements, the Olympian club has indeed completed in extremis the arrivals of Nayef Aguerd and Benjamin Pavard. What make Leonardo Balerdi's future uncertain at OM.
“If Aguerd really arrives. It's Beckenbaeur next to Balerdi and Co… ”had launched Nabil Djelit on Sunday evening on X. “Benjamin Pavard, even if he plays in the axis, he has a balerdi in each toe …”for his part launched Christophe Dugarry at the microphone of RMC, adding: “He's a solid boy to play OM. I'm not telling you that he will win the Champions League or make them qualify, but it's better than those who are present … “
