2023-05-07 00:22:00
Top-flight football is about details. This is a cliché that we often hear when analyzing football news. And yet, it is after the kind of match like the victory of Lens against Marseille, Saturday evening, at Bollaert (2-1), that this little sentence takes on its full meaning.
What if Clément Turpin had granted the goal scored by Alexis Sanchez in the 8th minute? In any case, in the eyes of the Olympians, he was there, the fact of the match. And Igor Tudor may have said that he did not want “not talk about the referee” at the microphone of Canal + after the meeting, he could not restrain himself over his interview with the encrypted channel.
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“It’s the little details that changed the game. For me Sanchez’s goal is valid (the VAR warned Mr. Turpin of a foul on Kevin Danso, editor’s note) and there is a second card for Medina (after a big foul on Chancel Mbemba)“, judged the Croatian. “I told the referee he had the courage – I mean the courage – to disallow the goal but not to give Medina a second card. He had the balls to do it in a way but not in the other”he completed later in a press conference.
Especially since in his eyes, the Blood and Gold were not particularly superior to his men: “No, I don’t think they were above us. Fofana’s shot (the opener) came in when we were at the same level. (…) Injuries (Sanchez and Gigot) also posed a big problem.
A little bump in the back of the head
Among players, the story is a little different. “We are not going to take away the merit from Lensadmitted Jonathan Clauss to Canal +. We had our phases, they may have been sharper in their phases, it’s a shame”. Still, this opening of the score refused in a second time remains across the throat. According to him, she had an influence on the dynamics of the match. “This goal disallowed… I have not seen the images again…”, thought aloud the Marseille piston. But maybe he hits us a little behind the head, even if we keep pushing.”
More talkative in his analysis of the match than his coach – the Croatian contented himself with a “we congratulate them for this match and that’s it” – Jonathan Clauss wanted to stay positive. “We lacked a little binder between behind and in fronthe judged. But we saw a good evolution with Dim (Payet) who came back, who got the balls back… Despite all that, it sucks tonight. The end of the match that we propose is interesting”.
Quite the opposite of Pau Lopez. The Marseille goalkeeper felt that he and his teammates had not had “a very good level”. There may be a balance to be found between Clauss’ analysis and the bitter observation of his goalkeeper to get the good mandatory results in the four remaining matches. Next deadline: the reception of Angers on May 14. It’s up to the Phocaeans to get up and forget this defeat in Lens.
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