Rudi garcia
(Lyon coach, 5-0 winner at Saint-Etienne on Sunday): “We were very good in the team's high position and ambition.
We prevented Saint-Etienne from developing the game. We put it in the right way.
We scored a lot on stopped phases, which we had worked well by changing positions.
It may be our most complete game, certainly.
We could have scored more in the game but 5-0 away in a derby, it's not every day, it's historic because we are ahead on the number of victories against Saint-Etienne (45 against 44 , 33 draws).
In a derby, there is no ranking or aligned team that counts.
We have been very good tactically.
We made the Stéphanois run a lot, which we physically asphyxiated.
The team with the most hearts wins.
Our replacements were late because those on the field deserved to stay, but I was not happy with the entrants in the last game.
I've been playing with OL for three derbies and winning three.
I do not forget that we are only third, but we do not let PSG and Lille (1st and 2nd with 45 points each, Editor's note) go, while Monaco (4th) is coming back well ”.
»READ ALSO -
Tops / Flops St Etienne-Lyon: Marcelo strong head, the Greens not at the party
Claude Puel
(Saint-Etienne coach, beaten 5-0 by Lyon): “It's difficult to accept, of course.
We are angry with ourselves for having made it easier for this team, for having conceded so many stopped phases.
We hoped, despite everything that happened to us, a better match with more quality and suspense, more collective aggressiveness and in particular on the stopped phases.
Especially on a derby day, we cannot accept it.
Of course, we did not have a normal preparation, we recovered players just for the match that was coming back from Covid, we tried to compose, to share the playing times. Even with these kinds of situations, we believed in it. but we quickly became disillusioned because we were too approximate defensively and offensively.
We did not know how to exist, quite simply against a technically skilled opponent.
We were too poor in the defensive aspect and from there we cannot exist.
Weaned from balls in the first period, we suffered ”.
Timothée Kolodziejczak
(defender of Saint-Etienne, crushed 5-0 by Lyon, at the microphone of Téléfoot): “Dirty evening.
We weren't good at all.
We were taken for a ride from the first to the last minute.
We ran a lot in a vacuum, we were not compact.
We weren't biting enough on the set pieces.
We did not see the light of day.
There were several classes of difference between Lyon and us.
It's true that we lacked experienced players, but we're not going to hide behind that.
There is a group that was formed at the start of the season, and we have to deal with it.
Now it's a big slap, we're downcast.
We will have to start again, because there is a maintenance to be sought. "
Read also
League 1 standings
