While Olympique Lyonnais has struggled to find opponents to schedule friendly matches, coach Rudi Garcia has criticized the LFP’s decision to end the season in Ligue 1.
Rudi Garcia on the same wavelength as its president.
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Opposites at Paris Saint-Germain on July 31 in the League Cup final, then Juventus Turin on August 7 or 8 in the knockout stages of the Champions League (1-0 win first leg), Olympique Lyonnais was the first Ligue 1 club to start preparation on June 8.
This Wednesday (7:30 p.m.), the Gones will also be the first to play a friendly match against Swiss fans from Port-Valais and Evian. On the sidelines of this meeting, the Rhone coach, Rudi Garcia, deplored the significant difficulties that OL must face to schedule preparation matches.
Few opponents available
We had a lot of trouble mounting our preparation and finding friendlies, given the few opponents available. Claude Fichaux and Clment Michon, who took care of it, could only bring us back opponents who had stopped their championship. Not only are they few, but in addition none belong to a major championship, since Germany, England, Spain and Italy have taken over, regretted the technician at a press conference. Even the French clubs, with the exception of Nice (which OL will face on Saturday at Groupama Stadium, note), told us: ‘No sorry, but we are preparing for August 22 and the resumption of the championship, you are too advanced’.
The season is over, not common sense for Garcia
Unsurprisingly, the former coach of Olympique de Marseille wants the LFP that he considers the main responsible for this disorder. I find that if there is something to praise as so much common sense, it is not the end of Ligue 1 19-20 because we realize that President Aulas was one of the few to have was right to say that we should have waited and see what is going on. The proof is what they did in England, Italy, Spain and Germany. Everyone took over except us, still pest Garcia, before continuing his tirade.
When you have to make decisions, you have to weigh the pros and cons. We couldn’t do it in France, insisted the native of Nemours. Admit that it is still something special, the championship stopped, but we finish the cups and we finish the Champions League. While Juve will come out of a 13-game marathon in 7 and a half weeks, with a final day of Serie A scheduled for August 2, OL, certainly cooler, will try to take advantage of this French exception on the European scene .
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