Slapped by PSG this evening 5-1 at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium, LOSC scuttled themselves by offering two goals through errors from Grbic, then a third following a poor clearance from Botman.
The evening had everything to be beautiful for LOSC. The return of the public to Pierre-Mauroy, a poster against PSG and a hope of saying that the current leader of Ligue 1 was catchable. Then everything shattered from the 10th minute of play, the fault of a first error by Ivo Grbic, who will set the tone for his defense for the rest of the game. Lille took 5 goals tonight (final score 5-1), including three directly linked to individual fouls.
Gourvennec immediately defended his doorman at a press conference. “I don’t explain them (the errors). He did very good things, a match against a top opponent who only lost one match in L1 in Rennes. We are going to discuss cold, at the beginning of the week with a rest. We have to look at what happened.”, temporized the coach of the Mastiffs.
Grbic’s partners do not blame him for anything
Responsible for the second Parisian goal, by not capturing this corner from Messi, the Croatian let Kimpembe score, then was imitated at the end of the first period by his defender, Sven Botman, guilty as for him of a bad clearance in the Messi’s feet. The Argentinian then only had to beat Grbic. With three goals already “offered” to PSG in the first half, there was not much to hope for behind.
“Sure, it’s complicated but it can happen to anyone. We remain a team. It happens to make mistakes. You just have to get up and keep going.”, assured Jonathan David to the press, which was confirmed by Amadou Onana. “I think we win and we lose together. Despite the two goals, we take three others where he did everything he could so we do not blame him for anything. Grbic has the support of his teammates, that’s already it.
