For the president of the OL Jean-Michel Aulas, the League of Champions Meeting tonight against Zenit St Petersburg is “most important” as the others. His club, which took only one point from two matches, needs a result to hope to get into the second round.
Jean-Michel Aulas, this match against Zenit is there a double or quits for the qualification for the 8th finals?
It depends on the others, but it would be better to get a result if only psychologically and order to stay in the race for qualification. So it’s perhaps not double or nothing but it is a more important game than the previous. We should have won the first match in Ghent. We missed a penalty at the wrong time when this game was won on the field. The second match against Valencia, we won on points. I agree that Zenit have dominated but the penalties or provided that we win.
Is there more excitement from playing outside and against Zenit while the OL is already under pressure?
We are always under pressure when one is president or coach. For the players, it’s wonderful to face Zenit with top players including four very on top of everything you can imagine to have in the short term OL. It can not getting a good result. Given ultra-favorite by the media, the Zenit that pressure. In Lyon, there is no particular pressure if only to have a little luck because when we look at the statistics, we lack some precision on the number of shots. We always have possession and often the largest number of occasions.
Friday, Alexandre Lacazette complained of the supposed lack of investment partners and Sunday morning, a pitted altercation Corentin Tolisso to Lindsay Rose (not the group). What do you think?
This is a good sign. When everyone is yes-and that things seem to swim in a blissful situation, where nothing happens. Here, there are the reaction. Alexander has seen a number of people who were younger than him. He had to go explain. The altercation? If you had seen the number of altercations that I have seen since I am president, you would not notice. This has not caused discussion Sunday night during dinner. Nothing serious. Whether one is not satisfied, me, being sixth in the championship, it is not a drama but we will seek to recover. Having only one point in the Champions League is more annoying because there are only four games and it will take nine points over the past four days.
If defeated Tuesday considérez- that it will be completed for qualification?
It will be very difficult if we lose. At a minimum, a zero allows us to keep hoping. There are plenty of teams that fail to qualify. It would be a big disappointment given the number of absentees in our team but it would not be a justification. I am not party to lose or players. Everyone will deliver his match against a very big team. And sometimes it is better to play away against such an opponent to not receive criticism. The team morale and will show that when we do not trust it, it motivates.
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