Claude Puel has experienced many difficult moments in the Lyon bench, including during his final season in 2010-2011. – THOMAS BREGARDIS / AFP
    • 04/04/2016 at 19:33
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Claude Puel has found one of the only ways that can allow him to see his popularity plummet even further from Lyon fans. In the new issue of So Foot , the current coach of OGC Nice has held to defend his record as head of the OL, from 2008 to 2011. After seven consecutive league titles the Lyon club then spent three seasons without a title despite recruitment capabilities then ever seen in Ligue 1.

“at the end of the 2010-2011 season [before being dismissed], j ‘ I lived like a pride of not having let go, to have maintained the competitively group for staying pro to the end by getting the third qualifying spot for the Champions League, “said Claude Puel.

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“Extraordinary victories against Quevilly”

the latter is then split by a comparison with the results of his successor Remi Garde, without naming him. “My path to Lyon is third, second and third, with big European matches against Barca or Real. This is not an elimination in the Champions League against a Cypriot team [Apoel Nicosia in 2012] or extraordinary victories in Cup final against Quevilly France “balance he ironically in So Foot .

It lost justice in his penalty claim for unfair dismissal last year, Claude Puel had obviously need to express some of his bitterness against his former club: “I wanted to protect everyone in Lyon. I took, I took and I are not protected me, that’s for sure … “

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