"It is part of the invalidity of French football." : Daniel Riolo ruthlessly with Nice after elimination from Europa League Conference

For French football, the years follow each other and it looks the same. OGC Nice, the last representative of France in the European Cup, was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Europa League Conference. Modest FC Basel’s (currently 6^to Swiss championship, editor’s note), “Aiglons” cracked in overtime for the return match on Thursday 20 April (2-1). A result synonymous with elimination, given that the Riviera club did not fare any better than a draw (2-2) in the first match.

After this incredible disappointment, Daniel Riolo criticized Nice’s performance on the team’s microphone.After Foot Open RMC : “I felt a very hot Nice. The goal was a trap made by Laborde, the only player on this team with so many characters. At the beginning of the match, Nice pretended to press, but his feet were too hot. Talking about the starting line-up with five players behind… Give me the number of ball players on this team. Putting bags from defender to attacker is not football. Did you see the control in Nice in this match? But they did nothing.“The columnist believes the people of Nice should dominate on paper an inferior opponent:”You don’t have to master Basel, you have to beat Basel. Basel is a set of cardboard, smash them! They have zero chance.“

“Nice failed mentally, physically, tactically and technically“, continues Daniel Riolo, distraught: “I think he will be put among the worst results of a French team in the European Cup. It’s sad, deplorable. I couldn’t even find enough adjectives to describe what I saw tonight against such a weak opponent. This is part of the nothingness of French football this year, which we’ve seen good in the league for four months, but we have to admit, we were in vain as we were going back to European level in the UEFA index. it will hurt us“Actually, because of this result,^to France’s place in the UEFA rankings is under threat more than ever. While AZ Alkmaar is still in the Europa League Conference, the Netherlands can still hope to overtake the French if the Dutch come to win the competition by winning all the matches.

Daniel Riolo then attacked Didier Digard, who was taken to the Nice bench last January after Lucien Favre was sacked:It was a psychological shock when he arrived and I didn’t want to comment too much on him because I wanted to wait to make sure these weren’t the results achieved because there’s a kind of crossover between the players and the coach. Today I would say Digard needs to learn his business. Digard is not a good coach, not someone who needs to continue the adventure with Nice.“Géraldine Maillet’s friend believes the 36-year-old coach no longer has a place at the helm of “Aiglons”: “I don’t think Ineos will continue with it. He put eleven men on the field that produced a disastrous result, not a team he built himself. Everyone thought he was cute because he was wearing a hoodie and dressed young. (…) Nice should continue next season and I think they will.Angered, Daniel Riolo also scolded the flagship players of the Nice workforce: “There’s also a lot of show off. Behind the simplistic appearance, there’s a lot of flair among many of these actors, Khéphren Thuram and Todibo, as we glide as usual. “They should be on the French team, they’re great…” The guys already have a rock, they don’t touch the ground anymore.“France has won only two European Cups in its history; OM won the Champions League in 1993 and PSG won the Coupe des Coupes in 1996.

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