Author of a very average Euro 2024 with the French team, Ousmane Dembélé is violently criticized by Jorge Sampaoli.
It is a little sentence that could make noise. At the end of Euro 2024, the magazine So football Asked several coaches to decipher the competition, and among them, Jorge Sampaoli had very hard words against Ousmane Dembélé. For the Argentinian technician, the Blues and PSG winger is a soloist who has no use in the offensive animation of his team.
“When Dembélé overflows, the other players are like spectators who look at how the action will end. They know that he plays like an autistic: he begins the action and ends it aloneasserts the former OM coach. He does not have the capacity to make a teammate shine, he just knows how to be shined himself. (Kylian) Mbappé, it’s a bit the same. »»
Jorge Sampaoli destroys Ousmane Dembélé
Beyond the use of the term
“Autistic”Clearly inappropriate, Jorge Sampaoli highlights a defect which is often criticized for tricolor international: its waste in the last gesture. Last season, the former Parisian compiled 6 goals and 12 assists in 42 matches with Paris Saint-Germain. Too much low yield for a player of its value.
But for Eric Rabesandratana, the problem of Ousmane Dembélé is especially psychological. “He has a big problem, it’s the management of emotionsexplains the former PSG defender.
It is not a question of talent or to miss too much. In the finishing of his actions, very often, (…) He is unable to dose everything he is going to do behind the effort he has just made physically. »»
The real problem of Ousmane Dembélé identified
“This is the best dribbler. In the stats, it is the one that is best struck in the worldnote the ex-defenseman of PSG in The evening team. We must have said 100 times: ‘You have to put it there, you have to work’. But the only emotional response he has is to put strength. And suddenly, he completely loses what he did and we say to himself that he breaks our feet because he misses everything. »»
“But I think there is just that to settle for him. Because technically, he is able to put free kicks, rolled up, tense strikes, to do anythingconcludes the former red and blue captain. But today, he has this big emotional management problem which makes everything go into a spin each time that he arrives in a dangerous situation. »»
