Before the last match between Bourgoin-Jallieu and Reims, this Thursday evening, they are only three residents of the elite in the quarterfinals of the Coupe de France.
In the aftermath of Dunkirk’s reversing qualification against Lille, the knockout stages of the Coupe de France reserved new surprises on Wednesday. While Guingamp offered the Toulouse scalp to the Stadium, Saint-Brieuc, resident of National 2, signed a real feat by bringing the OGC Nice to drop.
While waiting for the Stade de Reims, on the move this Thursday evening in Bourgoin-Jallieu, a fall of Olympique Lyonnais in the 16th finals, they are therefore only three Ligue 1 clubs qualified for the quarter-finals: Angers, PSG and Brest. A situation denounced with vigor by Daniel Riolo.
“Clubs have nothing to wave. They, the history of the Coupe de France and what it can represent to offer a title, thing … We talk about it and we say that it is shame for Nice, he thundered at the RMC microphone. Nice this year, if you talk to them about the cut, they are afraid. They are afraid. In the European Cup they were ridiculous and anyway they say: ‘We don’t care, the important thing is to come back through the championship’. We take the sorrel because there is the account… ”
“They get shame”
And Daniel Riolo does not subscribe to the thesis according to which the clubs of the elite would have no illusion in the competition due to the presence of the Parisian ogre. “It is not linked to PSG. They hit shame. When it is PSG’s fault, he castigated. It is an excuse of blind supporters. When you are in unfair competition, it does not excuse that the guy bumps badly. If the guy works badly, he works badly. The problem is that if you give him fewer means to work well, he will necessarily work less well. It is a conjunction of the two but there they hit shame alone. »»
“Here we are in another debate, which is the appreciation of the value of a title, to win a cup and to give ourselves in a competition. We removed the League Cup but it has been how many years that the French Cup, we are witnessing this kind of grotesque evenings ”he denounced.
We did not wait for PSG and Qatar, we saw them … because the guys are not motivated. Even Jérôme Rothen, how many times has he explained to us that when you play a team less well ranked during the 32nd finals, it gets you drunk in a rotten stadium and with a rotten lawn. »»
