Europa League 2020-21

[Siregar]

The loss is embarrassing for me, because I'm French, and several people already made fun of me ...
It was one of these nights when you simply can't play correctly, all players seemed in a bad form, as individuals, and as a team. Lille is a very good side, so by mixing these two facts, the scoreline seemed logical.

The PK was very nice from the referee for Lille, but we would probably have lost anyway as we were just not there yesterday, whereas in Lille, Renato Sanches made the game of his life, Yazici just successfully does everything he wants in Europa League and this team is overall solid.

But ... Seriously, it was the best game to lose (the only problem is it was at home). Almost no pressure in this game, as Prague and Celtic were far, no big problem in our position in the group, we will have to win or draw in Lille to be OK and not add any useless pressure then, but we should still beat Prague and Celtic. Losing this game could allow our players to remember that we can also lose, and we have to be 100% in all games. Better than losing a Serie A game against Udinese for example, or against teams like Roma or Inter.

One concern : some of our key players look really tired nowadays (Théo and Kessie especially), and our performance has slowly dropped during the last few games.
One positive note : Bennacer ... Renato Sanches in the other side was just amazing yesterday, like I said, the game of his life, but Bennacer, when coming in, he's just another level compared to our other midfielders. I think he's near the WC level now.
One comment : Tonali, he wasn't good enough yesterday, I think he's a good Serie A player nowadays, but not yet good enough to play against good European sides. But anyway, he's young and will learn from these games ...

Good post. 

I disagree with Tonali's rating. He was actually very good in the first half. But like you said, bad form as a team, therefore Tonali needed more to do in defensive duties. He defensive work in the first half is already good but it was just not enough to play a different team of Lille in the second half while our players always lost the ball cheaply. That made Tonali looked poor. All he needed to do in the second half was just to defend and defend. In the second half, we needed two defensive midfielders there and we know Tonali is not a defensive midfielder.

If we lead 1 goal for example, I am sure people with rate Tonali in that game differently.