If he could, Bosz would have “changed eight players” at half-time for Lorient-OL

Peter Bosz (Lyon coach, beaten 3-1 in Lorient in a late match of the 2nd day): “We played against a good team from Lorient. But I prefer to watch my team and we defended very badly, played very badly with the ball. It has nothing to do with the OL we have seen this season. We lost the game in the first half. In the second half, we tried. We knew we couldn’t go on like this. From time to time, we were dangerous, unfortunately we didn’t score (…). With the ball, we were very bad, and without the ball even worse. I can’t name one player responsible, it was almost all of them. At half-time, we would have liked to change eight players, but the referee would not have agreed (…). I released Thiago Mendes because he already had a yellow card. He is a very good defender. He is very good in the air, he is a very good footballer. But he can’t lose a ball like on 2nd base (…). I’m not worried, I know my players, I know we are capable of doing much better. But I’m very disappointed with what I saw, especially in the first half.”