Lyon (AP) – Bayer Leverkusen’s former coach Peter Bosz will remain coach of Olympique Lyon at least until the end of February, despite the disappointing season so far.
The president of the former French soccer series champion, Jean-Michel Aulas, announced this in an interview with the sports newspaper “L’Equipe”. “Peter is a very, very good coach,” he said. The team with the German world champion Jérôme Boateng only played 1-1 at home against FC Metz on Wednesday and is currently 13th in Ligue 1.
Bosz had only taken over the team before the start of the season. From Aulas’ point of view, the 58-year-old Dutchman is still the best solution at the moment. The club boss also blamed the unrest about the departure of the sporting director Juninho, who officially retired at the end of the year, for the performance. “After all, there are no coaches on the market who have the quality of Peter Bosz,” said Aulas. With a change of coach you risk that everything will get worse. “So he stays,” emphasized Aulas. Bosz was confident on the club’s website. Leading the team out of the current situation is a challenge.
In the Europa League, Lyon is the winner of his group in the round of 16, in the French Cup the game at second division FC Paris was canceled after fan riots on Friday last week. The league home game against Olympique Marseille in November was also canceled after a bottle was thrown from the Lyon fan block.
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