AS Saint-Etienne : OM-ASSE report: Xavier Thuilot denounces a lack of anticipation of the LFP | ASSE News

LIGUE 1 – The director general of AS Saint-Etienne, Xavier Thuilot denounced Tuesday “a general lack of anticipation” after the postponement, following four cases declared positive for Covid-19 in the Marseille workforce, from opening match of Ligue 1 football, Marseille-Saint-Etienne, scheduled for Friday.

Xavier Thuilot, the general manager of AS Saint-Etienne, is very upset after the postponement of the match between OM and ASSE on Friday. “I am stunned by the general lack of anticipation. There is a real organizational problem“, declared the Saint-Etienne leader in a daily interview La Tribune-Le Progrès, posted on its website. “We know that we will have difficulty playing the 380 games of the season. There’s even a 99% chance that we can’t. In March, we could say that it happened to us but today, it is not normal that we cannot predict“, he railed.

“We start a championship without the manual. It’s incredible. How will the League and the FFF do to ensure sports fairness?“, he asked recalling that”last year there were winners and losers“.”We are referring to regulations that are inappropriate, almost ancestral“, he underlined.

“Practice our activity”

“We have long periods of inactivity and then suddenly we’re going to play three times in seven days“, insists Thuilot again. The Greens played in the final of the Coupe de France on July 24 against Paris-SG and will play their next official match, on August 30 against Lorient at home, more than a month later before a fifteen-day international truce following which there will be three meetings in one week for the Stéphanois against Strasbourg, Marseille and Nantes.

“We cannot be asked to make ten or fifteen times more efforts than those asked of the rest of the population. We are tested twice a week and as soon as there is one who coughs, we stop. We want to undergo three more constraints but this is beyond measure“, he added. “The goal is not to say that we do not care about the virus but to define the conditions that allow us to practice our activity.“, concluded the Director General of ASSE.