The defender of Olympique de Marseille saw a very delicate start to the season.
Promoted captain of theOlympique de Marseille Last season, Leonardo Balerdi can boast of being the most seniority player in his club. This experience gives him a status as a framework player, but his start to the season has scratched this image.
In great difficulty on the first three official games of the season, Balerdi symbolizes despite himself the perpetual defensive ailments of OM. The difficulties of the Argentinian in depth management do not date from yesterday.
Despite his good quality of recovery, Balerdi is struggling to defend behind the defensive transitions, as his match in Lyon still illustrated, where he was the author of a blunder leading to the expulsion of his young teammate CJ Egan-Riley, before scoring a goal against his camp.
“I don't answer”
Despite these recurrent sporting difficulties, Leonardo Balerdi is not used to fleeing his responsibilities. The Argentinian international regularly assumes his role as captain by presenting himself publicly before the media, including after a bad result.
Balerdi was present in the mixed zone on Sunday, but his patience has limits. Questioned by a journalist about his “friability”, the defender of OM took the fly.
“What friability? What ? »»he launched. “Next question, I don't answer”, Tonnée Balerdi.
