Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang silenced the critics after his Europa League hat-trick in OM's 4-3 win over Ajax. The striker did not exult in his first 2 goals. His coach with the Gabon national team, Patrice Neveu, reveals that the player was touched by the criticism. "It's not a trivial matter to score two penalties in the same match. Even more so in his situation. He takes the whistles very hard, he has a lot of inner pain. But he doesn't shy away from it, he keeps his wits about him to beat the opposing keeper. The same goes for his masterpiece. It takes a certain talent and exceptional self-confidence to have the mad inspiration to attempt this gesture," he says.
The French coach also gave his analysis of the player's ineffectiveness in Ligue 1, where he has scored just one goal in 12 games. "In the European Cup, he doesn't do anything fundamentally different. He just takes advantage of opponents who are less tight-lipped than in Ligue 1. Otherwise, the problem remains the same: he's served too little and rarely gets the chance to score."
Le superbe retourné acrobatique d'Aubameyang face à l'Ajax 🤩💙pic.twitter.com/fNmbuneHkf
— BeFootball (@_BeFootball) December 2, 2023
