2023-05-01 20:45:22
A Sunday to try to digest, and back to work because there is an emergency. Shocked and disappointed by their rout on Saturday in the Coupe de France final against Toulouse (5-1), the players of FC Nantes met on Monday afternoon to talk to each other, work and raise their heads before a crucial late match. for maintenance, this Wednesday in Brest (9 p.m.).
On the afternoon menu: a meeting to try to turn the page on the defeat, a training session and video analysis, explained to the press Antoine Kombouaré, the coach of the Canaries. The humiliation of the final result and the four goals conceded in the first half hour left their mark on the supporters and in the group. It was therefore urgent to try to turn the page and focus on the championship.
“Today, that’s it, they understood, told the Nantes coach at a press conference. They know that it is together that we are going to win the matches. Even if they hit each other, it’s not a problem. If you ask me, I would prefer that sometimes it got a little warm. In our locker room, there is testosterone, it’s moving, I’m a little bloody. It’s like a family, we argue, it can hang on a bit. What’s important is that it comes out and then we get back to work. It’s a complicated moment, but I have to reassure everyone. »
Like many, Jean-Charles Castelletto left the Stade de France bruised: “I don’t care, I just want to win (against Brest), also reacted the defender of the Canaries. It hurt us, this final. We don’t want to relive that feeling of shame. Now we have our eyes open, we must not do anything. There are no tensions but we have to give a little more to this team. That people who talk less talk a little more. That people who run less run a little more. »
Saturday evening, certain statements had hinted at tensions: “If we had been a real group, we would have come back”, thus launched midfielder Marcus Coco. “I don’t know what happened. We caught fire, we must forget, ”also said Nicola Pallois. Alban Lafont, the goalkeeper, spoke of “a feeling of shame and disappointment. »
According to Antoine Kombouaré, three victories will be enough in the last six matches to avoid 17th place and relegation, which will be played out between Brest (17th), Nantes (16th), Strasbourg (15th) and Auxerre (14th): “We must not panic but it will be hard. We are not sick, we are in very good health. We have the future of our club in our feet. “It’s the pride that will speak, insisted Castelletto. We have six matches left for such a big club to stay in L1. Six matches in a career… We are nothing at all compared to the club. “Nantes remains on eight matches without victories in the league.
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