2023-08-26 00:21:10
A draw but a season finally launched for the people of Nantes. Although they failed to resist the return of the Monegasques (3-3) at the end of the game, Pierre Aristouy’s players won their first point of the season in a spectacular match, where AS Monaco players shot 27 times on goal!
Facing the leader of the championship, the Nantes had made a perfect start to the match, obtaining a penalty in the fourth minute of play calmly transformed by Mostafa Mohamed. In the aftermath and when we did not expect him on the ground on Friday, because engaged in a showdown with the club, Jean-Charles Castelletto drove the nail home from a corner.
If Takumi Minamino had time reduced the score for Monaco, the Nantes people joined the locker room in the lead at half-time and started the second period at the same pace as the first. Served by Quentin Merlin, Mostafa Mohamed scored twice by pushing the ball to the far post with a flat right foot.
“We will do everything to make it better and better”
But already authors of an offensive festival against Clermont (4-2) then Strasbourg (3-0), the Monegasques did not weaken and multiplied the offensives, when the Nantes residents were struggling more physically. Wissam Ben Yedder (59th) then Myron Boadu (86th), who had just returned to the field, allowed Adi Hütter’s men to pick up the score. “We started the match which was not in favor, we were able to come back each time, appreciated the Monegasque Krépin Diatta at the microphone of Prime Video. Today we made some mistakes but what is important is the reaction of the team. »
“It’s very frustrating because I think we deserved better, regretted Nantes Marcus Coco. Afterwards, we repeated a few mistakes from previous games, but it’s still encouraging. For the next matches, we will have to be more concentrated in the weak times to be able to hold the results. I think we are going to do everything to make it better and better”.
Still, this result should reassure the coach of the Canaries at least for a time. “A coach knows he is judged every weekend according to the results of his team,” Pierre Aristouy confided to us ten days ago. After two defeats, one at home against Toulouse (2-1) then another in Lille (2-0), the latter was already in a precarious position before this match. “It’s a bit premature to pillory me,” lamented the coach at a press conference, stressing that “a game project takes time”. For nearly 85 minutes this Friday, he will have managed to put it in place.
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