2023-04-30 07:00:29
Etzella is playing a small final against Hostert this Sunday. And his trainer is worried about his lack of experience.
You can be 29, pull off a potential minor miracle worthy of the state of disrepair Etzella found himself in at one point in the season, and be fully aware of the limitations inherent in his age. When approaching a real final for the survival of his team at this level, Bruno Alves would have had a good game to admit that the dynamic was rather on the Ettelbruckois side, when receiving Hostert. He preferred to make it a self-critical exercise even before kick-off.
It is that inevitably, beyond the vital burst that his team has been showing for a few weeks, Alves launches this Sunday into a duel with a coach who was already training at the time of his birth: Henri Bossi, 65 years old and an unequaled experience in the cut-off matches since no one has won more play-off matches than him since their institution. “Even if I must have certain qualities, relativizes the youngest of the coaches of BGL Ligue, I do not have his experience. I expect him to know much better than me how to react during the game. It happened to us for example, in particular against Progress, to make too hasty changes. We can see that we are still lacking reflexes and that can cost us dearly at the end of the match.
Hostert: first and second problems
His solution for this six-point encounter: “be doubly focused”. In short, to be as much in your match as your players. And teleporting to Niederanven shows how calm indeed reigns a little more. Bossy? Quiet strength despite the more than worrying situation. And even an annoying tendency to defuse any pressure by feigning the most absolute detachment: “Our first problem? You must already score a goal (Editor’s note: the USH has only scored one in the last six days of DN). Our second problem? We must not cash in (Editor’s note: the last clean sheet dates from eight matches ago, against Käerjeng, the second worst attack in the country). At the moment, these are two very complicated things for us. But we are not going to invent anything new. I stay calm: if we fall, it’s not the end of the world either. We will rebuild a team to go back to DN next season by taking on five or six new players. Last summer, the staff did not make the right decisions in terms of recruitment.
Or how to evacuate the pressure by saying that, in any case, there is no more… If it works, Bruno Alves will have learned something from his elder. But he would prefer not to have to pay too much for this kind of learning. And also anticipates the possibility that the logic of the moment may not be respected without his choices having anything to do with possible disillusionment: “I have nevertheless lived long enough to know that even if everything speaks for us now, we can also have a day without. But we still have to get six points to be able to hope to play in the play-offs. And it would be a funny one, that, from experience…
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