2023-05-09 12:37:32
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Relegated, FC Nantes multiplies the reflexes of a club in crisis four days before the end of the season. Do the Canaries still have a chance to hold on?
If FC Nantes were an airplane, its president Waldemar Kita would press all the buttons in the cockpit hoping it would work. It is clear that the choices of the Canaries have led to results: nine straight maintenance in Ligue 1, a Coupe de France and an honest course in the Europa League. Until collapsing at the end of the season: eleven consecutive matches without a win in the league (current series) and a humiliation in the cup final by Toulouse (1-5).
Suddenly, there is almost nothing left in Nantes. Antoine Kombouaré paid the price. The Kanak coach was dismissed on Tuesday, two days after a home defeat against a direct competitor in the maintenance, Strasbourg (0-2). The Nantes management is playing its all out. To fire the coach is to hope for an electric shock, a burst of pride to save a historic club. It is a major reflex of a club in crisis, the second after that of a financial nature. According The Team et West Francethe players were promised a bonus of 50,000 euros each in the event of maintenance, before the match against Strasbourg.
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Kombouaré’s strong words did not change anything
From now on, Nantes, which is two points behind Auxerre and three behind Strasbourg and Brest, no longer has its destiny in its hands. He still has one, and it was put in the hands of Pierre Aristouy, 43, so far in charge of the U19s at the club. He will be assisted by the ex-Venezuelan international and former Nantes defender, Oswaldo Vizcarrondo (38), who coached the women’s team in D2. The priority, the urgency even, is with the boys, because it is the showcase and the source of income for the club. But for now, it’s mostly a construction site.
«We suck, but 16th place is two points away, she’s reaching out to us, diagnosed Kombouaré on Sunday. There is hope. We need a big kick in the ass.The now ex-coach described his group as “shit team“, after a setback in Auxerre on April 16 (2-1). At the end, Kombouaré groped. He tried a new 3-5-2 system as a last stand against Strasbourg. In vain. In front, Ludovic Blas is no longer inspired, Moses Simon and Florent Mollet are running out of pace, and the defensive solidity is missing on the banks of the Loire.
An affordable calendar
Above all, executives have failed, from the ball of goalkeeper and captain Alban Lafont in Brest a week ago (0-2) to the penalty conceded by Jean-Charles Castelletto against Strasbourg. “We’re in an ultra-negative spiral, we can’t get our heads above water“, exasperated Lafont Sunday. Perhaps the worst is that Lafont observes a problem “in attitude». «The hardest thing is to regain confidence, desire“, he emphasized.
Nantes will be faced with its responsibilities against Toulouse and Montpellier, two teams that no longer play anything, before going to Lille, current 5th which plays Europe, and to receive Angers, red lantern. “It’s now or never to get you out of the fog“wrote the Nantes supporters on a banner on Sunday. The club with eight league titles still has cartridges. But he hasn’t hit the bullseye for a long time.
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