Baptiste Santamaria went to a press conference Monday morning before leaving for Nice. The midfielder of Angers knows that the Nice are in great shape, but recalled that this season the Sco managed his performances against the teams of the moment.
Four questions to
Baptiste Santamaria, 23 years old, Angers Sco midfielder.
After Lille and Montpellier, you face Nice, a team in shape lately ...
Nice is a nice team for sure. After we like these teams in general, as we saw against Lille and Montpellier. I will say that, in the sense that every time we faced a team that was in good shape, we managed to make a result (two wins 1-0). We had a first half against Caen. There we want to make a full match. But we also expect a big adversity. So it will not be necessary to make a small match if we want to bring back a result.
Zero goal conceded in five games, it's also solid defensively ...
We were also told against Lille, Montpellier, Reims ... It did not stop us from scoring. It will simply have to concretize the actions, and I have no doubts about the fact that we will create it.
As an individual, you will challenge a dense and technical environment with Cyprien, Lees-Melou and Tameze, how do you approach it?
We are in Ligue 1, so every weekend we face good players. I do not focus on one particular opponent. I tell myself that I have to win my duels, that I am the best performer to be able to annoy them to the maximum and bring more to the team. It will just have to block them, be at the maximum behind the players, to squeeze them, to be able to recover a large number of balloons and especially to interfere in the recovery and block the intervals.
When the truce arrives, do you have a number of points to reach?
I do not know if we have a course. But we really want to get a maximum of points to take shelter. It is important. But then you must not catch fire. We saw the example of Troyes last year, which was good at the truce (14th and relegable 19th) ... We do not take the lead with that, but we want the maximum points to be well in this ranking and try to go higher simply.