- FC Nantes did not even manage to beat (0-0) Metz, Saturday evening, at Beaujoire.
- A poor performance which leaves the Canaries in the soft stomach of Ligue 1.
- Coach Gourcuff instructed his players and spoke of "sufficiency and insufficiency" for a match, however "pivotal".
The famous winter black hole of FC Nantes. Whoever makes you realize that the end of the season will have a bland aftertaste and that future matches played in spring temperatures will be of only very limited interest. Saturday evening, the Canaries were unable to vacillate Metz. A sad 0-0 in front of barely 21,000 spectators, who must have really wondered why they did not stay by the fireplace. For the first time of the season, Christian Gourcuff, cold as the little wind that crossed the mixed zone of Beaujoire, properly "loaded" his men:
“It was 90 minutes of suffering for me, but also for the public. It is difficult to live. Fortunately we had a central defense found. We showed too many shortcomings in the game, but also a lot of sufficiency in the approach to the match. We must not take ourselves for what we are not… ”
Christian Gourcuff released the horses at a press conference, which his players were not able to do on the lawn at all. Who is the Nantes coach targeting? Not the defense, overall very solid thanks to the return of an excellent Pallois and a little helped by a weak adversity. No, in the viewfinder of Gourcuff, undoubtedly Bamba, capable of flashes like inappropriate gestures (a stroke of the scarf in full surface instead of a center and awkward in the 75th on a face-to-face with the Messin goalkeeper ), Blas, author of an insignificant entry into play, Coulibaly, transparent for his comeback, but to his discharge lacking in rhythm, and especially Captain Touré, whose technical waste is seriously starting to stain ... This is good, a few minutes after the coach's beating, Abdoulaye Touré counter-attacked, not following Christian Gourcuff's speech at all:
“In this situation, you have to stick together more. The situation is not easy for everyone. Finding the excuses and shooting a head or two is not the answer… ”
FC Nantes 2020 no longer has the streak of success that escorted it between August and December 2019. A diabolical efficiency that had allowed it to win nine times by a goal difference. “We created opportunities, but almost exclusively by Simon Moses, regrets Christian Gourcuff. You have to face it. It must serve as a trigger, we cannot continue in this area. I lived this match like an ordeal. We see too many technical limits. There is no mastery. "
A long end to the season ahead
Nantes (10th), still fourth two months ago, scuttles each weekend a little more its end of the season, already devoid of Cups (elimination in the Coupe de la Ligue and the Coupe de France). It could have been exciting, it will become exhausting for everyone at this rate. “It's already too long [this period of six games without a win in all competitions], blows Dennis Appiah. We don't win at home, and every week, it's complicated and we say to ourselves that we have to win the next match… ”Eternal restart.
“We knew what a pivotal match was this evening [Saturday evening], the most important of the period, observes Gourcuff. In the approach, we did not consider it like that. »The last word for Charles Traoré, who released the communication clichés in times of food shortage:« We are now going to look in the mirror and tell the truth there… […] There, we are wrong. And that is completely true.
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