Jean-Eudes Aholou and Mohamed Simakan disappointed: Racing had chances but did not score this Sunday against Lille.
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Nothing is going well in Strasbourg.
The Alsatians lost 3-0 against Lille on Sunday at La Meinau.
Their fifth setback in six days.
Is the crisis declared?
Nobody said it, but it looks like it.
"This result is dramatic," admitted captain Stefan Mitrovic, who was worried.
And Thierry Laurey in all of this?
The Strasbourg coach did not break his group.
"I said it before the match and it was verified: at the moment, there is a team for whom things are going well and the other less", he explained.
At the Meinau stadium,
A crisis, what crisis?
The famous word was on everyone's lips this Sunday, at La Meinau after the defeat of Racing against Lille (0-3).
But it has not been pronounced.
Just Thierry Laurey he agreed that "the situation was starting to be delicate".
The Strasbourg coach has a sense of proportion.
With three small points taken in six days and an antepenultimate place in the Ligue 1 standings, others would be more alarmed.
This was for example the case of his captain Stefan Mitrovic, who had preceded him at a press conference.
"This result is dramatic"
Between two "pfff" of spite, the Serbian admitted that the concern gained the group.
“It's normal, we did not expect to be 18th after six days, even after complicated preparation (by the coronavirus).
This result is dramatic, "he confessed, calling on his teammates" not to let go "and to" work to be better physically ".
The defender could also have cited other areas of progress.
Like efficiency.
Yesterday, Racing could still have played all night that it would not have scored.
The statistics prove it: the Alsatians obtained more chances (11 against 8) and shot more (14 to 12) than their opponents.
But it was the Lille who took the three points of victory, much more sure of their strength.
"I said it before the match and it was verified: at the moment, there is a team for which things are going well and the other less", continues Thierry Laurey, without wanting to overwhelm his players.
"We are progressing, we have raised our level compared to the last games […] I am not disappointed with the meeting we had", he added, recalling the scenario of the game.
Either a good first quarter of an hour from Strasbourg, a few chances then… a northerner goal against the course of the game. On a loss of ball from Liénard at 40 meters, Celik then advanced (unopposed!) Before sending a missile into Kamara's left skylight.
It was almost over for the good period of the Blues who could still have equalized by Ajorque (30th) or Chahiri (31st).
But the Losc then folded the case after the break, thanks to Renato Sanches (53rd) and Yilmaz (68th), and sent Racing to its doubts.
🎙️ Thierry #Laurey: "We were pretty good in the first period and afterwards, the game passing, it became more difficult. The second goal hurt us. But we still tried to get chances until the end. "# RCSALOSC (0-3) pic.twitter.com/sxw2rNFSMf
- RC Strasbourg Alsace (@RCSA) October 4, 2020
“Right now, we're paying dearly for all our half-errors, that's the story of our season so far,” summarizes Mitrovic, captain of a defensively drifting team: 13 goals conceded in six games.
A group that does not breathe serenity in terms of cohesion either.
What to say if not of the spat between Dimitri Liénard and Thierry Laurey in full match?
Or of these procrastination of the coach at the time of the entry of Saadi (56th)?
He finally delayed the change to also call Thomasson, obviously not notified, or not ready.
RC Strasbourg now has two weeks to recover, before hosting Lyon on Sunday, October 18.
Any idea to win again?
“We're going on vacation to Ibiza and we'll see what happens,” Thierry Laurey squeaks.
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