The joy of Strasbourg, victorious (0-4) in Nantes.

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Loic VENANCE / AFP

  • RC Strasbourg largely beat (0-4) FC Nantes at La Beaujoire this Sunday.

  • Very disciplined and perfect in terms of involvement, the Alsatians, who come out of the red zone, hardly trembled.

  • Coach Thierry Laurey, who was threatened, has much to be relieved.

Two (big) birds with one stone.

The Strasbourg, by going to roll (0-4) the FCN at Beaujoire this Sunday, leave the red zone (17th in Ligue 1) and return to success, after three defeats and a draw.

In a match of fear for the two coaches, Racing spared Thierry Laurey from all cold sweats as the Alsatians dominated very pale Canaries.

“We came to win so it's not a surprise, but it's a good thing, believes the Alsatian coach.

We knew it would be complicated at first… ”A quarter of an hour then hardly, and even the Nantes people were never really able to destabilize a Racing team very well organized around Simakan and Djiku.

In the 16th, RC Strasbourg opened the scoring from the penalty spot by Liénard, the beginning of an ordeal for the Nantes residents and a Sunday health walk for the Alsatians.

“We were careful that Nantes did not come back in the match, Laurey analyzes.

We haven't necessarily mastered the whole game, but we have mastered the key moments well.

“With a little more accuracy in the last gesture, the Strasbourg could even have widened the gap even faster, in particular by Thomasson twice (63rd and 69th).

Thierry Laurey relieved

“We were mainly waiting for the third goal of the game, we knew it would be important.

"And he arrived in the 78th ... on a penalty transformed this time by Ajorque.

The seventh goal from a penalty outside Strasbourg since the start of the season.

Without doubt a record.

“That means we're attacking, contrary to what some people say, tackle Laurey gently.

If things work for us, it's because we are provoking things.

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This success without appeal and with the manner does bode a good series to come, and even why not a comeback?

"We won 3-0 in Brest and we remember what happened after ...", moderates, rightly, Ludovic Ajorque.

Thierry Laurey, who we felt more relieved than happy, refuses to "ignite".

“If we continue with today's state of mind and the one seen against Rennes, maybe we will turn our backs on the failure of the start of the season.

Afterwards, we had a lot of contrary events, no one believed me when I said it… […] We still need victories to get out of the bad situation we are in.

This success still requires confirmation and it is not because we win 4-0 in Nantes that the earth stops turning.

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In the meantime, this great victory allows Laurey to afford a nice respite on a personal level.

He knew he was in danger: “All Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 coaches know the rules of the game. It's the hard law of results.

If you don't want to live with that, you don't have to be a football coach.

There are leaders who panic and others who trust.

Me, I am lucky to have some who trust.

And they probably did well.

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