Charles Traoré just after his equalizer on the wire against Angers.

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  • FC Nantes (15th) managed to equalize (1-1) against Angers, at La Beaujoire, this Sunday afternoon.

  • A point in trompe l'oeil for the Canaries so much they missed everything this Sunday against neighbor.

  • Before going to Lyon on Wednesday for the last match of the year, this FCN team has never had so much self-doubt.

Some are unrecognizable (Blas, Pallois), others quite simply more at the level (Louza, Touré, Emond).

The season of FC Nantes (15th currently) looks like a slow agony, the outcome of which could very well resemble the throes of relegation to Ligue 2 in May.

This Sunday, we still wonder how the Canaries were able to snatch a point (1-1) against the SCO.

The neighbor from Angers also has the right to ask himself the question as he fell in Beaujoire on a team without soul and without life.

Nantes coach Patrick Collot: “When you equalize in the last seconds with a lot of courage and will, you can talk about a small miracle.

And with a great stroke of luck, given the goal scored by Traore, who countered with his chest an attempted lob from El Melali at the end of added time.

The Canaries had nevertheless lacked success a few seconds before when Ndilu had found the post of a beaten Bernardoni.

But before this adrenaline rush in added time, the FCN was the flat encephalogram.

Only one shot on target in this match (a free kick from Girotto in the 22nd).

A disastrous figure for a formation on its lawn and supposed to revolt to equalize… “If we are as poor as today, the days, the weeks to come will be difficult, admits nevertheless a Patrick Collot without emotion at the desk.

We are aware of it.

We had taken a step forward in Reims [3-1 defeat] in the content, there, we come out disappointed.

I also remember the will and the courage of the boys who believed in it to the end.

“But these virtues will not be enough for the Canaries to stay in Ligue 1.

This FCN drags its misery

The tactical reorganization in 4-3-3 of Collot since the dismissal of Gourcuff perhaps gives a little more guarantees on the defensive plan to the FCN, but seems to completely distort its offensive game.

Lack of solutions for the ball carrier and mobility around it, the FCN is hard to see.

Like a Simon, full of envy but often too predictable in his initiatives.

“This is the whole problem of a team that doubts, that lacks confidence.

It's up to each player to question himself.

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Captain Nicolas Pallois, who regretted a stroller from Romain Thomas on the opening of the Angevin score (42nd), concedes: “We are in the hard.

If we are there, it is no accident.

We have to get into the head that we play the maintenance.

As if this obvious observation was not yet in the minds of all its partners.

Can the scabrous environment (demonstrations by supporters, suspicion of tax fraud by President Kita, etc.) around the club weigh on this training, which seems to need a psychologist more than a coach at the moment?

“It's not ideal,” Collot concedes.

Now, if we are so weak because the environment is negative, I have to worry about the matches to come.

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