Youssouf Fofana in the duel with Lionel Carole: the Monegasques were harmless in Alsace.

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  • AS Monaco fell for the first time in 2021, this Wednesday in Strasbourg (1-0).

    Logical they suffered so much.

  • The Monegasques remained in 13 games without defeat in all competitions.

  • “I told the players that it was an accident,” ASM coach Nico Kovac quickly cleared up after the meeting.

At the Meinau stadium,

Two and a half months since it hadn't happened.

An eternity.

Since December 16 and the rouste received by Lens (0-3), the Monegasques had not lost.

Thirteen games without defeat, eleven wins and two draws, until… this Wednesday at La Meinau.

The ASM hype ended in Strasbourg.

Almost trampled by ultra-domineering Alsatians who could have won not 1-0 but 2 or 3-0.

The only goal came at the very end of the game (90th + 1).

On an action that sums up what Nico Kovac's players have been all evening: too passive.

How else could Frédéric Guilbert have advanced more than 30 meters before triggering a victorious cross strike at the entrance to the surface?

The right side simply walked around facing opponents who were all retreating ...

“I told the players that it was an accident,” Nico Kovac quickly cleared up after the meeting.

Elegant gray turtleneck, calm smile, the Croatian coach of Monaco was not an angry type who had just seen his team suffer for 1h30 without ever finding the beginning of a solution.

He preferred to play it fair.

"Strasbourg played well and deserved to win".

"We lacked creativity"

In the midst of these courtesies, the former technician of Bayern Munich still recognized the weaknesses of the evening on the Monegasque side.

“We will have to find solutions in the face of low blocks like today to get there […] It was difficult to find middle people with the marking.

We tried to play behind the back but they were well grouped together.

We lacked creativity… But we must also say that Strasbourg played well.

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Better, of course, that this ASM really not in a good day.

Without percussion in front, little inspired in the middle and quite confused behind.

In total, the Rocher team will have struck 5 times on goal.

For a single shot on target, a recovery from Ben Yedder stopped by Kawashima just before the break.

Either standards far from the last few weeks, when the Monegasques rolled over their opponents, as during this tactical demonstration in Paris (2-0).

“It's football.

We have done some good things over the past two months.

It happens.

We have to continue and get back on track quickly, ”Kovac insisted, resolutely positive and who took the opportunity to repeat the objective of 4th place in the final.

“If you can't win, you have to be able not to lose.

That's why I think that we are not an armed team to obtain the title in Ligue 1 this year.

»Not in (de) playing as in Alsace.

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