The dismay of the Canaries.

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LOIC VENANCE / AFP

  • FC Nantes lost (1-2) against Reims on Wednesday night at La Beaujoire while the Canaries were still leading 1-0.

  • Ten days from the end, Nantes (19th) is on the Ligue 2 motorway.

Players staring into their shoes.

An employee, alone in the middle of the huge Jules Verne platform, his head in his hands, looking for support that will not come.

After the final whistle from Nantes-Reims on Wednesday evening, a funeral silence permeated the Beaujoire stadium, still desperately empty.

FC Nantes lost a twelfth match, but this one should count more than the others… There are defeats that hurt more than the others.

“There is especially disappointment because quite honestly, I have the feeling that the players had a good match, tried to positively an Antoine Kombouaré, calm, but lucid.

We have several 2-0 balls, we are not able to score.

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After Simon (14th) opened the scoring, Blas twice, but especially Kolo Muani should have doubled the stake.

But, again, they failed over a rather consistent period in collective expression.

Reims equalized on "a fault of hand" of Lafont, according to Kombouaré, just before the break.

Then, the second period looked a bit like the Nantes season.

Sluggish and often confused, sometimes encouraging and desperate when Reims took the advantage two minutes from time on their second shot on target ...

Abdoulaye Touré offensive in front of the microphone

"It's very hard, we feel very disappointed players, they are not far from feeling dejection, recognizes coach Antoine Kombouaré.

When we look at the statistics, we are fragile, sick.

We are in the hard, to put it mildly.

The Nantes coach said he was "very keen to fight for this club".

“There are games and work to lift your head.

Either you let go and you agree with your opponents and we are on vacation and we go to L2.

Either we hang on, we fight and we do everything to make up for this deficit.

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In the meantime, the FCN is up to its necks ten days from the end.

Even if Nantes (19th) is not yet dropped (3 points behind 17th, Lorient), we do not feel this formation capable of waking up, of revolting to avoid the avania of Ligue 2 in May.

Even more when we hear the alarmist speech (and a little excessive) of Abdoulaye Touré in the post-match conference: "We say to ourselves today that we are playing a match like any other, but it is not this attitude you have to have.

We play like it's a friendly match.

Today, we are at the bottom of the hole and it is not with services like that that we are going to get by.

If we go down to Ligue 2, it's a loss for us, but also the employees.

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