• The Canaries won (3-0) against Bordeaux, this Saturday, and linked suddenly a third success in a row.

  • Nantes are still 18th and play-offs, but are getting a little closer to the teams just above in the standings, in particular Bordeaux (two points) and Lorient (one point).

Who would've believed that ? FC Nantes, which had won only five matches in the first 33 days of Ligue 1, has just won three in a row, with the last victory (3-0) this Saturday against Bordeaux at La Beaujoire. An unexpected series achieved at the best of times, that is to say in the home stretch of the championship. There are two games left for Nantes, still 18th and play-offs, but now one point behind Lorient (17th) and two points behind Bordeaux (15th).

No one could have imagined, two weeks ago, in Strasbourg, after a half-time unworthy of a formation playing its survival, that FC Nantes would take twelve points out of twelve possible (victories in Strasbourg and Brest and against Bordeaux ). Nobody. Not even the Nantes coach, Antoine Kombouaré. "I would have dreamed yes, but believed no," smiles the technician from Nantes. We're not going to lie to each other. This is why I am vigilant. We have to keep our feet on the ground and continue to be demanding every day to reach our goal at the finish line. "

Two games from the end of the season (trip to Dijon and reception of Montpellier), Nantes can legitimately now dream of a maintenance, and perhaps even a maintenance without going through the dams.

"Where we come from, let's stay calm ...", tempers Kombouaré when asked if he now looks more at the teams in front of him than in the rearview mirror.

An unrecognizable team, including executives

In the meantime, the Canaries never stop winning and scoring.

Two goals in Strasbourg, four in Brest and three this Saturday against a Bordeaux (15th) which could become the new target to aim for and especially to exceed in the standings.

Kombouaré always: “For the dynamics, I prefer to be in my place than that of Bordeaux.

But the reality is that we are always behind.

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How to explain this metamorphosis in a few days? Kombouaré does not change a winning system (4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2). Neither does he replace executives who have regained their level (Louza, Blas, Simon, Pallois) or men on whom he perhaps did not really count a few weeks ago and who are pulling the team up. today (Coulibaly, author of the opening scoring in the 19th minute, and Chirivella).

Add to all this a decisive Randal Kolo Muani, scorer (70th) and who caused the penalty converted by Louza (51st), it gives a conquering formation at the best time in the maintenance operation. “We realized that we were in the red zone,” explains Kolo Muani. That our career is at stake and that we should not bring down the club. A belated awakening, but perhaps beneficial for the club.

Currently, FC Nantes, which had not won at La Beaujoire since the beginning of October, displays the face of a team in full confidence, in full renewal.

"When we collect the balloons, there are spaces, analyzes Antoine Kombouaré", who paid a vibrant tribute to Henri Michel (whose statue was inaugurated this Saturday morning), "the man of a club, the greatest Nantes player ”.

“We play better collectively and we manage to better prepare for situations.

We have lane players who make the differences, both with Simon and with Blas.

We have centers and presence.

The ball burns their feet less as was still the case in Strasbourg.

There is the desire to play together, to defend together.

"And now to win together to keep the FCN in Ligue 1.

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