Nantes lost at the Parc des Princes against PSG on Saturday night.
While they were on the power play and returned to the game a quarter to go, the Canaries conceded two goals in the dying minutes.
A scenario that greatly frustrates coach Antoine Kombouaré.
At the Parc des Princes,
End of the afternoon rich in emotions for the people of Nantes. Astonished to be still alive at half-time after taking waves from all sides for 45 minutes, they almost saw each other win at the end of the game, before wondering how they had finally managed to lose it. . In the mixed zone, they all had only one word to say: “Frustrating”.
Winners here last season, the Canaries almost did it again.
Ghostly in the first period and only kept afloat by the talent of Alban Lafont, they straightened the bar as soon as they returned from the locker room, rekindled by the words of Antoine Kombouaré.
“He spoke positively, insisted that there was only one to zero.
That galvanized us, says Samuel Moutoussamy.
And then we questioned ourselves.
We said to ourselves "we are football players, we have to play football!"
"
"We wanted to attack, score the second"
Indeed, it is more practical to win a match. Higher on the field, more conquerors, the Nantes people gradually put pressure on PSG, until the turn of the 65th minute. Ludovic Blas, the only one to float for an hour, is launched in the depth. In the duel with Kehrer, he did not even have time to see Navas tumble down, knee forward, before taking him in full swing. “He took my shoulder, my chest, everything,” he breathes an hour later in front of us, still marked.
Red card for the Costa Rican goalkeeper, of course, and the game that really turns. Blas fails to equalize in stride, it is finally Kolo Muani who succeeds, in two stages. There is still a quarter of an hour to play, 11 against 10. The Nantes people believe in it ... Maybe a little too much. "We wanted to attack, score the second," recognizes Pedro Chirivella. Kombouaré brings in Cyprien and Geubbels to better hold the ball and put people in the box. But five minutes later, the tile. Dennis Appiah sent an innocuous ball into his goal by lobbing Lafont from 25 yards.
"A goal gag," sighs Blas.
"We redo this action 10 times, it never fits like that," continues Moutoussamy.
It really weighed on us.
The contact is cut, and the Canaries will then watch Messi fold the meeting just before the end of regulation time.
“I am very disappointed, even angry, plague Kombouaré.
We suffered a lot in the first half, but we had a very, very good second half.
We managed to do what we wanted, to move forward, we logically came back to the score, but we had a point and we were not able to keep it, or even get better.
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"It's ridiculous, but that's how it is"
Easy in these cases to go over it, to wonder what we could have done better. "In the control of the ball, we are 11 against 10, we must take our time, not rush and not give them the monopoly of the ball", explains Kolo Muani. "We were a bit in between, we may not have tried hard enough", judge Moutoussamy. “We wanted to hold the ball, work this team on the width, make them run, the solutions would come… But we lost some balls. It's ridiculous, but that's how it is, ”summarizes the coach.
Result, Nantes continues a third game without a win and misses the opportunity to return to see what happens in the first half of the classification.
A little early, perhaps.
“We lack personality,” says Marcus Coco.
It may be a sequel to last season, which was difficult.
Anyway, history repeats itself after the meeting against Strasbourg two weeks ago.
The Canaries will have to learn from their mistakes.
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