A week after its defeat in Dunkirk (1-0), the HAC failed to revive against another northern team, Valenciennes, which left this Saturday from the Océane stadium with the draw it had come to seek ( 0-0).
Still deprived of Thiaré, injured in the knee, the Ciel and Marine have sinned, once again, in the offensive domain. They were however enterprising and dangerous in the first half. Two strikes from A. Ba and Alioui were stopped in two stages by Chevalier, Boutaïb’s header, on receipt of a superb cross from Boura, went to Coté, and Cornette’s direct corner found the transverse .
The same evils in the construction of the game
Coming mainly to defend, the Valenciennes willingly left possession of the ball to the Havres still struggling when it comes to making the game against a low block. Paul Le Guen may have cut all his offensive cards by incorporating Bonnet, PI Ba, Abdelli and the young Samoura, barely 18 years old and whose first appearance on the professional scene, nothing helped. The second half resulted in sterile domination with no real opportunity.
It’s only a point, yes, but if we start to be very disappointed after this kind of match. Paul Le Guen
But the Le Havre coach still preferred to be positive. ” We knew not to lose a match that we did not manage to win. That’s not bad. We should have already done it in Dunkirk. We had in front of us a team that had come to take at least one point, well organized. We didn’t find the flaw, but we kept our organization. It’s only a point, yes, but if we start to be very disappointed after this kind of match… Look at the Valenciennes workforce, at the base, it’s a team built for a possible accession. We must remain calm, of course it is only a draw, but it is consistent, even if we did not create many chances. There was life, a lot of goodwill, but we actually had difficulty in projecting ourselves, in finding the right offensive sequences. In terms of changes, I didn’t want to take ill-considered risks, above all I didn’t want to lose. Now, we have to find our young people at the level where they were at a certain period. This is undoubtedly the reason why we are a little inside compared to our results three weeks or a month ago. But I’m sure it will come back. They have the talent for that, but they have to remember that to become real top players, you have to be consistent. There, they have a real job to do. “
” We are a little frustrated, it was a fairly closed game. Now, we were able to stay strong, athletically, we did I think a good performance, and offensively, we had one or two chances that we could have transformed, analyzed Captain Victor Lekhal. But we lacked a little efficiency, madness in the last gestures. Physically, however, we feel very good, it is rather technically that there may be a drop in speed. We’re missing a lot right now. We must raise the level with the objective of varying our game, to find solutions to get around this kind of block. “
After fifteen days, the HAC remains in 5th place. After entering the competition in the 7th round of the Coupe de France, next Saturday in Vierzon (N3), he will return to the championship on November 20 with the reception of Amiens.