“The cut has done us all a lot of good“, assured Antoine Kombouaré two days before FC Nantes’ trip to Monaco. The Canaries obviously did not come out of it and the score (0-2) less than ten minutes after the kick-off of the meeting Unable to react and offer play, the Yellows and Greens sank in the great widths, this Sunday afternoon. Unquestionably one of the worst matches of the Kombouaré era (1-4), which places his men in a very uncomfortable sixteenth place in Ligue 1.
Nantes gives the stick to be beaten
The Canaries never had time to try to shake up this Monegasque formation which was coming out of three consecutive successes. Coming to Louis-II with a five-man defense, the Canaries were scuttled from behind. The weakness of Girotto on the opener and the passivity of Jean-Charles Castelletto on the second goal are striking examples. Two faults, two goals and a folded game. “If we want to get results outside, we have to put our ass on the ground“, launched Alban Lafont, Friday. They especially put the knee on the ground in princely land, admitting defeat after a quarter of an hour of play.
We put ourselves in the shit alone, we did anything at the start of the meeting.
So much resignation from the band in Sissoko, in great pain in the midfield, is rare enough to be underlined. “It’s a slapregrets the defender, Nicolas Pallois.The match was folded after ten minutes.” “We were simply picked cold, notes Antoine Kombouaré in the corridors of the Monegasque enclosure. We never got into the game. This is the first time that it happens to me“. From the sidelines, Ludovic Blas watched helplessly as his partners broke down.”We put ourselves in the shit all alone, we did anything at the start of the meeting“, loose number 10 of the Yellows. And it was not much better after the meeting where the Yellows only timidly woke up at the end of the match, thanks to several changes.
“We have too many players who are not at their level”
The gap seemed abysmal from start to finish between the formation of Philippe Clément, led by a Wissam Ben Yedder author of a hat-trick and now ASM’s top scorer in the 21st century, and FC Nantes. “We were not at the level tactically and mentallyanalyzes Evann Guessand. We weren’t there collectively.“Unfortunately, this is too often the case this season for the eight-time French champion who has only won a small game.Against Monaco, it’s a game to forgetassures Pallois. I think it’s an accident. We will have to react.“
My role is to reassure the players and above all that they don’t lose confidence.
The task of the coach of the Canaries promises to be immense, at the end of this ninth day of the championship as looms a hellish schedule until the World Cup. “We ask ourselves questions to put the players back in itto react, blows Kombouaré. It’s up to me to find the springs to try to bounce back very quickly because big deadlines are coming. The role of journalists is to criticize when things are going badly and praise when everything is going well, mine is to reassure the players and above all that they do not lose confidence because today too many players are not at their level.“And it shows in the results.