For the first time in his coaching career at Nîmes Olympique, Nicolas Usaï lost. First defeat in four games. Logical setback against the relegated Dunkirk who had not won in the league since October 30. He missed a lot of things in Nîmes to hope to win. Reduced to 10 after the (severe) expulsion of Omarsson nine minutes after coming into play (67th minute), the crocos cracked on the goal of Kévin Rocheteau (0-1, 73rd). The Nîmes coach, after the match, is fatalistic: “It’s a logical defeat given our first period, we didn’t manage to get out of our camp, we didn’t manage to advance. We struggled to find imbalances, to find fluidity in the game. They really caused us problems. On the goal, we lack a little experience. When we are 0-0 at 10 against 11, we must be able to calm down, we want to play quickly. We are a little missed out on the match, the Dunkirk team caused us a lot of problems (…) We must remain temperate, after the third victory, we must not get on fire and there we are not going to set ourselves on fire .”
Next Ligue 2 meeting, against Caen, another poorly ranked
For this match at the Michel d’Ornano stadium, the Nîmes will have to react. Stadium where crocos are never imposed in Ligue 2 (3 draws and 5 losses). On the other hand, the Nîmes won during their last trip to Ligue 1 in Calvados: success 1-2 on December 5, 2018.
Caen-Nîmes, Saturday February 12 at 7 p.m. Meeting to live live and in full on France Bleu Gard Lozère.