Coming out of nowhere last Sunday at La Beaujoire, FC Nantes has certainly managed to limit the damage by snatching a draw against Ajaccio
, but the eight-time French champion still lost points along the way. After Clermont and Reims, the Canaries have a third game without a win. “With four descents, you have to wake up quicklythunders defender Andrei Girotto. It’s good to come back to the score, but you have to do much better at home, you have to take points, win.“Because with only two successes since the start of the season, the Yellow House is in a most uncomfortable situation at the time of the international break, concedes the side Dennis Appiah. Maintenance.
“It’s too little, we are aware of it”
What is your assessment of this draw against AC Ajaccio?
A point is better than nothing. We wanted to take three, especially at home, where it is important to win matches but we weren’t good enough to hope for more. We will say that this point is already interesting.
How do you explain this very average performance?
I think we made a good first quarter of an hour. We have situations but we do not materialize them. We thus give confidence to Ajaccio who plays with his weapons and who has the going. Ajaccio creates chances, gains confidence and tells itself that there are points to win. In the second half, we took two counterattacks that killed us but the positive point is that we had this character to try to come back. We managed to do it today, but we can’t do it against all the teams. The idea would be not to take a goal and to score before in the match.
Why is this team more reaction than action?
Because we didn’t want to leave with a defeat. Even when you lose, you have to work, do the job. Ajaccio also slows down a bit when it leads 2-0 and we have a big audience with us so don’t give up on him. But we have to approach the matches as if we were losing 2-0.
From an accounting point of view, too many points are missing.
You only took two points in three games against direct competitors. How do you analyze this?
It is too little, we are aware of it. Even with this point, we have the chance to grab a place, to be 15th and therefore to not be among the four relegated. But in terms of accounting, too many points are missing.
“We defend badly”
What did you say to each other in the locker room after this match?
We must realize that this is not enough. and that if we continue like this we are going straight to the problems. We are lucky to be 15th. We now have to rest and clear our heads in order to come back showing something else to take the points that we did not take in the first 15 games.
Why can’t you do it against teams “in your league”?
I don’t have all the answers but on our highlights, you have to kill the opponent and that’s not what we do. Our weak times also last too long and we find it difficult to manage them. It’s complicated because it restores the opponent’s confidence, it hurts us and the opponent, when he shoots, he scores. As for us, we defend badly. We have to work hard when we come back from vacation because we have other things to do in the second half of the season. We have another face to show.
Do you consider that FC Nantes is in its place?
Yes, we didn’t take any points and no one stole any from us. We may deserve two more in Nice
but on the other meetings, it could have turned out differently. We did not deserve to have many more points than the 13 we have today.