FC Pau players hope to end the year with a success on the lawn of Niort. They play at 8:45 p.m. for the 19th day of league 2 football. “To have better results”, says coach Didier Tholot. This end of the year is an opportunity for him to take stock.
FC Pau “must be more solid defensively”
The Pau did not shine very much on the outside. “The observation is that we take too many away goals. And those that we have taken in the last four or five games are largely preventable : we score at Le Havre against our camp, the first strike at Sochaux, it is a counter-hit without danger, penalty at Auxerre we put our hand … There, there are a lot of things and today if we want to achieve results, we will have to be more solid defensively “. Then he continues : “Over the last ten games we have taken 15 or 17 goals, to score 11. We are in deficit but playing the ball is not playing to play, it is playing to win. Each time after the games at outside, you hear ‘we did not go far, we did not go far’ but that does not help things. We need to be more rigorous “.
End on a positive note and be able to erase the faults that we have on the outside and not put the knife in the throat every time we play at home
On the other hand, at home FC Pau accumulate seven victories and three defeats against Toulouse, Dunkirk and Quevilly. 2-1 loss last week at Nouste Camp stadium. “I still have it in my throat but it balances. There was Dunkirk, now there is Quevilly too. We are not doing away results and we cannot win everything at home”, declares Didier Tholot. He now wants to focus on the game against Niort “to end on a positive note and to be able to erase the faults that we have on the outside and not to put the knife in the throat every time we play at home”.