The DFCO is on the eve of an extremely important game. Travel to Grenoble on Saturday November 12, 2022, for the 15th day of Ligue 2. Important, because it is the last meeting before the six-week truce for the World Cup. Important, too, because Dijon remains on ten games in a row without winning. Important, above all, because the DFCO risks passing this truce in the relegation zone. In a pre-match press conference, the striker Mickael Le Bihan (4 goals), the only outfield player in all matches, ensures that everyone at the club is aware of the urgency of the situation, and hopes that the truce will allow the machine to be restarted.
In content, the last match, this draw against Guingamp (1-1), is encouraging?
I think it gave us a little more confidence, especially the start of the second period
. We saw that when we pushed it was easier for us to have chances, and more complicated for the opponent. We will have to reproduce that in Grenoble.
In recent weeks, strong words have returned to the speeches of the players. “Anger”. “Shame”. Did these words positively shake the band?
We are in a complicated situation. Everyone needs to understand that this is alarming. I think it was above all necessary to convey this message. I think we don’t have any cheaters in the team, it’s not even I think, I’m sure: we don’t have any cheaters. I think the message has been understood. We had two games left with these “holidays”, we drew, now we need three points. It would be great to go up the rankings, for confidence, to leave quietly and resume at 100% as soon as the recovery.
The truce, but also the relegation zone… is there a form of urgency to stop this series?
Of course, it’s huge, we are nine games without a win in Ligue 2. We are aware. We try to react. Now it’s not football anymore, it’s in people’s minds. We have to react in Grenoble and show that we want to rectify all these mistakes.
Grenoble is 3rd. This is not the ideal place to relaunch…
Not ideal, but we can only blame ourselves. We grilled a lot of jokers. Now, whether we play first or last, they are finals. We lost a lot of points, we have to get out of this area which is very dangerous. There, it’s not until February if things are better, it’s until the end of the season, fighting on every ball, on every match, to show that the bad series was not can -may be just a stroke of fatigue, but it must not happen again.
The truce will last six weeks for the DFCO, before the resumption on December 26 against Laval. How do you envision it?
Personally, it will do me good. I feel tired, we had a complicated preparation, so we had to undergo it. I think that afterwards, it will be a new championship. This year there will be two championships. The games that have passed and the next ones. We will work physically, we have a very good staff. We will have to be ready for the recovery. I could be wrong, but I sincerely think that teams will go up in the standings, and that others will go down, because physically it will be difficult to go from December to June.
Is this your hope? That the Ligue 2 championship cards are completely reshuffled?
I could be wrong, but for me yes, it is sure and certain. Doing a preparation course is not given to everyone, you need to have a competent staff. We have it. So it’s up to us to work, to make the efforts they ask of us to be ready. I sincerely think that teams will fall, and others who were less well will regain the monopoly.
- Grenoble – DFCO, to follow in full on France Bleu Bourgogne Saturday November 12, 2022. We are waiting for you from 6:45 p.m. for the pre-match, with the latest info on the line-ups and the atmosphere on site, 7 p.m. for the kick-off of the integral!