While his team remains on eight defeats in the last nine days, it is a very offensive and determined Jérôme Arpinon who presented himself at the pre-match press conference, this Friday at the Bastide training center, two days before the trip to Saint-Etienne. Selected pieces.
On the Nice match, lost 2-0 in numerical superiority. “It will be necessary to reproduce the same game, but not the same score. We found a team which presses, which recovers high balls, with a Sarr, a Duljevic or a Roux more in legs. I saw the match again, we did not didn’t have a bad game, but we have to try harder in the last 30 meters. We talked about it with Eliasson, for example, in a video session. Today, we lack a bit of confidence to create additional danger. “
On the injured (11 players were lacking against Nice: Dias, Briançon, Martinez, Meling, Cubas, Deaux, Benrahou, Valerio, Depres, Landre injured at the start of the game and Majouga affected during an internal opposition with the reserve). “Soon, I will have to invent players … There is a part of bad luck because there are very few muscle injuries. Some have struggled to come back after the Covid, like Roux or Briançon; others continue and there is a psychological stress that ends in injury; there were injuries in selection; a nine-week long summer preparation that wore out, but we had to after a long period of shutdown … But we are no longer going talk about the absentees. We will do with the players that we have, and we will get by. I got back Adilson Malanda (19), a tall, intelligent young man from the reserve who has command. register him in the list of 30 of the squad. With Guessoum, with Chadli, who are from Alès and Bagnols, with Buades who is good in training, I have confidence in the young people of the club. If they are the ones who are helping us out of this bad patch, so much the better! “
On the match in Saint-Etienne. “We’re going to go there by wanting to produce the game. I don’t have much choice for the team composition, but we will maybe change a little, put some fresh players. Right now, all the teams are tired, stressed, diminished. It is those who have a little extra something that will be needed. We go there to save our lives, like a little one who will have to find the resources in front of a big one “.
On the club’s financial situation. “The president (Rani Assaf) does his best to keep the club alive. It’s very complicated for all clubs, and I can tell you that we are better equipped financially than others … Do not owe a euro. Match bonuses (which are late, Editor’s note)? “Me, I don’t give a fuck, I leave them!” We are not asking for anything. The most important is maintenance. “
On the sling of some supporters. “We understand that they are unhappy. Staff and players, we are too. But we must not shoot at the ambulance. A patient, you support him or you shoot him in the head? No, you l ‘help out. We want to silence the slanderers and please the supporters who support us. I asked the players to finish well, to join their families, to get out of the context of football at Christmas, and to stop listening to people who want to explain football to us. They have the solution in their legs. We have to focus on ourselves and take refuge in the work, as we did when we were maintained despite the minus 8 points in 2016. “
On his personal situation. “I sleep less, I think more, and with my staff, we try to find the psychological springs. I have the pressure of the result, but otherwise nobody puts it to me. We are aware of the situation, and I have the support of my president and of Reda (Hammache, the sports director, editor’s note). The situation could affect me psychologically, but it is not the case. I have known harder in my life … And sporting, j ‘ve already experienced that, holds, climbs, descents with Cavalli, Froger, Blaquart … “
