Laurent Batlles appeared at a press conference at noon before the trip to Amiens. Stéphanois’ coach wants to be realistic about the sporting situation, but it is out of the question that he will allow himself to be defeated.
“We tried to analyze why we played a match without it on Saturday. Yesterday we made an opposition against the reserve trying to put a game plan in relation to this weekend trying to see also in the opponents what can be in the training center. And to give confidence to our players by putting something back in relation to what we want to put on the field in relation to Amiens “
Batlles is aware of the situation but wants to be optimistic
“The situation we are in is not an easy situation, we know it well. What I saw yesterday in the opposition about what we played, what we played, the technical quality of the players and the desire they had to win that one. match, even if it was an internal opposition … They showed interesting things, now we have to show it in the match, it’s the competition that counts “
“Sometimes there are things that happen at the start of the game or at the beginning of the first half. At one point we didn’t warm up at half time and then we did. This is not why you win or lose games, but when you find yourself in the situation you are in, you try to control everything. We ask ourselves questions about certain forms of warm-up, even about certain early matches, trying to be more on the opponent’s field than ours. We are trying to find solutions “.
On the system: “I don’t know yet, we’ll see already … We’ll finish training tomorrow morning but we’ll see. You can imagine that at the end of the match against Paris I told you that it was not a success (the 4 player system) so I still prefer to see the games we have done before and play to win the games, rather than play not to be missed “
“We have to stay on a positive basis compared to what we have done from the beginning and this is important for me.”
The full update on the injured
“We recover Léo” # Pétrot, but obviously we lose Abdoulaye #Bakayoko (hamstring problem), Mathieu #Cafaro (problem behind the ischium) and Ayman #Aiki (calf problem) who was injured this weekend. We conclude with the reservation. It will be long enough for Baka and Cafi, maybe a little less for Cafi. These are injuries that penalize us.
The coach wants to protect his group and supports the unity within it
“Saïdou Sow played a game with reserves, yesterday he played against the opposition, I don’t worry about that. Every player on the squad will go to a press conference, he’s part of their job. Whether they are in the group or not, sometimes there are those who have come but have not been part of it. He will be part of it, perhaps. He is fully back to training, I have no problems with him involving him. It is also his job that makes it pass in front of you. “
“I will not talk about the players. I told him at the end of the game, I’m not going to talk about the players. It is a team, a collective. I am part of the staff with them, of what we are going through right now. I don’t stigmatize anyone, I make choices. I will not talk about anyone, neither a goalkeeper, nor a striker, nor a midfielder, nor a defender. I am fully with them and it is important to remain united with each other.
“The group needs to live in total trust. I try to trust them and I’m in the group with them. I am with them, not against them. At times like this, when I announce that we are playing maintenance: we are playing maintenance. We must try to remain positive despite everything so that this club returns to the place it deserves to be. I try to do it “
For Batlles, it is out of the question to ignore the Coupe de France
“Honestly, if we manage to win all the games, I hope to win all the games. The Coupe de France can also allow us to have another competition that allows us to change our mind and we will play it thoroughly. It can allow us to make people play, to stay in a positive form. Above all, I hope that we will win the games, we cannot afford to stay like this.
On the CDF draw: “We play Rodez, Metz and after Rodez. On the 2 races against Rodez we will see if he can or if he will rotate. I don’t think we will change many people because it will allow us to keep moving forward and trying to set up our project. It’s a draw where you only had one team in L2 and we ran into that. We could have fallen against other teams in the region and that would have made everyone happy ”.
Amiens, a solid but not infallible team
“Amiens had a very complicated season last year, more or less like us in terms of rankings, which have been able to move up little by little. This year they have started very well with players with great athletic potential, especially in front, behind … In between they have 3 players with technical quality. Taking Kakuta gives them an even greater offensive weapon. It will be a team that will be hard to move, moreover at home, receiving us. It is never easy to play there. They lost the last game, we watched, analyzed why. We will try to put in place something that can allow us to take the points because we have to keep time running ”.
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