With a grimace. The Chartrains, aware of not having done enough and having let 3 precious points slip away, left the locker room with their heads bowed, this Saturday, November 6, after their 2-1 setback at home against the Guingamp reserve. Defender Ibrahima Traoré nevertheless took the time to stop at the microphone to regret in particular the lack of determination of his team.
relive the live of the match
A first goal (head on an Archimbaud free kick), an expulsion and a defeat, tell us about this contrasting evening …
My goal was not used immediately. He gave us a bit of a boost for the second half. But hey, afterwards, I take the red on something that the referee judges to be a blow when I know he did not see. For me, there is a fault. But on me! I am falling, my foot remains in the air and the Guingampais comes up against it… I did not understand why he was expelling me. I don’t know how many matches they will put on me. There are the videos. But the commissions, in N2, do not have time to look …
Beyond your personal case, how do you analyze this setback?
We have to tell the truth, we weren’t good. Despite that, we get four or five clear chances that we do not put to the bottom. If we do it, it changes the course of the match. Sometimes, you have to know how to score when you’re not well. There, we do not do it and we pay dearly for it. We can only blame ourselves …
It’s up to us to question ourselves, to stop seeing ourselves too beautiful, perhaps.
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What do you think he missed?
Already, we lacked control, physics, mentality. We missed a lot of things. Of will too. We can not go from a good match in Lorient to this performance against a much weaker team. Guingamp is much, much less strong than Lorient. For us, this is underperformance. It’s up to us to question ourselves, to stop seeing ourselves too beautiful, perhaps.
premium Facing Guingamp, Chartres shot himself in the foot
This is already the fifth defeat of the CCF …
That’s a lot for a contender for the climb. Knowing that we have Versailles which aligns the victories. If we want to go up, after a while we will no longer have the right to make mistakes. From the month of December, it will be another championship that will begin. We’re adding pressure.
There is nothing more the coach can do. He brought everything. Clearly, we were the ones who didn’t want to.
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Do you still believe in it?
It’s never over. It’s a championship that is very balanced. We know we have a good squad. But, we really have to change the mentality, to be more aggressive. You have to want to. We do not have to settle in comfort, we do not have the players for. You have to be at 200% every weekend and today (Saturday), we were at 50%. It’s up to us to question ourselves, to work, work and work again. We have a mature group, we have to take charge. There is nothing more the coach can do. He brought everything. Clearly, we were the ones who didn’t want to.
Before Poissy, in two weeks, there will be the Coupe de France in Guéret (R1, Creuse), this Saturday, November 13 …
At least that will leave us in the competition. Because friendlies, we know how it is. And maybe playing small, hyper-motivated teams will wake us up.
Collected by Franck Thébault
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