“Angers Relegated to Ligue 2, but Alexandre Dujeux still Sees Positive Signs”

It was only a matter of time, and the Angevins did not try to pretend: “We were very lucid about the fact that it was almost over”underlined captain Nabil Bentaleb after the defeat conceded this Sunday in Rennes (4-2) which officially sent the SCO to L2.

With 5 rounds to go, the main challenge for Alexandre Dujeux’s players will be to do better than Lens and their 17 points won during the 1988-89 season. Nobody has done worse while the SCO today has 14. On what he saw at Roahzon Park, the Angevin coach says he is convinced that “(his) players are not among the worst in the history of the L1 but for that, you still have to get a few points”.

This Sunday, it was played with a hand from Jean-Mattéo Bahoya – while Ibrahima Niane thought he had scored a double (74th) – for the Angevins to bring back at least one from their trip to Brittany. “We want to be rewarded, we are progressing but it is played on details “, could only regret Dujeux. There has undoubtedly been better since Gérald Baticle’s former assistant took over from Abdel Bouhazama in mid-March, but Angers were going too far and he was not paid much. “I see boys fighting, I have in mind feedback on counterattacks until the last second, there are interesting things in the content but the result is not positiveunderlined Dujeux. Players who continue to invest need to be rewarded, there is a taste of unfinished business. We are sad”.

Bentaleb promised that the workforce would be “pro” until the end as two big posters loom against Monaco and Marseille over the next two days. “We will try to work well as in the previous weeks and I am sure that by playing this way, we will be able to take pointshe continued. We must end the season with a burst of pride. After that ? Dujeux did not say no when asked if he would like to continue the adventure at the head of the SCO next year. ” But I am not a decision maker. The club has a lot to deal with. It’s part of one of the files ».