From talk to action, so you’ve doubled the workouts this week. What will you remember, Frédéric Antonetti?
” We have worked. We didn’t do anything either. It was simply to say that if we don’t work, we are not efficient. We have no margin. I told the players: you did some really good things and at one point you felt that you couldn’t be 5e or 6th. Lille (0-2) escapes us while we have a good match. Monaco, there have been events. Games have eluded us for other reasons. There was an unconscious slackening and there was Nîmes. If we win, we have 49 points, the season is good. There, you spoil everything, it’s a shame. You have two games to catch up. “
Do you expect a jump in the field?
” I do not know. I am waiting to see. Our doctor summed up our state of mind. It’s like when you’re in class at the end of the year, and there are two weeks left, no longer working and playing board games. It was a bit like that. But it’s a shame to have given a good image on the state of mind and to give an image like that. You know, I did the count. Metz gave the chance to play in the first division to practically three quarters of the workforce. It’s enormous. When you have 30 games in L1 behind you, it’s a shame to spoil. After that, nothing should be taken away from them either. The players have given a lot and at some point there is a decompression. When it does, you have to be good enough to be on top of the motivation. “
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“We must not relax”
Do you feel an adhesion of the locker room to this speech?
“The answers, we have them in match. Afterwards, they are good guys. And these are things that will serve us well. When we work, we have results. When we relax, we have a little less. We must not relax. “
Lorient, which is also fighting for its maintenance, will present you with the same issues as Nîmes this Sunday …
“Did you find Nîmes starving?” Me no. We were bad, so bad technically speaking that we couldn’t get anything out of it. When you don’t deserve anything, you get nothing, so much the better. Lorient is playing for survival, it’s going to be a difficult match. The question is: can we be focused while still being relaxed? This is the strength of great players. We can’t do it. But I hope there can be a burst. “
Could you be tempted by a return to a five-headed defense?
” I can. The 4-3-3 has its virtues, playing with five too. I can do both. I have a lot of hope for this team in the future. We started a long way off, everyone forgot about it, but today, we can go from 5-3-2 to 4-3-3 in the middle of a game. Before, I couldn’t do it. It took a minimum of a week’s work. Now there are gains. There should be motivation at the same time but we have acquired. With the five substitutes, it’s an extra force that I couldn’t use six months ago. “
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