After a series of five games without a win, the Quevilly-Rouen Métropole club have never been so close to the red zone this season, with only one point ahead of the barrage, Dunkirk. Coach Bruno Irlès wants change and has taken some steps in this direction.
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« We would not even deserve to return by plane but to take 8 hours by bus! It is a furious Bruno Irlès who had analyzed the last exit of QRM in Ligue 2, during the 16th day in Nîmes (1-2). Against another team in difficulty – and almost abandoned by its public – the Norman “Blood & Gold” had nevertheless opened the scoring before being overthrown. Bruno Irlès’ men had then delivered a festival of offensive (25 shots, 5 on target) and defensive (3 shots on target Nîmes, two goals conceded). A shipwreck? Surely not. But the match at Costières was rather the straw that broke a very fragile vase: over the last five days of Ligue 2, QRM is the last team with two points taken out of 15 possible.
Since October 16, the Norman club have scored just two goals, fewer than any other team, and conceded nine. Bruno Irlès’ men nevertheless held their own against Toulouse (0-0) at the Robert-Diochon stadium by giving up possession of the ball and any game ambition, they posed problems for Sochaux, being a little more dangerous (1- 1). But when the opponent is not a top-ranking team, which takes the game on its own: things get complicated: 0-3 at home against Niort during the 12th day, 0-3 at Rodez with a stunt of individual errors in the second half.
A hybrid system
Bruno Irlès didn’t need more to want to change his team from top to bottom. Before the match against Amilly (N3) in the 8th round of the Coupe de France, the coach promised to activate several ” levers In terms of attitudes, choice of players and tactics. The meeting against the amateurs of Loiret served as an experiment in real conditions with a new system detailed in Paris-Normandy : defense with three on the offensive phases and four on the defensive phases, one of the side pistons being replaced, the other remaining higher. Another originality, Till Cissokho, a central defender by training, was tried in the left lane after Dekoke came out at the break. The test paid off against a modest opponent: 5-0 victory.
« When you change things, it was ideal to have a match like this. It is necessarily worth more than a training », Bruno Irlès analyzed after the match. ” We changed things and it showed. Now, we will have to go up a notch if we want them to be as visible next Friday against Nancy. We had a little sluggish 5 minutes, but it should come as no surprise, there were new instructions that had to be assimilated. It doesn’t come like that in a snap. »
The Coupe de France sacrificed?
It is therefore a puzzle that promises to be for Benoît Pedretti, the ASNL coach who will travel to Normandy to face this Quevilly-Rouen “new look”, promising and on which very little data is available. , since Amilly-QRM was not broadcast. This is the best time for Bruno Irlès to surprise his opponents: in December, QRM will receive two direct competitors for maintenance, Nancy therefore, and Caen just before the break, with a difficult trip to Pau, the best home team in the League. 2 with Ajaccio.
This decisive month will be the subject of special management. The Coupe de France, after having served as a laboratory, risks being lost and lost. ” I think Amilly would have preferred to meet us the next round, because my management will be different ”, announces Bruno Irlès. The 32nd final against Laval, three days before the match against Caen may turn to a large staff review, especially as the neighbor weed, eliminated in the 7th round, will not have played during the weekend.
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