This Thursday, on the eve of the Valenciennes’ trip to Saint-Étienne, VAFC coach Ahmed Kantari appeared at a press conference. Extracts.
The AXIS, “a high quality opponent with an offensive armada“
“We must only take care of ourselves and absolutely bring back points from Saint-Etienne. It will be complicated as it was complicated before going to Le Havre, Grenoble or Bordeaux. It will be complicated because there will be a high quality opponent in front, with an offensive armada. They are on a very good second half of the season and in a particular context, the Cauldron. It’s going to be a very, very good game.“
“The players were rewarded for what they put in place, for their work. But I don’t know if the position is really favorable. Above all, don’t be fooled by the rankings, because anything can happen on this last day. I warn all the players that tomorrow we will have to play a big match, a big content, to bring back the points. Because the others will do the same thing in other matches. Tomorrow we play our life. It’s really important to get that message across.“
A boiling context to maintain the VAFC
“We worked, we did everything to continue to stay on the same work dynamic. There were interesting sessions, with quality. This week of work must materialize with points on the match. We approach this last match knowing that there are still 95 minutes to save the club. The ranking can fool a lot of people but tomorrow we have 95 minutes to save the club because we are not maintained and we are on the last day of the championship.”
“Lhe extraordinary thing would be to maintain the club. It will therefore be necessary to do extraordinary things to defeat a high quality opponent in a boiling context. Mentally and physically, you will have to be at 100%. We are more than ever in money-time and it is on this match that we will have to let go of everything.“
“We might not get along too well in the Cauldron“
“We may not get along too well. You have to have this ability to communicate through the look, through gestures, positive body language. There will be moments and low moments.”
“We must also want to play this kind of extraordinary match to live and play. It is therefore necessary to prepare it to take advantage of it, to have fun, knowing that we will have fun by taking points. You have to get it in your head that the pleasure will come from obtaining the maintenance. We will also measure ourselves against a quality opponent, quality players and I am waiting for answers from my players. I want to see where they stand in relation to all of this. I expect them in relation to all that. It will therefore be necessary to win his duels each in his zone to win the collective battle and hope to take points.“
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