FC Lorient have qualified for the knockout stages of the Coupe de la Ligue. Thanks to a goal from the reserve striker, Abdoul Bila (26), the Merlus dominated Toulouse FC at the Stadium. The FCL continues on its way!
Mickaël Landreau (FC Lorient coach) : "It's a great match, the dynamic continues, it's positive, I told the boys: you deserve to play that game, you've been qualified twice outside (Valenciennes and Ajaccio, twice 1-0) I'm happy for the whole club, there are a lot of young people playing, people from the reserve, when they are with us, we talk the same football.
It's been 3-4 days since we were working on that match. It was not necessary to panic when Toulouse used the ball, rather well. This is a team that doubles the passes, which sets up game patterns that are not simple. The first half was interesting. There was a control of the ball of Téfécé, but without really being dangerous. And the more the game progressed, the more I told my players that the time was going to play for us. The difference came from the bench, it's great.
Bila? It's nice. He had already made a consistent entry to Valenciennes. I felt we needed freshness offensively to be able to put more doubt in our opponent. We did not do everything well, but this result is important in our collective dynamic. "