After the elimination in the 7th round of the Coupe de France at Saint-Malo (National 2) last weekend (0-1), the Lorientes return to the championship where they remain on two wins of rank. This Friday, the FCL will be the lawn of Troyens in regain of form. Interview with the technician Mickaël Landreau.
How to react after this elimination in the 7th round of the Coupe de France in Saint-Malo (0-1)?
We can not wait to play and
react quickly! We want to play everything thoroughly, but the story of our season is that we announced that our priority was the championship and we have created a great story in the Coupe de la Ligue. What makes the Coupe de France, when this 7th round has arrived, we missed this little something that we have in the league and League Cup. The scenario of the match made it perfect for Saint-Malo (with a goal from the outset) and we did not manage to get out of the trap. This match required a lot of commitment, availability. We ran out of character, we lost too many balloons.
But I like the fact to say that our career in the League Cup and in the league makes this match, in full international truce, good ... Even if everyone would have preferred a victory in Saint-Malo, well sure. I felt disappointment the next morning of the meeting.
Does the league and Coupe de la Ligue round off disappointment in the Coupe de France?
No. But I think that there are real life stories that have been created around these two competitions, which make the Coupe de France different. I felt it. That does not mean that we did not prepare the match in Saint-Malo, on the contrary. But in all that we are living, we were not ready to play that game.
Running on three boards is also not ideal with the ambitions in the league?
Especially for the month of January!
Your group is ready for the rebound in Troyes?
These are always special weeks with internationals coming back, the Cup. We did training sessions where we can not do everything as we would like. We can not wait to be in a diagram to be able to live fully the last straight until the end of the year.
Pierre-Yves Hamel, out injured in the head against Paris FC 15 days ago, will he be 100% Friday?
A priori, yes, there is no problem.
You have won your last two league games (Béziers 1-0, Paris FC 2-1) in the last minutes. Does this make sense to you?
Yes, that makes special sense. Already, it shows that the entrants bring something, that my team does not let go, that it is able to reverse scenarios not so simple that that at the base. It's enriching. We will also need this kind of match where we must be able, in this way, to take the 3 points. This must give us confidence.
After a difficult start to the season, Troyes remains on 5 wins in the last 8 matches. How do you judge your opponent?
It's a team coming down from L1, with a big squad, who has individualities. She can annoy everyone. It is up to us to continue in what we are doing well to continue our journey.
The last confrontation against Troyes did not leave a good memory at the club, during the stoppage Ligue 1 - League of the season 2016-2017 (victory of Troyes 2-1 in the first leg, 0-0 return to the Moustoir) ...
Few players were from those two games. Today, the club is in another dynamic. Football is so we are found 1 year and 4 months after playing a game of L2. The emotions that the Trojans have experienced behind is a descent into L2 and we are in another dynamic. And frankly, I had not even thought about this dam. Because it has so much to do today ...