FC Sochaux can validate its maintenance in mathematically national. Is this the only issue on Friday against Boulogne?
This is the only issue, yes. Above all, this is what I said to the players this week: I would like us to go and seek the maintenance by ourselves and that we are not there to wait for the results of others. In terms of state of mind and fighting spirit, once again I have nothing to blame the players, even if once again it was not enough to get out of the field with a positive result. Knowing that we will have a lot to do in Boulogne, who can hope to go up directly. They will do everything to be at least barragist. You have to expect a committed match on their part. But we will not go there as an expiatory victim.
More generally, what would you hope to get by the end of the season?
Only the maintenance, and try to take as many points as possible on these last three games. There is no longer to hope. I respected the institution and I will continue to do so, especially this weekend. Sochaux is a team that has always worked by launching young people and I used no less than eight-nine young this season. We cannot make young people play, they are received ideas. On the other hand, sparingly, we must bring young people in the main bath. This is what I tried to do too, and I will do it until the end … From the moment it has qualities, it must be launched. Like Victor Joseph, I always wanted to integrate it into training but there has always been something that made me not. He had given me a good week of training, but he was struggling against Dijon and taking him out at the break did him service. It also showed him what the high level was, at least in National.
What are you waiting for in the attitude of the players on Friday?
I will not let go. I want them to show me the same desire, the same fighting spirit, the same as against Dijon. I asked them to continue to be professional with a big P. It is not because we do not win the matches that we are not pro. […] It was a season with imponderables every week, with players on the sidelines. We face until the end. I will respect the institution to the end, and I liked my passage here. I speak as if I will not be next season here, but my management has not yet told me anything. In any case, I will respect the institution to the end.
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