When we talk about the strange negative series of the Dijonnais at home in the championship, while they have often largely won on the European scene or in the Coupe de France against Gravelines, the technician does not want to tie knots in the head, even less create it in the heads of its players. “I don’t think about that, the series, that’s for journalists… the series, the records. Me, I think about the content we produce, the matches that happen. There we play Strasbourg 48 hours after a match in Cholet, you just have to do your best to win.”
Reunion with Chikoko
A technician who is necessarily wary of a Strasbourg team where the former Dijon pivot Vitalis Chikoko plays. “It’s a good team with strong players in all positions, an anchor point with Chikoko and Brice Dessert in different profiles (the second is injured in the ankle), a strong position 1 with Maxhuni and Maille, a scorer (Artis), shooters around (Invernizzi, Kruslin, Roberson), and who beat Villeurbanne (at Rhénus at the beginning of December)”, resumes the Dijon coach.
“Coherent things in attack”
« We know their strengths but it is up to us to also exploit their weaknesses. In Cholet apart from the start of the match where we were surprised by their over-aggressiveness, we had a good match. At the end, there are one or two easy baskets that we miss. It’s small details that mean it doesn’t work out in our favor. But there are consistent things in attack, even if defensively there is always the problem of rebounding. The players are the first affected, and we work on it every day, with a lot of discussions. Of course I would like us to win, we are doing everything to get back to winning ways and the players are focused,” tries to reassure the technician, who wants to see progress since the international break. “There are a lot fewer holes since the break, we just have to force our destiny. »
