Entangled in a negative spiral, with 7 games without a win in Ligue 2 and now a fairly logical elimination in French Cup on the AS lawn Cannes (N2) in the 32nd finals (3-2), Grenoble seems very far from where we expected it to be at the start of the season. It's a fact: today, the GF38 – which nevertheless has the top scorer in the championship in Pape Meïssa Ba (10 goals at the winter break) and a relatively balanced team – unfortunately no longer scares its opponents. In the mixed zone after the elimination at the Pierre-de-Coubertin stadium, the replacement goalkeeper Bobby Allain did not mince his words after a brief analysis of the strangely familiar defeat. He knows very well that he will not have to waste time to win again from the restart, on January 3 against Bastia, at the risk of slipping dangerously towards the red zone.
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“The whole locker room is disappointed. It's a bad phase, but we wanted to end (the year) on a good note. We said things to each other, but we were unable to react and put the necessary elements on the ground. Unlike our opponent. (The goals conceded), these are things that are repeated compared to previous matches too. At the start of each match, we take one quickly, we lower our heads, we don't believe it… The difference is that we responded quite quickly today by equalizing, I say to myself “that's it , we are going to bring out the ego and our personality”, but we are diving back into our faults. »
A defeat that “will hurt for a long time”
“We told ourselves at half-time that it wasn't over, even at 3-1, that anything was possible. We had chances in the first half and we could get more in the second by pushing hard. We didn't know how to score (early enough) and we even found ourselves down to ten just before the end of the match, which didn't help us […]. Personally, I think this defeat will hurt my head for a long time. I'm going to try to cut it, I think everyone will do the same. We better come back with teeth scratching the floor. Because by playing like that, we're not going to achieve anything. We are not at all like our supporters who have supported us from the start, at every match. They have values that we don't have on the ground. We really have an interest in getting off our butts quickly, to earn points and hope for an interesting second half of the season. »
Source : ledauphine.com
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