The Le Mans coach, Patrick Videira, therefore did not lie. He claimed to take this 32e final “very seriously”. His coming to Michelon to supervise Mayverick Compper's partners against Saint-Émilion was proof of this. The pros of Le Mans FC (10e of National) did the job seriously and without pity for Petit Poucet Marmandais. “We had to take this match even more seriously as the conditions were not easy to offer play.” The technical and physical dimension made the difference.
“I told my players that we shouldn't give them hope and that we had to be very aggressive and intense from the start of the match to try to be effective. » The message obviously got across well. The Marmandais did not have time to get into their match as they were already down 2-0 after less than ten minutes of play. Patrick Videira's men thus killed off the opening match by captain Lauray (5e) and Rabillard (10e). Caught on poorly cleared balloons, the FCM was already seeing its dream of taking flight.
“An N3 level team”
The scenario so feared by Marmandais coach Nicolas Florès therefore killed all suspense from the start. The residents of R2 never really existed in this meeting. “That’s how football is,” continues Patrick Videira. It's certain that when you score quickly, the opponent takes a blow to the back of the head. We then managed to score the third and fourth goals before half-time. It hurt them. We didn't give them hope and the match was over at halftime (0-4). »
“We played a serious match, we respected them from start to finish,” summarizes the Manceau coach. It's a very good thing not to have conceded a goal and to have scored 7. But I continue to say that Marmande is a very good team. It's a team that has the level of N3 with players who are capable of going very quickly. The terrain didn't help them either. But congratulations to this team which, I hope, will move up to R1 at the end of the season because it has quality players. »
