Manu Avril (ES Portsall Kersaint coach): “It's not easy to play in conditions like that on a very degraded pitch. Both teams had the opportunities to pass directly, Sizun more in the first, and us in the second. We should have scored in this second half.
The match was complicated to manage, the only regret I have from this match is not even being eliminated, but the cards received. We paid dearly, following this last match of the year, we are already sure of having two suspended players, the complete central hinge for our resumption, on January 12, against Bourg-Blanc. That's what bothers me.
The expulsion of our stopper? The action before is contentious, he was right in his intervention and made a mistake. This Sizun team is on an upward slope, winning two matches in quick succession in the championship has given them a big boost. We, clearly, are positioning ourselves on a new maintenance in R2. We have 13 points, we have had an honorable first part of the season. We undoubtedly won matches that we didn't necessarily deserve, others that we lost where we could, on the contrary, hope for something.
The club is getting structured, in the staff, we have a few more people, the synthetic pitch in Ploudalmézeau, and at home, in Portsall, we have a small synthetic pitch too (half a pitch). We have managed to stretch our recruitment area beyond Portsall. This Saturday, little Milo (Guiavarch), he comes from Saint-Renan (good player), he is interesting on one side. We also recovered from Gouesnou, Oumar Sanogo, in midfield. He played at the beginning of December, in Sizun, his first match with us.
People are starting to see all the work done in the club to stay at this sporting level of R2 for five years. The important thing is that each year, we structure progressively, we would also like to reduce the gap between A (R2) and our B (D2, 5th at mid-championship). I am entering my third season as head coach, and I had previously done three/four seasons as a player. I finished playing with my father on the bench, Marc.
We had asked to change the coach three years before. We relaunched coaching with three former members of the club. I got injured, I also had more freedom to be on the bench. Our R2 group is not easy, I judge the championship to be tougher this year. Portsall, we are at the end of everything, we are measuring ourselves against towns like Morlaix, Brest or Quimper.
We're also trying to remove the label of the division's little thumb from our guys, because that means the team holds up to this level, we have our place. You must not be afraid of others, really tell yourself that you have the level, and still progress. This complex of the small in the middle of the big, we still have it in the club, even after these five years, but it is up to us on the pitch to erase all that and to progress.
We will have a big restart match against Bourg-Blanc. We face a team at home who will arrive with the same number of points. If we are unfortunate enough to lose this match, we can quickly find ourselves in the last four/five of our group. We're going to be stuck playing to maintain, and then we're going straight to Morlaix where it will be complicated. We are confident in our ability to do well in the second half of the season.”
