It is particularly with the Free Midday that Jean-Louis Gasset presented himself at a press conference after the humiliation suffered against Puy-Foot, a National 2 club. The MHSC coach was trying to find the right words to evoke the moment:
“It’s a feeling of shame, it’s a competition that could give us a little oxygen. We will analyze it carefully. We were swept aside, we were eaten in every duel. We missed the first two chances. Maybe if we had opened the score. Mentally, it's very worrying.
Since I arrived, we have played many away matches, we have not taken a point, we have not scored a goal, that means that the situation was important. I hoped that in a competition, we could show more mental quality. There, we gave up.
Once we were behind, they played their game, there was a very good team up front, there were two or three players who wouldn't be out of place with us. For Nicolas Pays it seemed that the terrain was not bumpy for him, whereas for us, it was. This is a general condition. I've been here for two months and at Mosson, little by little, we tried to find something again, to hook up with higher-ranking teams. But this evening, we will have to get over it.
While there is talk of letting our players go on vacation, because yes, like all of us, they are entitled to it, the Montpellier Hérault coach delivered his final instructions:
“Let them clear their heads, like us. Because we've been under pressure for two months, we've been suffering, we've been living very poorly. We try to restore hope, to say that it is possible. But this one is going to hurt us, even if it's another competition and we knew that we certainly weren't going to win the Coupe de France. The number one objective is to save the club. We're going to use that, we're going to say that it's a day without, we were eaten, we were swept away. And we will leave to start on January 4 in Lyon then the last match, to try to fulfill the mission. »
