“It’s up to us to take the measure of this Ligue 1 and quickly”

After explaining to us for two years that Ligue 2 was a very physical championship where duels were of paramount importance, the Stéphanois came up against the demands of Ligue 1, just as complicated. Without managing to compete with its competitors for the moment, the Greens and their coach Olivier Dall’Oglio want to compensate with an impeccable state of mind and a combativeness which must compensate for this physical deficit at the start of the season.

An observation made Leo Petrot at a press conference this Thursday discussing the change in dimension between the requirements of Ligue 2 and Ligue 1: “In Ligue 1, the intensity, the duels, everything is at a higher level. We have to be more solid in our team block. We have to improve our level of play, we want to become stronger on this point to succeed in achieving our objective of maintaining Ligue 2 was already difficult but in Ligue 1 the level rises, the duels too but also the speed of the sequences If individually we all move up a notch then collectively, all together. , we will be able to come out with good matches.

We have a new group, a fairly young team, we certainly need a little time. We alternate between the good and the less good at the start of the season, it’s up to us to take the measure of this Ligue 1 and quickly.”

Reigning Ligue 2 champion, AJ Auxerre comes to Geoffroy-Guichard this Saturday. A decisive meeting facing a direct competitor to maintain that Leo Petrot does not want to approach it only as a decisive match for the rest of the Greens’ season: “I don’t know if we’re up against the wall before this match against Auxerre. We simply no longer want to wait to be slapped before being able to react, even if sometimes it feels good. There are things that we will not reproduce, we have learned our lesson. I wouldn’t say that the match against Auxerre is a turning point, the championship is still a long way behind, now, it’s a team that should play to maintain with us, we are playing at home, we will have to give everything.”