“It’s up to us to play with the guts”

It was the Montpellier Hérault SC goalkeeper who presented himself at a pre-match press conference, to discuss the trip to the AS Saint-Étienne pitch, this Saturday at 7:00 p.m. on the occasion of the 12th day of the French Ligue 1 Championship.

Benjamin Lecomte, who had lost his number 1 status, is back in the Hérault cages. He approaches this meeting at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium without adding additional pressure, despite this duel between direct competitors for the maintenance which is coming. For the experienced goalkeeper, it will be necessary to play with guts in a stadium where it is difficult to come and play: “Saint-Étienne is not a first turning point. All the matches are turning points in our situation. We take the matches one after the other, we prepare our week accordingly. What we need is to take decisions points. On the fact that it is a direct competitor, we are aware of it but when it is Lille, it will be the same, Lens, ditto etc… We focus first on what we have for this weekend.

The objective is already this weekend to try to bring back a victory away from home, it will be very complicated, there is an opponent who is in a similar situation to us. We take the matches one after the other and we will see afterwards, when we have passed Saint-Étienne, what is in front of us. We focus on what we can touch, we have a match in Saint-Étienne. It's going to be up to us to play with our guts because we know very well that it's difficult there.”