“They only have one chance and they blow it.”

Captain of Montpellier HSC, Teji Savanier appeared at the broadcaster's microphone to discuss the match against AS Saint-Étienne. Despite the defeat, the Hérault playing master gave a resolutely positive speech.

Like Arnaud Nordin before him, Savanier regrets the lack of offensive realism of his team against an opponent, who, on the contrary, was able to demonstrate realism in front of the opposing goal: “We lacked accuracy in front of goal. It's a shame because we had a very good match. We have chances, Saint-Étienne doesn't have many but they are effective. Unfortunately, from our On the other hand, we didn't do what we needed to do in front of goal. We can be proud of ourselves, we had a good match, a very good first half. We conceded a goal which hurt us at the start of the second half. half time. The team reacted well.

We talked to each other, we said that that was what we had done. Unfortunately, we lost this match. There are a lot of matches left, we will have to continue to work well. It's a defeat but we responded, we had a very good match overall. We were able to respond physically, in impact, in technical accuracy until the end of the match. It's unfortunate to concede a goal like that, they only have one chance and they put it away.

We certainly missed Akor Adams today but Wahbi had a very good match. We know him very well, he is a technical, powerful player who has a very good shot. He replaced it in the best possible way. There is improvement in the game, we created a lot of chances. We will have to work a little more to improve all of this. We can count on us, we will be here until the end of the season.”

Finally, the MHSC player returns to the huge opportunity in the first half on which Younis Abdelhamid makes a magnificent defensive intervention: “When I see the ball go, I say to myself that's good, I'm going to score. I don't even see Abdelhamid coming. I don't see him coming and I tell myself that I'm going to put my foot down. He takes me well the foot, there is no fault, he plays the ball very well I had already seen the goal I was looking for the ball, I see the referee who designates the penalty point, I knew that he did not. There was no penalty.”