The final score
As long as you don’t put the ingredients into a match, you can’t win. We could have played for 10 years, the score would have been the same. We played without desire, without determination, it’s complicated in these cases. This lack of rhythm, this game in fits and starts, it really bothers me. When we play Football, it’s to win, it’s to score.
The opponent
Without disrespecting our opponent whom I congratulate, I don’t think we lost because Reims were excellent, I think we lost because we weren’t up to standard. We were well below what we are capable of doing. Quite simply. We will take a step back to analyze this meeting.
The Greens run out of desire
Football is about determination, running forward and the desire to put the ball in the back of the goal. When we look at the score and the ratio of chances, we can be disappointed because we had the chances with excellent crosses from Romanelli into the penalty area. From the moment we don’t score, it makes the match more complicated.
The chosen starting XI
The medical green light for Caputo and Lamontagne was 30 minutes, so we adapted. But the absence of these players offered others the opportunity to start. When you have reduced playing time and you have the opportunity to play against a team that is playing to maintain, you have to show yourself. I am disappointed with what we did collectively. I’m not going to blame anyone in particular. For me, it is a collective failure. It was the group of 18 that was not satisfactory.
