This is not the first time in recent weeks that the Greens have missed their start. Against Auxerre already, it was only decided by a few centimeters in favor of ASSE for the Greens did not concede the opening score after only a few seconds of play. A week later in Bastia, it was repeated with a penalty conceded in the second minute of play where Larsonneur had to pull out all the stops to save his family. Against Ajaccio and Bordeaux, the Greens did not shine from the start either while in Grenoble, it is almost miraculous that the scoreboard did not move to the disadvantage of ASSE in the first fifteen minutes.
These failed starts are necessarily a subject at AS Saint-Étienne as the coach confides, Olivier Dall’Oglio : “We have had some problems at the start of matches for a while now. I think we want to do so well that we don’t do well. We discussed it, we don’t go into matches like we did at one point, we think too much and it’s not good. We wait to take a shake or two to get back into the match. Somewhere we have to play down all that, we see it as soon as we are in place, it’s something else. This latency time needs to be worked on. Everything will come together of course: the stakes, the final sprint, it’s tight but that, in some ways, could be expected. It’s logic. We have to keep this state of mind and this freshness that we had and still have, but throughout the match.”
Many of them spoke on the subject after the meeting in Grenoble. Dylan Batubinsika was the one who had the strongest words: “It was a complicated start to the match, clearly! We emphasized it in the locker room before the match, telling ourselves to be careful not to give gifts but that didn’t change anything because our start to the match was catastrophic during the first fifteen minutes. Afterwards, we managed to get back on track, impose our rhythm and dominate this meeting and in the end we came out with the result. I think we need to work on the start of the match. Enter matches with the right intensity, head in place, very focused. Better than what we were able to do today, in Bastia… It’s up to us to enter the match focused, from the warm-up.”
Florian Tardieu spoke of this failed start but also spoke of the beautiful end of the Saint-Etienne match: “We start the matches very badly and the coach has shown it to us several times on video. We said it to each other before the match, in the locker room, we are preparing for that. And finally, we give them two gifts. Fortunately he doesn’t score, because otherwise it’s another match. But it’s true that we finish the matches well, we see that in each match, the starters do good and that is the strength of this group, it is very important.“
Same story with Dylan Chambost : “We got off to a bad start to our match again, it’s a bit recurring at the moment. I think we get moved a little by the opponent. We made a lot of technical errors in the first quarter of an hour, which gave the opponent confidence. We were able to bounce back and take control of this match afterwards.”
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