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The Toulouse team showed two faces on the Lorient lawn on Sunday and managed to obtain the three points for victory. But for this, the Toulouse coach was forced to raise his voice.
The walls of the Moustoir shook and that was necessary. Toulouse were unrecognizable during the first period of the Ligue 1 match against Lorient on Sunday April 28. Losing the majority of their duels and an incalculable number of balls, the Violets were eaten by a Lorient team which did not, however, look like a scarecrow. But the change was obvious upon returning from the locker room.
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Asked about what was said at half-time, the different Toulouse players each told their own story of what helped to redress the situation. “The coach told us that as usual we have to go for the three points, fight until the end and not give up,” explained Shavy Babicka modestly, not inclined to give too many details.
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The main person concerned, the coach Carles Martinez Novell did not necessarily want to recite his speech exactly but we understand that he raised the decibels, very unhappy with the face displayed by his team. “I told them that if we wanted to win we had to be much more concentrated and diligent.” Sober.
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To find out what really happened, you had to ask Vincent Sierro. “We were shaken,” begins the Swiss captain. Before reporting the words of the Spanish coach: “He was quite loud. He told us that we trained all week with a lot of quality and that today (yesterday) we didn’t put enough. Too many unnecessary losses of balls, lack of concentration and above all that we weren’t in the match enough collectively, that we were sluggish. But he told us that he had confidence in us, that we had already come from behind several times and that we were going to do it again against Lorient.”
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