the essential
After a weekend without a match, Jérémy Fernandez’s CO returns to the competition against Montpellier this Saturday afternoon at Pierre-Fabre. With the desire not to reproduce the errors of Oyonnax. Kick-off for this twenty-third day of the French Championship, 5 p.m.
The setback at Oyonnax was difficult to take. Do you have the feeling that the group has moved on?
Yes, because it has to be anyway. All matches are difficult, but whatever the result, we must quickly move on, even if this defeat hurt and slowed down our ambitions. Now we just have to take the matches one after the other.
So it’s no longer a question of ambitions? More than four stages at the end of the season?
We have to think like that, yes. If we can win the last four games, we will, be sure of it. We’ll do the math at the end. We will have to fight every weekend if we want to have a good end to the season.
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On the other hand, we have to move on, but we also have to understand what went wrong in Oyonnax. Is that the case ?
You understand but you still think about it 25 times… And then when you fail several times five meters from the line, you miss four clear chances, and you finish at 13, you don’t need to be good at rugby to do the calculation. We could have made the match easier, but we made too many errors of imprecision. In fact, it’s also been several matches that we haven’t been effective enough. We enter the scoring zone a lot, but we too rarely come out with points.
And how do you work on this efficiency?
Trying to be more precise. At this level, it matters a lot. All the players are good. But the difference between a good player and a great player is their ability to be consistently precise. We have to be tougher on ourselves and our teammates. They say you train like you play, so let’s be tougher in training.
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However, you often highlight the quality of your training. Can we say that you train better than you play?
(he hesitates) It’s hard to say. The waste we have on the weekend, it necessarily comes from somewhere. And during the week, we still have a little waste. It’s frustrating because, when you look at the group, we have the capacity to do great things, as we have seen this season. But we also had some less good moments.
Without talking about the objective, this reception from Montpellier could at least allow you to definitively rule out the threat of the 13e place ?
That would already be it, like that, we wouldn’t talk about it anymore and we would look a little more ahead. That would relieve us. Winning would be good for our team, and for our supporters too. We got used to them by often winning at Pierre-Fabre, but this year, we lost several times (three). We must return to them the daily support they give us, and also pay for our efforts.
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Does this roadblock job scare you?
Obviously. We are ambitious, but realistic at the same time. We want to win for lots of reasons. Because if you do it, and you get closer to the top six, inevitably, you move away from the red zone. Nobody wants to finish 13e. And that’s why, I hope it will be an additional Source of motivation for this meeting.
