Meriame Terchoun, a 29-year-old Swiss international, has it bad. She didn’t really like Timothé Cognat’s reflection, accusing his team of having damaged the pitch at the Stade de Genève, during the Switzerland-France match, brilliantly won by our women’s “Nati” (2-1) .
“Ah so it’s our fault (the pitch) if you didn’t take a point. This excuse is a bit easy I think, the pitch was already rotten before and our team still won two days ago,” she wrote on an Instagram story.
At the end of the meeting between Servette and Lucerne (2-2) last Thursday, Timothé Cognat responded to an interview on the TV channel blue Sport. Not at all happy to have lost two points against the Lucernois, he explained this poor performance by the state of the pitch. And she was… but for both teams.
The 26-year-old French midfielder said: “We play on a pitch, it’s catastrophic. We are not put in conditions… We bring teams in two days before a match. It has nothing to do with it, but it’s frustrating. We see that on the pitch it’s difficult to make plays.”
And there, he refers to the Switzerland-France match, since the girls played in Geneva the previous Tuesday. How to interpret this rant? Everyone will have their opinion. But this outing has an element of truth (the lawn was terrible), and an element of awkwardness. After a bad match, it’s never a good idea to blame someone else.
And especially not on the Swiss team, which dominated France. Which hadn’t happened to him for 22 years.
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