The people of Nice cannot do it. Halfway through this first phase of the Europa League, the OGCN is navigating the depths of the ranking, with only two small points gleaned in four matches. Thursday evening again, at home against Twente, Franck Haise’s players did not take things the right way, trailing 2-0 at the hour mark then reduced to 10 following the exclusion (very severe) by Sofiane Diop.
Fortunately, the revolt started by Jérémie Boga just before found continuity, rewarded by the equalizer from Mohamed-Ali Cho two minutes from the end, on a good serve from Jonathan Clauss. A draw (2-2) that can be analyzed in two ways, as Franck Haise admitted after the match.
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“We can say that we managed to be resilient despite the difficulties, to achieve this 2-2, which was unlikely at one time. But we didn’t do things together for a while, and when you don’t do things together against this type of opponent, you pay the consequences,” explained the coach at a press conference.
The former boss of RC Lens had decided for this meeting to rotate his squad at kick-off. It is clear that things went much better when the captains Clauss, Boga, Bouanani and Guessand entered during the second half.
The next two “decisive” matches
“It’s me who makes the choices, with the knowledge that I have, which is not what you obviously have,” replied the coach on this point. Which doesn’t stop coaches from making mistakes. But I see my group, the athletic difficulties of some. I lost two players (Abdemonem and Mendy) to injury yesterday (Wednesday), it changed the team at the last moment. But we are together, we make mistakes together, good things together (…). I will remember the bad and the good. »
Only 31st out of 36 after four days, the Niçois will have to really accelerate if they want to grab a place in the 24 and qualify for the play-offs. “It’s clear that to hope to continue in this competition, we have the two matches before the break which will be decisive,” admitted Haise. Nice will host Glasgow Rangers on November 28, before going to Brussels to challenge Union Saint-Gilloise.
