“I told them that this Cannes team was going to be overmotivated,” growled Olivier Pantaloni, “it was up to us to seek qualification. » But once again, this FC Lorient did not have the necessary ingredients to get out of the predicted trap that constituted this round of 16, facing a Cannes N2 not quite like the others.
Same evils, same consequences!
Away, it’s no longer a surprise, the Merlus’ game is crumbling. On the other hand, even if it was a second team with eight changes compared to Metz (0-0), concern is growing in the face of the resilience of the ailments which animate their performances outside the Moustoir. Like a refrain: “What I criticized my players,” explained a coach visibly affected by this fifth setback of the season away from Moustoir, “was the start of the match – there were two strikes in the first half. time, we concede two goals, it reveals certain things – and the lack of aggressiveness in front of goal, and the efficiency that results from it. Understand, implicitly, a form of sufficiency that the people of Lorient have not yet erased. But they will not be able to do without it or risk seeing their hopes of recovery quickly disappear.
But, on Saturday, it is a new major trip to Dunkirk and a team of another dimension (3rd by a small margin) which now awaits Lorient in an obvious weak time: they have not won any of their three matches in 2025.
The technical sheet
Arbitrator : M. Tual.
Spectators : 5 200 environ.
BUTS. Lorient: Le Bris (36′); Cannes: Abbas (13′ and 22′).
Warnings. Lorient: James (55′), Genton (81′), Talbi (90 + 4).
FC LORIENT : Leroy – Silva (Kalulu 62′), Genton, Talbi, James – Makengo (Mvuka 72′) – Diarra (Katseris 8′), – Ponceau, Fadiga (Avom 62′), Le Bris – Soumano (Kroupi 72′).
Coach : Olivier Pantaloni.
AS CANNES : Vanni – Vinci, Fisher, Adderrahmane, Smith – Ndoye – Abbas (Gonçalves 76′), Hafidi, (cap), Ndiaye (Blanc 76′), Mambu (Trinker 72′) – Domingues.
Coach: Damien Ott
Senegal
