[MHSC-SB29] Jean-Louis Gasset: “It was the trigger, we had no right to fail”

The MHSC coach has never spoken to Philippe Sers after a meeting since taking office. Nor even its players for that matter. For his first favored by a finally positive outcome, he had very strong words which made us feel the union forged ahead of this match defined as a “hinge” at the end of his interview.

Ph. Sers : Jean-Louis, I know you are lucid enough not to shy away from the pleasure of the moment because frankly, it comes at just the right time…!

J.-L. Gasset: Exactly, that was the trigger. I've been waiting for it since I arrived three weeks ago, we had two very poor matches where we didn't deserve much. Tonight, the 50th anniversary, the public who are with us and… We had no right to miss each other. Laurent (Nicollin) spoke out during the week when he felt attacked, people were attacking his players too so we used it as leverage to say: “We have to give everything!” and from the start of the match against a very good team who are doing wonders in Europe but who are not expecting a match like that from us. We had to take it up a notch at that level.

Ph. Sers : In any case there is a slider that jumps out at the most discerning technician to the most layman, it is that all the jerseys are wet this evening and that is a slider of the commitment of the players which explains a lot of things !

J.-L. Gasset: So that there is a return to the competition, because if we had been hanging on this evening we would have been left behind, now we are getting back together; we are not going to uncork the champagne but if we are in this state of mind, that we recover our wounded and those suspended and that the little ones from the Center… (he changes his mind and raises his voice) …than the FRAMEWORKS! Let the EXECUTIVES ASSUME as they did this evening, Lecomte was excellent, Ferri was an example and Khazri scored. A club goes through these executives, otherwise it's a bad atmosphere, people look askance at each other… We had to put all that back plus the physical plus the tactics because we had a new player behind who was arriving and who lacked rhythm and it was the pivotal match.

Ph. Sers : Everything is said, thank you Jean-Louis.

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