On this twelfth day of Ligue 1, Monaco dominated Brest and won 3-2 thanks to a double from Maghnès Akliouche and a goal from Aleksandr Golovin. The Brestois reduced the gap on a corner converted by Abdallah Sima then on a strike from Ludovic Ajorque but they lost their leader Pierre Lees-Melou, out through injury, four days before their trip to Barcelona in the Champions League. A hard blow for the Breton club.
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Between the result and Lees-Melou's possible injury, “It's a nightmare evening.”lamented Eric Roy, the coach of Brest, beaten in Monaco by 3 goals to 2 on November 22, 2024 and also himself excluded by the referee.
“We were too soft in the first 20 minutes”analyzed Roy, who regrets “the annoying habit of starting the match at 2-0″.
“If in addition, you have to score three goals in Monaco to bring home a point, it becomes a mission impossible“, he estimated while Brest “showed his true colors in the second half“.
“We can't do it for 90 minutes, that's the problemhe added. We come out with a lot of frustration. It’s not a good feeling.”
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With 13 points, his team must “look back for the next few weeks“, he warned, because the balance sheet “is not satisfactory“. “We will have to fight, perhaps to maintain it. There’s nothing dishonorable about it.”
Brest “can't engage”. “It didn't come down to much at one point in the Nice match (0-1), a see-saw match. If we won, we were 5th, we lost it. Since then, it's been going on and on.“
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Concerning his exclusion (67th), he assured that he had been correct with the referee. “Other than saying the fault is in the direction, I said nothing. Throwing a cap is punishable. It's the news of the evening“.
On the other hand, Roy fears for Pierre Lees-Melou, who came out in the first half. “It doesn't smell very good, he said. He took a knee hit, just above his plate (on the right fibula, editor's note). The doctor seemed worried. Between the result and this injury (…), it's a nightmare evening.”
Brest plays again on Tuesday in Barcelona, “a small team and we will try not to have too many superiority complexes“, he quipped.
