“We have not yet found our cruising speed,” said Laurent Combarel

A match that promises. This Friday at the beginning of the evening (6 p.m.), Villefranche actually receives Le Mans on the occasion of the 18th day of National. A meeting that could allow the fourteenth to chain a second success of rank and to extricate from the slippery ground on which he has been since the start of the 2024/2025 exercise. “It is an almost permanent adaptation. Those who put my foot to the stirrup have always done with workforce they had available. But in this new championship which has become more complicated and professional, we must be Pragmatic when we are a club like Villefranche. Last, and with our means, we have to adapt. Combarel during an interview with the official website of the French Football Federation (FFF).

And the youngest coach of the third tricolor division is not disturbed by the age difference, he who is younger than one of his executives (Idrissa Ba). “The experiences I have had in the past had already confronted me with the question of age difference with players. You have to take support by showing competence and rigor. I am young, but All the staff is in fact! A club culture that makes the players that we choose or decide to extend are in a family and respectful state of mind. 33 years old.

A return phase that promises to be boiling

At the dawn of the return phase, the Caladois club left to snatch its first victory of the season outside against QRM (0-1). “I hope that the victory in QRM will serve for the future. We are in a period when in addition to this victory, there are changes in the workforce. We had built it quickly, in the last moments of the transfer window. We wanted it enough to give way to young people, “he explains. “But we realized that it did not take it right away, some were more in trouble than expected, we had to readjustments. The first victory outside is done. If we arrive at Finalizing the current transfer window, we should know a more interesting second part of the season.

And the tigers will have to have a quiet head before the last day of National. The FCVB will actually be the exempted match training. “The consequence of being free on the last day is easy to read: you have to stay before. Everyone said that this championship would be easier this season with only two descents, but the density and quality of the teams are a notch Above, and we have not yet found our cruising speed. A victory against Le Mans, seventh, will be a good start in these new goals.