3-3
Returned, not returned? The question was on many lips this Friday evening after the final whistle. A few minutes after the end of the meeting, QRM coach, David Carré, appeared in the press room with his laptop in his hand and his face closed. Supporting screenshot, with questionable quality, the Normandy coach affirmed that the ball had not entirely crossed the line on Nassim Titebah's magnificent shot which brought the last goal of the game.
Like Geoffrey Hrust's strike in the 1966 World Cup final between England and Germany, no one will really know if the goal was valid. “I am unable to know if the ball went in or not,” admits DFCO coach, Baptiste Ridira. “But we had the merit of showing self-sacrifice and solidarity,” says the Côte-d'Orien coach, whose troops were able to make up two goals just before the break. Before snatching a point in the final minutes of the game.
Lack of energy
“We had great technical poverty, we surrendered a lot of balls and we have the feeling that we were sad in our production. In the second half, we were outclassed in intensity,” analyzes the technician. “What I remember from this match is that we are going through complicated times in terms of the squad. We have players who are sick, others injured and suspended,” lists Baptiste Ridira, the flu having in fact entered the Dijon group this week. “We also had a player ( Cédric Makutungu ) who has experienced an important event in their life ( paternity ) and four who cut out this week because they were ill,” breathes the Burgundian coach. “Plus others that are in incubation. I think we lacked energy and we didn't have the physical weapons to compete with this team. »
-Better in shape and author of a very good collective performance, QRM was able to rely on a hat-trick from Tshipamba. But also on a Dali-Amar who demonstrated all his qualities – particularly technical – to undermine the Dijon bloc, which will now benefit from two weeks to prepare for the reception at Le Mans – on Saturday February 8 (6 p.m.) -, Côte-d'Oriens being exempt on the next day.
Good news for this DFCO who needs to perk up and eradicate the flu from his locker room.
