“We must not shout Cocorico,” warns Gasset

Montpellier's victory over Brest, the second of the season, almost completely satisfied new coach Jean-Louis Gasset, inducted onto the Montpellier bench on October 22. “This victory is well placed because we are in a historic week (the club’s 50th anniversary, Editor’s note). In the rankings, it helps us move forward a little, but we must not shout “cocorico”declared Jean-Louis Gasset.

“The public responded for this anniversary and the players gave everything. Sometimes clumsily, we could have made the match easier because we had the ball 3-0 then 3-1. But that’s how it is, when we are in a period like that, we suffer at all levels”he clarified shortly after this victory.

“The leaders took power. I told them when I arrived, we need to have a framework, we need to have players to rely on. There were some who were a little demobilized, there were others who were physically a little flat”added the Montpellier coach. This victory also relieves President Laurent Nicollin, according to Gasset. “He was still attacked, I think violently. He even needed to feel a response from his players, and this evening, he saw the state of mind, not the footballing quality, that can always be discussed, but at least the state of mind of the Strawberry ».