SM Caen suffered its fifth defeat of the season in eight days of Ligue 2, this Saturday October 5, against Lorient (1-2). Find the post-match reactions of the Caen players.
Valentin Henry (right side of SM Caen): “The scenario does not help us accept this defeat. We were keen to put in a good performance at home, we wanted to redeem ourselves from the defeat at Guingamp (3-1). We put what we could put in at the moment, commitment. In the second half, we felt that we were in a good phase since we had managed to rebalance the game after having suffered in the first. The goal comes at a fateful moment in the match, it’s a shame but it reflects a little of the problems we have at the moment. There are not 36,000 solutions, we are going to question ourselves and we have a break for that. We will work, each individual will try to move forward to improve our collective. Right now, that’s what’s wrong.
Lorient has high quality players, who have experienced the high level. We faced a very, very good team who played their possession game against us and demonstrated a technical base superior to ours. We had the ball less often, we were less successful in combining. This is why the collective performance with the ball was less efficient. We were more of a transition game, proof of which is in our goal. I am convinced that in other home matches, we will have the solution and we will see interesting phases of play again.
But today, we have to stay focused on ourselves. We will regularly have good opponents against us. We have to be able to keep a score, even against good teams. It wasn’t easy this Saturday, I think we were harmless and too loose in our lines. We didn’t have enough presence in both areas and we paid for it. We need to resolve our collective concerns and everyone needs to raise their individual level. Me first, we are not up to the start of the season.
There are spirals in the season where nothing goes in the right direction but we also know that a season is long. That other teams will make mistakes to allow us to take the three points. Today it’s on us but mistakes are part of football otherwise we wouldn’t score goals. Now it’s how do we react to that? What was the spirit behind that?
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The defeat hurts your head because we will find ourselves alone for 15 days in training, which will be long. This will perhaps also allow us to get off on the right foot and find freshness, that’s what we hope because today we need points.
It’s a shame to find ourselves in this emergency situation again as we come out of a positive spiral of two victories. We got back into the swing of things with these two defeats, we saw that the supporters were not happy. The first actors are us and seeing the faces in the locker room, we are not satisfied either. We don’t have those aspirations, we don’t want to propose what we proposed this evening. But sometimes you make do with what you have and today, that’s all we had. Lorient was superior to us. »
Najim: “The truce will do us good, it will put our minds back in place”
Ilyes Najim (SM Caen winger): “We had strong moments and weak moments like every match. We still have to adjust certain things, which we will put in place in training to come back stronger. It’s always frustrating. There is a questioning that we all must have.. We will continue to work, remaining confident, united and united.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been to Ornano, it’s always a pleasure to see him again as well as the public. I’m happy with it, despite the defeat. I always work to please the supporters. I wanted to be the savior, to make an impression, but I also had a lot of pressure not to do badly. I thought I could score on my rush but at the last moment, I mispositioned my support for the shot. So she went over the bar. It’s the story of a match, of a career, we work and we never stop.
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Stade Malherbe has not recovered in a hurry, we must keep a cool head. We will continue to work, we remain confident and united, there is no problem. »
