Antoine Kombouaré during Nantes – OL (Photo by Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP)
Disappointed by the defeat on Sunday at Décines, Antoine Kombouaré regretted that his players did not take more risks. Because Nantes had the chances against OL, but came across a very good Lucas Perri.
He started the 100th confrontation between OL and FC Nantes in a pre-match conference on Friday. Sunday evening, Antoine Kombouare could not blame the refereeing to explain the defeat of his team. Quite a good player for the occasion, the Nantes coach above all regretted the lack of enthusiasm of his team to make OL doubt even more. Because even if the score of 2-0 for the Lyonnais seems deserved, the Canaries had the opportunities.
Either to open the score for Moses Simon (14th), or to restart in the second half. Only, they came across a Lucas Perri more and more confident and that made the difference for Kombouare. “We can do a lot better with the ball. We had put something in place to play, to make ourselves available, but we weren’t able to do it. However, we had as many shots on target as them, but Lucas Perri has a big game.”
“If we don’t have ambition in the game, we spend our time defending”
In the goalkeeper duel which took place with Alban Lafontthe Lyon goalkeeper emerged victorious by keeping his clean sheet. His Nantes counterpart tried to postpone the deadline, but theOL a “was super effective, like the goal, on a harmless corner. I didn’t see it coming.” Neither did his players and Nicolas Tagliafico’s goal did not necessarily push Nantes to react too much, which Kanak regretted. “At the top level, if we don’t have ambition, we spend our time defending and that exhausts us. At the back, it’s more complicated.” With two points taken between the two breaks, Johann’s teammates Lepenant are marking time and have fallen back to 10th place.
