Despite his expulsion, Jean-Louis Gasset was smiling this Sunday, proud to see his men fighting until the end to snatch a point from LOSC (2-2).
Red lantern of the championship, Montpellier HSC defied the predictions by neutralizing LOSC (2-2) as part of the fourteenth day of Ligue 1 McDonald’s. The men of Jean-Louis Gasset equalized twice in added time, first during the first act (Sylla, 45+2′) then in the last minutes of the match (Nordin, 90+4′). At the final whistle, the Montpellier technician underlined the importance of the point taken by his men: “We found La Paillade, between the public, the revolt, the injustice, we wanted to get a point. It’s small, it’s not a lot, we have eight, but facing an opponent like that, who is in the ten best teams in Europe, who can beat Real, who will win at Atlético or who holds a head to Juve, we knew it would be a difficult match and that we had to go into commando mode”he congratulates himself.
The technician, successor to Michel Der Zakarian in Hérault, continues his analysis: “We started timidly, in the first half, we respected them, but without aggression, with a lack of good recovery. But in the second half, we played a crazy match. Not everything is extraordinary, I admit, but in the end, we equalize and take a point. I think that in the game, we didn’t concede many chances, and that the best opportunity was ours. It’s Tamari who starts from the middle, who crosses, who plays perfectly by dropping the goal, making a fake shot, and who puts on the bar because there’s a little one, I saw him again there, false rebound before, but it’s the best action of the match and it’s the clearest opportunity »he says in a post-match press conference.
A little later, as he was about to leave, Arnaud Nordin was caught by the local media. He then explained his goal to us, step by step: “On goal, things are going very quickly. It’s about a mess. I manage to control her with my chest and I finish. At the beginning, I celebrate, but then there is the VAR who intervenes and checks everything that happened, up to 30 minutes before I think (laughing). He thinks there is hand, then there is offside. I don’t put my hand in and there is no offside. I’m very happy to have equalized. We played it until the end. We believed in it and it worked well. It was a complicated match. We knew it, but Lille had a lot of the ball and we defended. We tried to play on the counter-attack”he confided this Sunday, in the bowels of the Stade de la Mosson.
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