If we were bad tongues, we would give the Illacais no chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France, this Tuesday evening in Saint-Quentin. For what ? For the simple reason that the bees have multiplied their poor performance against formations within their reach far from their hive. They just won in Royan after the tie-break.
“It’s true,” admits Anisse Guéchou, who will not be traveling since her partner is expecting a happy event in the coming hours, “we are a bit two-faced. At home, we manage to play fairly complete and successful matches and away from home, we always have this problem of inconsistency. We do things very well like in Cambrai during a set and a half where we are really dominant and the slightest grain of sand that gets in the way makes us capsize like in Saint-Quentin and in Cambrai when we could have hoped better “.
Stay positive
How to explain this ambivalence? “I think it’s due to a lack of collective benchmarks. We have a little difficulty finding solutions outside when we don’t have our audience, our loved ones, this energy that people give us and allow us to find solutions. It’s now up to us to mature.” This was a bit like the theme of good resolutions to adopt for the new year.
Still, the coach prefers to stay positive, especially in a rewarding competition: “It’s very cool in the sense that this French Cup is a great challenge because if you win, there’s a good chance that you’ll play a club again of League A. It’s honorary and it certainly allows us to have a great party at home. And that would allow us to be confronted with big teams and to continue our process of progression and development. For us, our objective and our DNA is to provide experience and develop players in post-training.” It remains to be seen what face his team will present, which will be led by Romain Sellier, the coach of the training center.
The match
Saint-Quentin (League B) – Saint-Jean-d’Illac (League B), this Tuesday evening at 8 p.m., in Saint-Quentin.
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