Nantes coach Antoine Kombouaré Thursday night in Toulouse. – Frédéric Scheiber / AFP
- Nantes had more control over Thursday night’s meeting in Toulouse than the score (1-2) suggests.
- If some players deplored insufficient realism, Antoine Kombouaré was almost satisfied not to have ensured the maintenance in Ligue 1 before the return match on Sunday evening.
Louza, Appiah, Coulibaly… On several occasions, the people of Nantes had the opportunity to drive a last nail into the coffin of Toulouse illusions, this Thursday in Toulouse. Stronger than the third in Ligue 2 in all sectors, the 18th in Ligue 1, however, have only one head start before the return match, Sunday at La Beaujoire (1-2). The maintenance seems to be on very good track, but the road could have been cleared even before leaving the island of Ramier.
“We are missing a small goal, we had the opportunities to put it”, regretted hot defender Nicolas Pallois on Canal +. Barely later, Randal Kolo Muani adopted a similar speech in the press room. “We could score more and not concede that goal,” lamented the author of the second Nantes achievement (22nd), four minutes after Deiver Machado’s equalizer.
[📺 RÉSUMÉ VIDÉO] 🇫🇷 L1 / L2 dams
💥 Blas and Kolo Muani made the difference in the first act for Nantes (1-2)!
☄ The Machado missile insufficient for the TFC
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Faced with the seventh defense of L2, static like a line of table football players, the offensives of Antoine Kombouaré, Ludovic Blas (first scorer), Moses Simon and Kolo Muani in the lead were indeed feasted. “We have a strong point, we are going very quickly in front, resumes the international Espoirs, deprived of Euro with the Bleuets (like Alban Lafont) because of this extended season. We saw that they were a little slow behind, we had worked on them. “
A more dangerous TFC on Sunday?
Mission successful therefore. But not enough to take away all hope of a “remountada” in Toulouse on Sunday. Kombouaré would be almost delighted. “Scoring two goals is already good, winning 2-1 is a very good thing,” asserts the technician from Nantes, not unhappy to have come to beat one of his many former teams. That nevertheless puts us on guard. If we had won more widely, we might have relaxed. We expect a Toulouse reaction on Sunday. “
If defensive fragility is a recurring problem for TFC this season, it is difficult to imagine that these attackers, Amine Adli in the lead, are also not very dangerous two games in a row. In the event of a purple alarm clock, the people of Nantes could bite their fingers. Except the biggest haters of Waldemar Kita, of course.