Traveling to Reims on Sunday (3 p.m.), Monaco must “Go back to the basics of the game” according to his coach Niko Kovac, after his defeat in Brest (0-2) last Sunday and his draw against PSV Eindhoven (0-0) in the Europa League on Thursday.

Only 10th in L1, ASM lives a course “Very different from last season”. “I spend my nights thinking about the reasons for this difference, the Croatian explained at a press conference on Saturday. We never fully find them, but I think we lack the light. Everything we do seems complicated. Last year, everything was done automatically. A player who questions himself too much hangs and plays in the restraint. My team is blocked by its head. “

To deal with it, the technician is counting on a change in the behavior of his players: “Every time you think you have to do something special, everything gets complicated and you add more. What makes it possible to gain confidence is to play simple, to make the balls easy, not to complicate and to win the duels. “

“Last year, we were the hunter, today, being hunted is different, a Kovac observation. Many young players are discovering it. Attitude and passion are the minimum to be given on a pitch. We did not do it against Brest or against Eindhoven. My players have to understand that they have to show it in every game. Not once a week, or even every two weeks. “