Toulouse. Jef Lettens: “There are other ways to lose…”
If the Toulouse have long held the high at Wisla Plock, last night, the Toulouse goalkeeper did not really taste the outcome of the match won by the Poles (24-30).
Beaten at home by Plock (24-30), Toulouse will have held forty minutes before cracking under the battering of the Poles last night. “We made too many mistakes” first lamented Gonçalo Vieira after this third defeat in four European League games. The Lusitanian left-back of the Fenix notably pointed out the “too many lost balls (Editor’s note, 16)”, practically all occupied in the wake by the Wisla. “It’s a team that it’s very difficult to come back to when you are three or four goals behind,” added Vieira. “Of course it’s stronger than us on paper but we all wanted to win this match”, he then replied when it was suggested to him that it was rather against the Slovaks of Presov or the Swiss of Winterthur. that their place in the first four would be played out, synonymous with qualifying for the round of 16.
Next Tuesday against Presov
“We must not forget that we will have a lot more pressure in these matches,” also said Jef Lettens. “Annoyed”, the Toulouse goalkeeper, he did not mince words by evoking “a mess”. “We lost this match all alone by making too many bad choices” he then blurted out, recalling the two balls lost stupidly on two possessions which could have offered two goals in advance to his team at the start of the second half (17 -16, 34e). The beginning of the end for Toulouse who ten minutes later were five goals behind. “There are other ways to lose. I’m a little disgusted because we always make the same mistakes, we keep telling ourselves that we are going to correct them and nothing happens” regrets Lettens again. “He must start to learn the lessons because it is useless to fight a whole season to win Europe if it is to spoil everything like that”, finally concluded the Belgian international. We can already guess in what state of mind the last Toulouse rampart should be for the reception of Presov next Tuesday.