“The players will want to win their place”, the FCN and Kombouaré facing the waltz of the coaches
Another new one! After Pascal Dupraz’s AS Saint-Etienne, it’s now Monaco’s turn. Because this Sunday, FC Nantes will face another team with a new coach at its head: the Belgian Philippe Clément. Not easy to navigate for Nantes, when it comes to analyzing the tactics and the game of his opponent. If a match is not played on the sidelines, its preparation can be turned upside down with the arrival of a new coach.
Even if it is difficult to say that the Monegasques were doing badly, to the point of seeing Niko Kovac sacked, the change of coach can create a click in the locker room. Certainly the effect of the management of the Principality club. And Antoine Kombouaré, the FCN coach, knows it well. “Who says change of coach, says new speech, can be a new tactical scheme. With a different motivation from the players, who will want to win their place ”. So, good or bad time to face them? “On an already played Saint-Etienne who had changed coach. But we will first focus on us. Change of coach or not, we need points, ”said Nantes defender Nicolas Pallois.
“The obligation to win”
If Nantes know their strengths, those of AS Monaco remain, however, as well as complexes to analyze from now on. But the Nantes coach turned to his Monegasque counterpart. “I watched Philippe Clément’s first interviews, as well as a few matches when he was in Bruges. He’s a coach who wants to be dominant. He wants to take the game for himself ”. A result is expected on the side of the management of ASM, and this scenario does not displease the Kanak coach. “I tell myself that they come here with the obligation to win,” he says, a bit malicious.