At a press conference, the vice-captain of the MHSC made his assessment of the start of 2022:

“I don’t think we’ve had any trouble since the restart, we saw it with the victory in the Coupe de France. We were in good shape despite a match on January 2. It was up to me, but If we had been able to continue without the Troyes report, it would have been different, but we’ll never know. In any case, that prevented us from linking up the matches and maintaining our positive dynamic. Playing every 3 days doesn’t is not easy, especially for the recovery, but it’s not an excuse, we should have done better. We remain on two consecutive defeats, I hope to stop this negative series.

And to stop this negative streak, it’s AS Monaco that comes to the Stade de la Mosson. In the first leg, the players from the Principality did not give our Pailladins the slightest chance. Jordan Ferri was suspended during this meeting:

“All the defeats remain in the throat, even the two that we have just suffered. The first leg, to have looked at it with an outside eye, we did not do things together, especially on their first goal where they come out from behind, each of us was coming out one after the other instead of blocking it in. That’s something we erased in later games with a tight block and defending going forward. who were our strength at the end of the year, we recovered the ball higher and we imposed strong moments on the opponent. This match in Monaco had helped us a lot for the future. Today, they changed coach, even if I did not have the opportunity to see them play, I imagine that there are changes, we will see what he will offer us in this second leg.