MHSC – Monaco: “Nothing is certain with this group”, regrets Jean-Louis Gasset, the Montpellier coach

Jean-Louis Gasset n'a aucune certitude sur son groupe. Midi Libre – SYLVIE CAMBON

Avant Monaco, le coach de Montpellier a évoqué ses difficultés avec ses joueurs et l’avenir du club.

At 71, Jean-Louis Gasset is certainly experiencing one of his most difficult seasons as a coach. Because the bad results are affecting his club and if they continue with a drop to Ligue 2 as a result, “a lot of people could lose their jobs”.

This is the card that the Montpellier coach played with his players this week, as midfielder Rabby Nzingoula had confirmed a few moments earlier in a press conference. It is an understatement to say that the experienced MHSC coach is trying everything he has acquired in his career to revive his group. Between the carrot and the stick, the cuddle therapy and the shouting matches. Without finding long-term solutions for the moment, whether in the game system or the choice of players.

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A double face

“When you feel like you're holding something, the next week, you're not holding it anymore. I had the impression that at La Mosson, given the reactions against Brest, Lille, Nice, where we were always behind in the score and we had this revolt, I said that we've got it. When you play the match away, like in Lyon, you say that you're moving forward. I had that impression. And then, bang, bang…”, confirms the man in the cap following the defeat against Angers (1-3).

“There's no given with this group. You always have to be in it and be the shepherd and the dog at the same time, because they need that”, has understood well Jean-Louis Gasset. A double face that Michel Der Zakarian and Olivier Dall’Oglio also had to deal with…

Attentive to attitudes and behaviors

Without them either finding the complete solution to this roller coaster. An absence of certainties which even manages to destabilize the wise man from Hérault. “Every time you have the feeling of holding something, it escapes you again. We do one time yes, one time no. One time not bad. One time where we say that's it, it's good. And all of a sudden, bang. So we live from day to day. I'm going to get into their way”, he thinks.

Who is also faced with an uncertain transfer window until February 3. Not ideal for involving a group in search of confidence. “This period is very hard, I assure you because we have no certainty. We have no certainty about what can happen. So now, we are going to make the best possible team with the best possible and concerned players.”

As a result, against Monaco, Jean-Louis Gasset will be much more attentive to attitudes and behaviors. “Give it your all in every match. I want dignity. I want people at the end of the match to be dead and to have given their all.”

Despite the complicated situation, Jean-Louis Gasset will not give up, he expects the same from his players.
 

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