Giovanni, can you tell us about your match?
There is this goal, of course. But I cannot be satisfied with it. Because as everyone has seen, it is not the best game I have made. It even remains across my throat.
Because of that failed first half?
The first half hour especially. I’m clearly making a bad start. I miss things and then it all comes together. I have bad feelings and nothing is right. I realize it of course and it tenses me. This first half hour, it is individually disastrous.
Fortunately, there was this goal …
Yes, this goal relieved me a little. Then I did some simpler things. And then it got a little better. But there was this cardboard box that made me have to deal with it. In the second half, I saw the referee put his hand in his pocket. I was a little scared. That’s why the coach made the right decision to take me out, because at my post, I have to have a minimum of aggression.
“The coach asked us to take risks”
Tell us about this goal …
Kenny gets the ball full axis. And I don’t know why, I feel that if he shoots, the ball will come back to me. Kenny hits a super shot and the goalie releases it. I won’t hide from you that, given the confidence I had, I hesitated between head and foot. Finally, I put the head and I scored. It did me good, but it doesn’t erase my disastrous first half hour. I am very demanding of myself. Since Saturday, it’s in my head.
It’s unusual to see a defensive midfielder dive into the box like this …
On that match, the coach asked Kenny and I to take a little more risk because we were at home. We had to add this little thing to bring people to the opposing camp. It functioned. Kenny shoots and I’m following.
Did you score a lot as a youngster?
I scored goals, but mostly on set pieces as I was shooting free kicks and penalties.
“The last four goals scored by players from the training center”
Are you going to ask Amine Bassi to leave you some…
(Smile) No, I’m not going to do that. He shoots them really well, it’s his specialty, it’s his job. Amine is very important to us. Moreover, he scored against Dunkirk. So the last four goals were scored by players from the training center. We are here !
How does this victory against Dunkirk change?
It’s the first at home for nine months. She does a lot of good. At the same time, it proves that football is weird. The first five to six games, the content was not bad, but the results were not necessarily there. It was frustrating. This is our worst game but there is victory at the end. Like what, you have to know how to win matches, even if it is not flamboyant.
Place in Grenoble …
It’s a very important game. In the event of a positive result, we can quickly switch to another championship. It’s up to us not to slack off and go for the three points. It’s a championship in which you don’t have to calculate. It is very close and the matches are played on details. If we manage to follow through against Grenoble and Châteauroux at home, that can change things. We’re not going to play crazy and look at the top of the rankings, but we have to be ambitious.
