Table tennis | Pro B gentlemen. Nathanaël Molin (Metz TT): “I’m worried”

Nathanaël Molin, what is your analysis of the defeat against Tours (3-1), Friday night at the Saint-Symphorien complex?

“We don’t have the level, that’s all … For the moment, I have only one player who has the level (Esteban Dorr) , the others don’t have it (Chen Diogo and Florent Bourrassaud). So we will have to find solutions so that they start to have the level. “

What does it go through?

“When hot, I don’t know, we’ll have to analyze cold. Maybe I’m a little too nice in my management, we’re going to get tough. “

You performed a bad operation, in terms of the classification …

” It’s bad. The contents of the matches were not good, except one. I have a player above the rest, for sure, so I would put Esteban aside. But it’s bad accounting and it’s bad in the performances, so there is nothing to be learned from this game. “

What bothers you the most?

“It’s because we don’t have the level. It is not necessarily in the behavior for Flo, for whom it is more technical. He commits too many mistakes: he puts the opponent back into play when he succeeds in making a shift, when he manages to trap him. It’s too sweet. We have to manage to develop that, we’ve been talking about it for a long time and trying to find it. There was a little click in this area last season, but it has always been a weak point. “

“It is especially in the content that we are far away”

What about your leader, Chen Diogo?

“His reaction against Tours is completely immature. He loses the first game and puts two sets to recover. So start cheering in the third against a player who was undefeated so far and who has been World Top 50 for fifteen years (Daniel Gorak ), it seems complicated. These are the faults of having a young team, it can go into a spin behind. This is somewhat our case at the moment. “

Do you have any cause for hope or are you really worried about the rest of the championship?

” I’m worried. After that, we are not dead either, it was only the fifth game and we have eighteen in total to play. We are not last. “

You still sound the alarm …

“It is especially in the content that we are far. If still we had encouraging defeats, but, there, the content is weak. There is only one player who really has the level, I think it is even him who will save us. But, for the moment, Diogo shows a low level of Pro B and Flo, it is not the level of Pro B. ”

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