Le Mans – Nancy
This Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Dunkirk, Concarneau, Le Mans. The calendar has reserved for Benoît Pedretti a copious start to the matter for his taking office on the Nancy bench, with a triptych of opponents from the first part of the table, who have some ambitions in this championship. The trip to the North was well managed with a victory that ended a long series of failures (2-3). We know what happened to the reception of the Bretons on Monday (shortened when Nancy was down 1-0 at half-time due to fog and rescheduled for mid-March). From now on, place for a new trip for the trainer and his troop, with this visit in the Sarthe against one of the big teams of the division. “It’s one of the big names in the National,” agrees Lenny Nangis. “These are the kind of games we need to gauge ourselves and see what we are capable of”.
“Le Mans is physically tough”
As on the Côte d’Opale, the Nancy should indeed be put to the test once again against Manceaux who have the best attack in the championship, in which Armand Gnanduillet shines with his 10 pawns which make him the best trigger of the division.
“It’s a team that works very well and remains on a good draw at Red Star and a victory against Concarneau”, underlines Benoît Pedretti. “It’s physically strong, it’s a big piece”, continues the Nancy coach, who had to delegate the short preparation for this meeting to his deputy José Martinez, because he had lessons on the facilities of Paris FC this week in in view of obtaining his diploma from the BEPF.
“Correct mistakes that cost us goals”
But the staff did what was necessary to manage this absence, with filmed sessions on which the coach was able to form his opinion. “The state of mind was good and that’s the most important thing,” retains the former international midfielder. For him as for his players, the data was in any case rather clear after these 135 minutes and a few that he directed: “It will be a question of confirming what we have done well and trying to improve the little details that prevented us from scoring, or correcting the little mistakes that cost us goals”, announces “coach Ben”.
Concretely ; show the same drive and the same accuracy on the offensive level as what was done in Dunkirk and during the start of the match against the Concarnois. While tightening the bolts behind to meet the major challenge that will be offered by the Manceaux. A victory would allow the Nancy to give themselves air at the bottom of the classification and, perhaps, to extricate themselves from the relegation zone.
For this mission, Benoît Pedretti will be able to count on the two recruits who arrived in the winter transfer window (Dacosta and Lefebvre), but not on Lucas Deaux, forced to rest after being operated on Tuesday for his broken nose which forced him to forfeit Monday for the arrival of Concarneau. But the technician recovers a soldier in the midfield, in the person of Alexandre Cropanese, recovered from his sprained knee contracted in early January against Martigues.
