‘I see confidence on the pitch’: Takeaways from Adi Hütter’s press conference ahead of Nantes v Monaco

The perfect start to the season

“We started the season well (smiles). I’m happy after our two wins but Nantes are waiting for us on Friday. It will be a new challenge. What satisfies me most at the moment? We scored three goals and we dominated the whole match against Strasbourg. We played at 100%. We didn’t concede a goal and that was also important. We pressed well. We are getting closer to the style that I want us to put in place. We saw our principles of play and confidence on the pitch.”

Progress to be made

“There are still a lot of things we can improve. We can improve in pressing and our defensive substitutions. We can be better with the ball even if it was at a very high level on Sunday. The spectators, the president and the players were happy after our victory against Strasbourg. There were 10,000 spectators in the stadium and a great energy. You have to deserve victories. You have to be hungry and stay focused.”

The game in Nantes

“Their start to the season is a little different from ours (they lost to Toulouse 1-2, then to Lille 0-2, editor’s note). We have six points in hand but we expect to suffer. level of the ranking, we see that Lens is currently at the bottom of the table. We have only played two days. We know that it is very difficult to play in Nantes, given their public. We want to stay at the top of the ranking but “It won’t be easy. They’ll try to stay compact and evolve on the counter-attack. We’ll have to press hard and take points if we want to stay at the top of the standings. We’ll also have to be very vigilant. on set pieces.”

“Salisu is not ready yet”

The squad available for the match at La Beaujoire

“Eliesse (Ben Seghir) couldn’t play against Strasbourg (he stayed on the bench) and he was a bit angry and frustrated. As you can imagine, he’s a young player and he would like to play all the matches. He felt discomfort (in the thigh) before the warm-up against Strasbourg when I wanted to use him. He still has a few weeks of absence. Breel Embolo (knee) and Edan Diop (foot) will not be not there either. Mohammed Salisu trained with us this week, he had a good stage. He is on the right path but he is not ready yet.”

Potential recruits

“I’m really happy with the team I have at my disposal. But everyone saw that we had two scorers with Wissam (Ben Yedder) and Myron (Boadu). Recruit up front? That’s the subject of the moment and we stay attentive, but we have to stay calm too. At the moment, we score and we don’t concede goals. Everything is fine even if injuries can happen.”