Pau FC – Grenoble: Usaï Reacts to Loss & Youth Errors

Nicolas Usaï

“There is anger, yes, yes, yes. So not on the scenario of the match: we must win, we must kill the match, I’m disappointed! But I’m angry because there are players, who I’m not going to name, who sulk because this, because that. In short, I will settle accounts with the players concerned…

Nicolas Usaï

“There is anger, yes, yes, yes. So not on the scenario of the match: we must win, we must kill the match, I’m disappointed! But I’m angry because there are players, who I’m not going to name, who sulk because this, because that. In short, I will settle accounts with the players concerned in due time. But I am very angry, very angry. It’s a question of energy, something irrational. When we reverse the energies, we are punished. And the posts instead of going in, they don’t go in.

It’s irrational, there is nothing tactical or strategic there. You have to make sure you have the necessary mindset to get results at 18. And that’s important. It’s a young group, there’s definitely some learning to do. But you don’t have to be stupid, you don’t have to be stupid. Because when you’re a young idiot, you stay stupid your whole life. There is the fear of winning, this kind of anxiety of going backwards when the idea is not that, it is to continue to use the transitions, to have control.

We’re falling apart, but it’s not the first time. Against Clermont we won but it’s the same thing in the last 10 minutes. Against Amiens, it’s the same, against Rodez it’s the same and there again. You have to learn from your mistakes but you can’t make them every week. So yes, I’m disappointed…”

Steve Beusnard’s reaction

Steve Beusnard’s reaction

“Anger is really the feeling that animated us in the locker room. Frankly, it’s one match too many. It’s one match too many. We say to ourselves every time ‘damn, we have to win it, we have to win it’ and in the end it’s always the same. So there’s a lot of anger. We lack maturity at certain moments, which we manage to manage better when we’re in front. We can’t do it, I have the impression that we’re going backwards more easily.

Afterwards, these are details on which we must be more rigorous at crucial moments of the match. Be smarter too, know how to delay, demonstrate experience in breaking the rhythm when it needs to be broken. We can’t take (goals) like that. For me, what we did this evening is forbidden and we will have to get back to work and correct all that.

The coach is angry, that’s understandable. He is at least as much as we are. It makes sense, everyone is tonight. We will have to digest and get back to work.”

Tom Pouilly’s reaction

Tom Pouilly

“By leading 2-0 we think that we have almost done the hardest part. We didn’t stop playing. Their first goal hurt us but in itself, we were still leading. These are always details… Here we must easily win the match. They make two dangerous strikes, two beautiful goals. It’s true that it’s frustrating knowing that we had the victory in our hands. At 2-1 we start to suffer, but that’s when we have to show our character, that we can keep a score. Once again we didn’t do it.

The coach is disappointed and angry like us because he knows that we work well every day and that we cannot take the 3 points at home. It’s frustrating, I understand his frustration. I don’t think we’re afraid but we need to manage situations better. We drew when we should win, already to show that we are at home and to get back into the championship. Because if we are ambitious we have to win these matches.”

Franck Rizzetto’s reaction