Nîmes Olympique: after the nightmare, it’s time to wake up

Adil Hermach (in orange), coach at the heart of the game. MIDI LIBRE – E. DZ.

Nîmes Olympique is 13th after 5 National days and the defeat in Concarneau (0-1) having finished with 11 Gardois against 9 Bretons.

It's a week of training like no other that began for the Crocos, Monday September 16. Because it's the week after. The week after the shame, the disillusionment, the “professional fault” according to Adil Hermach and his scorer Oussama Abdeldjelil who mentioned the term on Friday ; the 1-0 defeat in Concarneau having finished the match with 11 Gardois against 9 Bretons.

Vincent Marcel and… Adil Hermach scorers

After the nightmare, it was time to wake up, this Monday morning at the Bastide. Briefing in the locker room, jogging to get back on the right foot, warm-up, conservation exercise with small goals on half a field, 11-on-11 opposition on the whole field, and finally a 7-on-7 with only the losers from Friday (the others having participated in an internal opposition on Saturday with the reserve team): the two hours were well filled.

With a new feature, therefore, 11 against 11 from Monday, surely to change something after 3 championship matches without a win (one draw, two losses). Too bad the confrontation ended in a 0-0.

There were goals, however, on the 7/7, including a hat-trick from Marcel and a goal from Hermach, who participated in the entire session in the middle of his players, including Labonne and Camara who returned. “It was good that I was at the heart of the game, to better feel things and be able to advise them”, confided the coach.

Five players absent

Except the absentees: Amara and Bouaoune (both injured in the foot), Iafrate (adductors), remained in treatment; Diallo (ill) and Abdeldjelil (personal administrative reasons, excused for 48 hours). Delpech also had to stop training prematurely, with a painful ankle and foot. The goal is to calm all pain, physical and moral, by the reception of Versailles, Friday September 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Antonins.

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