Nîmes Olympique: for the Crocos, it would be good to conclude

Titulaire depuis 3 matches (suspendu à Villefranche), Waly Diouf semble avoir repris le contrôle de la situation. MIDI LIBRE – MIKAËL ANISSET

Face à Sochaux (1-1), Nîmes a laissé filer 2 points. Attention tout de même à ne pas trop gâcher…

For 90 minutes, Nîmes midfielder Vincent Marcel, absent (muscle discomfort) on Friday against Sochaux (1-1), was able to see what the average spectator experiences in the stands every fortnight at the Antonins.
''Even if we always want to be on the pitch, it's a different vision that we have, explained the Guadeloupean in the mixed zone. It's actually quite interesting, I saw spaces and things that I wouldn't see on the pitch. Now, it's not interesting to be in the stands often (sic).''
Let the former Nice player rest assured; he should soon be back in the starting eleven. ''It's nothing too bad, it's more a pain of fatigue, but it'll be fine'', he assured, having been a starter for the first seven matches until then.

Diouf : ''We had the possibility of putting Sochaux 3 points ahead in the standings''

From the stands, Marcel, like the 1,543 spectators present, noted that Nîmes could have done it, should have done it but, that in the end, Nîmes did not do it. That the Crocodiles did not know how to validate their good sequences, their strong moments during the second act and, above all, did not manage to keep the score, although they had been ahead on the scoreboard since the 67th minute thanks to Picouleau's goal.

''It's a recurring problem not to score this second goal, conceded Gard coach Adil Hermach. There was a big waste of energy from the kids. I think we have the space to score it. But as long as you don't put it in, you're always on the lookout, on something like that…''

NO equidistant from the top and the red zone

This ‘’thing’’ ; this penalty – not the clearest in the history of football – which, in the standings, took away 2 points from Nîmes in this National where all units count. ''It's up to us to learn quickly to collect points and continue to advance, recalled central defender Waly Diouf, one of the key players, like Picouleau, Mexique and Doukansy, who is gradually recovering his level from last year. Today (Friday), Sochaux was a team that was level on points with us and that we had the possibility of putting at 3 points. I hope that it will only be postponed with, in two weeks, the return of the National championship in Dijon.''
This morning, NO, with its 8 matches played and its 9 points on the clock, is located in the soft underbelly of the division, equidistant in points (3) from the top 5 (Orléans, 12 points, 7 matches) and the red zone and Châteauroux, 16th and first relegation zone (6 points in 7 matches).

Never seemed so close to winning away…

A quarter of the way through the season, is Adil Hermach a little more advanced and does he know a little more about the real potential of his team?? ''It's the same feeling, he assures us. Against Orléans (1-2, 1st day, on August 16 at the Antonins), we had a good match. Concarneau and Rouen, on a difficult pitch, were less good performances. But, today, I remain on the good that I think of my players.''

A technician who is already looking ahead to the future; the Coupe de France and this 5th round at R2 Aimargues, Saturday (5 p.m.):''As long as there is a match to play. If we still want to play in the championship because that's why we try to perform, the Cup is also a competition that is always fun to play in.''

And regarding a first away victory of the season, something tells us that in Aimargues, the Nîmes team… have every chance of concluding.

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