Patrice Canayer: “Here, we are in Montpellier, we are not baltringues”, before the capital match of MHB against Zagreb in the Champions League

Patrice Canayer et le MHB affrontent Zagreb ce mercredi en Ligue des champions. Midi Libre – JEAN MICHEL MART

MHB coach Patrice Canayer addressed the Champions League return play-off match against Zagreb, scheduled for Wednesday March 3 (8:45 p.m.), with the MHB coach Patrice Canayer. advantage of playing it at home and the experience that goes with it.

Has serenity returned to your team ?

Did I at one point give you the impression that I was not calm?? No. I am no less serene nor more serene than a week ago. I am preparing my team, as I have already said, with everything in my possession to try to ensure that we are as efficient as possible in this fortnight. Which is an extremely important fortnight in the calendar and which I have noticed for a while, like a week, as a risky fortnight.

Above all, do you prefer these knockout matches where you don't have to ask any questions ?

What I wanted to make clear in my interventions was that we had to put ourselves in an emergency situation. The emergency is when, at a given moment, your back is against the wall, that is to say you do not tell yourself that there will be another opportunity. next time. And there, actually, what I like is when I sense people in emergency situations.

Do you feel your players in this state of emergency?

In any case, I feel them in this situation more than some time ago. But we have already lost matches like tomorrow's at home, like against Moscow a few years ago on penalties when we had a very good match.

D’as much as in the event of defeat, the end of the season is different…

(He cuts) I don't even want to answer your question. I don't even consider failure for a moment. I recalled difficult moments in this competition. I can also remember times when we won this kind of match by ten goals and where we blew everyone away. Here, we are in Montpellier, we are not baltringues. You are one of the three or four biggest French clubs. And MHB's performances in the Champions League at home, there are a lot of clubs who would like to have them. Of course, from time to time, we got tripped up. But I want the players to understand that here, sometimes we have made opponents cry and so it is now up to them to write the new pages of Montpellier handball. And I don't even want to contemplate failure with this team.