Le Mans 1 St Etienne 0
By: Jonathan | August 25th, 2008Dear oh dear. Another away game, another defeat. This was not the best way to prepare for next weekend’s crucial derby clash with Lyon. Was last season’s fifth place a false dawn?
The match report on the club site makes it sound as if St Etienne had plenty of possession, but were caught out by a quick counter-attack in the first half and just could not score despite laying siege to the Le Mans goal.
Here’s the winning goal - looks like really poor defending to me. There’s no way Helstad should have been allowed that much space inside the box:
Manager Laurent Roussey described the defeat as “worrying”, saying that the match was basically the same as the game against Valenciennes, except that this time the winning goal was not a controversial one. “We didn’t have the resources or the talent to get back on level terms,” he said. “I just don’t recognise my team. I can’t understand the lack of commitment from older players and even the younger guys who played with hunger last year look different to me as well.”
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