Francesco Farioli
NiceRegis Le Bris
Lorient
Meeting Highlights...LORIENT
Lorient is a team which, in the return phase, made a significant change of pace. They have had a long run of good results. It’s a team that has excellent organization. A team that manages to combine two very distinct phases without the ball: one based on very high pressing, the other on waiting. It is one of the teams, with Paris, which is the most efficient: it scores more goals than it creates chances. All the credit goes to their players, to the situations they manage to generate thanks to their style of play.
...ABOUT THE MATCH
We will have to try to limit the area where they are good: counterattacks on open ground. They have players up front of great quality, very physical. We paid for it in the first leg, dropping two points after a high-level match. It will be a meeting that I think will be open, because both teams need points and at this point in the season, points count double. There must be, on our side, a great desire to play this match, with attention and intelligence.
Francesco Farioli
Manager on Nice...LORIENT
Lorient is a team which, in the return phase, made a significant change of pace. They have had a long run of good results. It’s a team that has excellent organization. A team that manages to combine two very distinct phases without the ball: one based on very high pressing, the other on waiting. It is one of the teams, with Paris, which is the most efficient: it scores more goals than it creates chances. All the credit goes to their players, to the situations they manage to generate thanks to their style of play.
...ABOUT THE MATCH
We will have to try to limit the area where they are good: counterattacks on open ground. They have players up front of great quality, very physical. We paid for it in the first leg, dropping two points after a high-level match. It will be a meeting that I think will be open, because both teams need points and at this point in the season, points count double. There must be, on our side, a great desire to play this match, with attention and intelligence.
Regis Le Bris
Manager on Lorient...ABOUT THE MATCH
We will have to try to limit the area where they are good: counterattacks on open ground. They have players, up front, of great quality, very physical... There will have to be, on our side, a great want to play this match, with attention and intelligence.
...NICE
Nice has a very characteristic style and quality players, but at one point, they became predictable. They are on the rocks. The match is going to be extremely important for both teams. We have worked on the benchmarks, everyone wants to make their contribution. We have stabilized an interesting level of play. We must continue in this dynamic, and look for that little extra to make everything change.