…OPPONENT

When a team like Monaco is injured, they try to get back on track. I read the statements of their coach and Thilo Kehrer, they said that they were already looking towards our match with a great desire to redeem themselves. For them, it will be a meeting which will have the value of a final, because it can launch them back into the championship.

…MATCH PLAN

When you face a team that is playing for your life, you also have to play for your life. If we are 1% below them in terms of intensity, the match will be very complicated. I had the chance to feel the warmth of the supporters in the days leading up to the match. Clearly, this meeting has special value for our supporters and for regional hegemony. It will be special in terms of ranking, and to give us continuity in the results.

…ABOUT MATCH

Maybe our current opponents analyse us better and are more concentrated than at the start of the season. We work hard in training to score more but we cannot score three goals per match. Sometimes some goals are too easy and we have to find a balance between the defensive and offensive sectors. One thing is certain, we have to do better in the future.

…NICE

Nice is a very good team that defends very well with already 11 or 12 clean sheets. It’s probably the best team in Europe behind! We have to be careful on the counterattack and on set pieces. They have a very good structure.

…WHAT WE EXPECT

We need to do better in these situations, that’s for sure. At the start of the season we were probably the best team in the championship in these set-pieces, now that has turned around, and we have to fix it. We take too many boxes, that’s a fact. This forces us to change the starting lineup each time, like against Toulouse where he will miss three games. I took out Denis Zakaria in Rouen to avoid losing him for the Derby, because it is important for us to have him on the field.