“The performance was not brilliant” admitted the Nice coach, Francesco Farioli, after the draw against Clermont (0-0), but “it’s not a drama”, he assured. “I don’t know if we lost two points, but there is really the regret of not having won,” said Farioli after the match, for whom Nice had “a very good 15 minutes of entry. But then, we evolved too individually,” he analyzed. “When we improvise, without respecting the game plan, we expose ourselves to adverse transitions. That’s what happened at the end of the half.”
At this point, Nice conceded a penalty, saved by Marcin Bulka. “Certainly, he helped us a lot by taking him out, like with his save in the second half. The performance was not brilliant. So you have to keep working, pay attention to the little things, and still believe in them. Everything is possible to achieve our goals. It’s not a drama. We weren’t geniuses before, we’re not bad now,” he put things into perspective. “We put 43 balls in the area,” Farioli said. Difficult to do more. He missed the right reading of the game and the right choice. We work to transmit confidence to the players. It’s the only method I know.”
Farioli, however, regretted “the lack of a more ferocious reaction to losing the ball”, as well as the ability to better manage the defensive aspect “when we are in possession of the ball. You then have to know how to avoid opposing transitions on open ground, he said. For that, you have to be in good position. If we lose the distance between us, we will be countered (…). We cannot afford to be less precise than at the start of the season.”
