After the return match against Dijon, counting for the 16th day of D2, Saint-Etienne failed to materialize his lead with this 2-0 defeat. Etienne coach Jerome Bonnet reacted on this bad step of his team.


His reaction on the match

Before being disappointed on the result, I am disappointed about the way, about the content. I do not know if it was stress or tension, but I did not recognize my team. We have not lived up to the event and inevitably the result can not be there. Especially in front of a team like Dijon, which she knew how to put the good ingredients and especially knew to be present from the beginning to the end.


How do you explain it? It is the pressure, or group cohesion that was also lacking in this meeting?

Yes, when you are 1-0, I did not see a feeling of revolt. Which is damaging as we have seen in other games where we were in trouble and where we had revolted, and where we had put right after our game in place and that's not what I have found today. So of course there is the opposition, but the opponent was not Dijon today, it was us unfortunately.


We saw two blocks in the team today. There is a certain heterogeneity of the group, between fiery young players and more patient executives in their game.

That's it, in these games to stakes, we see all the experience we lack to show great ambitions and some players have just been able to bring that, others have struggled to manage their emotions on this kind of appointment -you.


You were really jostled by Dijon in this meeting.

I have the impression to see the first leg, but the roles have been reversed today, I think. That's what we missed. We will analyze all this, because there are six games left, we will play these games thoroughly, even if we put a shot in the foot. We must continue to walk, and especially not to demobilize, not to disperse and remain in solidarity, while continuing to work with humility to hope for one, see two missteps Dijon because the goal-average particular, he passes before us. But as long as the championship is not over, we will play the shot thoroughly.


Tactically the match

On paper we had a team to attack on the corridors. I think we have not released enough offensively to put Dijon in trouble. We did it a few times and we saw that we could put them in danger. We were afraid of doing wrong, perhaps, I think.


Has not the field been penalizing in the transmission of your balloons too?

It was penalizing maybe, but I did not see any intentions. And if we do not have that, we can have a bumpy terrain or whatever, it's the same for both teams ...


They played on long balloons on their side ...

Yes, after it was our game [to play short and on the sides], unfortunately we can change our game plan, but we do not have the same players so we each have his tactics of play. We play on our strengths and when you do not put them to good use for the collective game, it shows automatically.


Are there any positives to note in this match?

We'll analyze all that, I'll resume the video, we'll see. We will recover [forces], treat the heads especially, and then there are things that I saw especially in the first that may be interesting but again, I have not seen my team.