Thanks to a good collective performance and a double from Romain Hamouma, AS Saint-Etienne dominated FC Lorient (2-0, summary and notes), this Sunday afternoon on the occasion of the 2nd day of Ligue 1 After this victory, Claude Puel, the coach of the Greens, took advantage of his visit to a press conference to congratulate his players.
“I am satisfied with the result and happy for the players. (…) We had to prepare a first match, the Coupe de France final, for July 24 and have to plan for a second official match more than a month later. And then we don’t play for two weeks anymore. We finished as best we could, with cramps. But there were some interesting things“, said the technician from Loire to the media, firmly convinced that his team can still do much better:”This group needs trust. There are good dynamics and promises. There was excitement but also good streaks. We sometimes lacked management. The group should be rewarded for its summer preparation. I always expect more because I know that this group, to which we must give time, has real potential and can do better compared to what I see in training.“, he concluded.