“Whoa cow! “By discovering the number of journalists waiting for him in the small press room of the Rabine stadium, Pierre Talmont, Vannes coach, marked a time. Then he put some pretty words on an evening which will remain for a long time in the memories of 5,000 spectators despite the rather heavy final score (0-4). “It’s not a disappointment, it’s the end of an adventure,” he summed up. We put the club forward for a week, that’s what you have to remember. “
Very quickly, the name of Kylian Mbappé is invited into discussions with journalists. “We especially saw it in the second half,” notes the Breton coach. At first, he was not too invested, not too concerned. He had been mastered. Yes, in the second half, we saw the real Kylian Mbappé, who put speed. He started playing more because he maybe had a little more space too. “
No regrets
Pierre Talmont has no regrets. He just emphasizes that his team “respected” PSG too much during the first half hour. “But this is not the PSG of ten years ago, he emphasizes. Today, there are only world stars that we watch on TV and that we admire for some. There were eight internationals at kickoff. It is not lambdas players that we played. Even if they came back from vacation, they have a certain mastery, a class. That’s why there was more waste than usual. “
For the National 2 club, this Tuesday will mark “the return to our daily lives” as the coach specifies, drawing attention to “the three January matches which will determine the rest of our season”. “The goal is to re-mobilize,” he says. We lived a little daydream. But we have the objective of playing the top of the table. We have to turn the page very quickly. The players will be judged on 32 matches this season, by a match once morest PSG. “
Then comes Alexandre Lavenant. The defender is the big winner of the evening. It was indeed he who managed to recover Kylian Mbappé’s jersey at the final whistle. “It will end up in a small frame, I hesitate to wash it,” he laughs.
He tells the behind the scenes of what remains an exploit as the applicants were numerous. “I tried to think regarding it as little as possible,” he says. I asked him at the very end: if we end the meeting next door, will he let me? He said yes. But he also said that a lot of players had asked him! I told him to give it to the one who would be closest to him… ”Alexandre Lavenant therefore managed not to leave the Parisian in the last seconds of the match.
As for his impressions of the Blues striker, he testifies: “Even when you have the impression of controlling, he hits in the top corner … You have to see it to realize it. Frankly, its acceleration capacity… It’s even more impressive in real life. We see the balloon leaving, we say to ourselves that we are with him and… we turn around, he is no longer there. It’s super enriching. “
Like his coach, he would have liked to “hold the 1-0 longer” and “offer a goal to the public”. So make way for the championship with a late match on Saturday. The objective remains to “switch back to the first part of the table”. But for that, “we will have to forget what we lived”. And it won’t necessarily be easy.
