Talking to L’Équipe, Florent Ghisolfi has rejected notions that the place of supervisor Francesco Farioli is in any method underneath risk, regardless of a current vital drop in kind.
For a lot of the season, Le Gymnasium have been on the rostrum and due to this fact ready to qualify for subsequent season’s UEFA Champions League. Nonetheless, Good have gained eight video games by only a one-goal margin, that means that they’ve usually been falling on the proper facet of high quality margins.
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They’ve now begun to fall on the flawed facet of these high quality margins. Good have misplaced three of their final 4, all by a one-goal margin, and are winless of their final 5 forward of Friday’s match towards Montpellier HSC. With the downturn in outcomes, there has inevitably been criticism. Solely FC Metz and Clermont Foot have scored fewer targets than Les Aiglons this season and so Farioli’s incapability to get the very best out of his attacking gamers has been some extent of contestation, nonetheless, for sporting director Ghisolfi, there isn’t any query that Farioli is the person for the job.
‘I don’t need Farioli to really feel at risk’ – Ghisolfi
“He isn’t blocked on only one plan,” Ghisolfi instructed L’Équipe, denying notions of Farioli’s tactical rigidity. “It’s his work that has allowed us to get right here. We’re fifth and within the quarter-final of the Coupe de France. It’s removed from catastrophic. We’re within the race.”
He continued, “I deliver him my help and my imaginative and prescient. I don’t need him to really feel at risk. I’m advising him to remain calm. The query [about his future] isn’t even being requested.”
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