What is your feeling after this cruel defeat?
Charles Ollivon:
My feeling?
Not simple hot ... There is a bit of disappointment because we invested a lot during the week and the match.
But we still have our fate in our hands.
We are therefore motivated for the next match (
against Wales, next Saturday at the Stade de France
,
Editor's note
).
We are keen to move on, while making use of the small mistakes, the small lessons of this defeat.
What small mistakes?
There have been several.
But I don't want to look at the negative.
I prefer to remember that we put a lot of courage, involvement, desire.
I have full confidence in the whole team.
I am sure that we will give everything for the remaining fortnight.
So let's keep the positive to go forward and be combative.
"
I'm not worried because the guys are very strong in their heads
"
Once again, the France team lost control over the second half. How do you explain it?
We find ourselves under pressure the last ten minutes.
Because of a little lack of lucidity and small mistakes.
We need to be more solid on the bases, in our system, under pressure.
We will work even more to be more enduring in the head when the pressure is on at the end of the match.
I'm not worried because the guys are very strong in their heads.
We will resume our march forward.
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Can this be explained by a surplus of fatigue linked to the month without a player due to Covid?
We gave a lot in the field, like the English.
We had some slack, the English too.
I really don't think that's it.
We have to anchor things, go to the end.
This will be the key for the last two matches.
“
We are still in the game to win the Tournament.
Count on us to let go
”
The Grand Slam which flies away, is it a halt?
The Grand Slam, I never talked about it ... We are in the rest of our progress.
And still in the game to win the Tournament.
We played our three away games, we took a very important point (defensive bonus) at Twickenham.
We have two home matches left (
Wales next Saturday, Scotland probably on Friday March 26, Editor's note
) and we have our fate in hand.
This was not the case last year.
Count on us to let go!
This defeat will not be too hard to digest, like the one against in Scotland last year?
In Scotland, we take zero points, we cash in a lot and that gets us out of the race.
We had to catch up with a big gap.
It is not the same case this time.
With the point taken in England and two matches to come at home, the simple objective: to win the last two matches (Wales, vying for the Grand Slam has 19 points, France 10, Editor's note).
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