Adi Hütter: “Don’t repeat the same mistakes as against Montpellier”
The team will once again have to find a way to pick up a victory away from home. Defeated in two of its last three trips, after having lost none of the previous four, AS Monaco travel to Rennes (Saturday, 5 p.m.) with the aim of picking up a second win in a row after beating Montpellier. In any case, that’s what is the hope of coach Adi Hütter, who gave a press conference two days before the match. 🎙
His cold analysis of Montpellier
After the match, I was more angry than frustrated. I get frustrated when we have a series of bad performances. We made simples mistakes in the first half, it doesn’t depend on the system in place. After a good start to the match, we lost control and had bad situations.
I spoke to my players at half-time and things were much better in the second half, we performed better. This is a very important victory. This week, I showed them the disparities between the two halves. In the first, for example, we played too slowly. They agreed with our analysis; it is important to be consistent.
A return for Salisu
He’s getting closer to being in the team, it’s very positive. Everyone is happy with his return to form. He hasn’t played for 8 to 9 months, it’s not easy after so much absence to play a Ligue 1 match. I have to judge when he will be fit and I’m waiting for the right moment to put him in the squad or the 11. I have a good relationship and talk a lot with him.
Playing with three or four at the back
It depends on the opponents. In Montpellier, for example, I made the decision to play with four defenders but we could sometimes play with 3. It’s good to have two different systems. In the last match we won and got a clean sheet for the fifth time this season. It’s not so bad even if we conceded five goals in Paris. You need to pay more attention to your easy mistakes.
What Balogun brings to the tea
He brings another style of football, I like that since he is able to attack from deep. We are counting on him for the future. I’m happy that he scored in Paris, just like I was for Wissam against Montpellier. We are lucky to have two very good attackers, just like we have two good number 10s.
When we look at the ranking of top scorers, we have three players in the top 10 between Wissam, Golo and Taki, while Balo is eleventh with four goals. He is gradually adapting to our way of working, as well as our style of play. He also participated in three international breaks where he had to make long trips. He is young, he is learning all of this.
His feelings about Rennes
They are one of the best teams in France. They have just brought back Julien Stéphan, who changed the system by switching to three defenders. They are also leaders of their Europa League group and have talented players. They are coming off a good match in Marseille despite the defeat. They play quickly getting forward and have a style a bit similar to us. We must not make the same mistakes otherwise it will become a difficult match, which will be very interesting.
Philipp Köhn’s play against Montpellier
We sometimes remember his mistakes which are accidents for me, except that we forget that he made a lot of big saves like against Montpellier. He has significant room for improvement and wants to improve every week. He is very good in one-on-ones, like in the match in Reims, where he made several big saves. He matches our style of play, he is very useful.
