SM Caen. Does Stade Malherbe really have to work more to earn more?

“You have to take refuge in work. “” The questioning goes through work. “” We have to get back to work. »After each defeat, leaders, coach and players of the Stade Malherbe Caen swear by one word: work. Putting on the warming blue, another expression of circumstance, would be the remedy for all ills.

Caen has therefore been working on it for months – it is in particular the team that runs the most according to the statistics of Ligue 2 matches – with well-established communication and obvious goodwill. Yet its results are still the same. The Weeds have averaged just over 0.8 points per game over the entire calendar year. They are currently 18ᵉ in Ligue 2.

“The priority is operational cohesion”

Why doesn’t Stade Malherbe improve its performance if it works so hard? Quite simply because it is not enough to work more to earn more in top-level sport. “It is better to walk quietly in the right direction than to run fully in the wrong”, image Adrian Dutertre. For this mental trainer specializing in sport in Caen, the problem with which the Normans are confronted is not related to their workload.

We have to get back to the essence of the activity. The priority is operational cohesion. It’s about making it easy for players to find each other and know how the other is working.

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“The players do not understand each other”

Here, there is no question of social cohesion, the one that Stéphane Moulin had swept aside last month. “The cohesion of the locker room, I don’t care. What interests me is cohesion on the ground. However, this operational cohesion, as Adrian Dutertre describes it, is clearly lacking in Caen. “We don’t see her much at Stade Malherbe. When we look at the waste that exists in a match, we feel that the players do not understand each other in their movements. “

For Adrian Dutertre, “the priority of the work is to carry out a real questioning” by chasing “the empty rhetoric that may exist in football”. The idea of ​​work as the only answer to the difficulties encountered seems to belong to this category. “Isn’t it actually a refuge? We don’t have a solution so we work more, hoping that this will give the players confidence. “

“Make a work plan”

Deprived of competition last weekend, Caen trained more than usual for his trip to Auxerre, this Saturday, December 4 at 3:00 p.m. Adrian Dutertre believes that we must go further to break the negative spiral.

We must identify the problems and make a work plan that will resolve them. It will not be in terms of football but in terms of understanding people.

“Reduce mental loads”

In this area, the “old collective consciousnesses” specific to football can prove to be “blocking”. Especially in terms of mental work.

Football is struggling to innovate so it’s an aspect that comes later. Many still believe that the mental dimension comes down to the coach.

Adrian Dutertre obviously believes the opposite with a simple idea in mind: “my role is to reduce mental loads and simplify everyone’s perceptions so that everything is easy. Simplicity is performance. “Work is also part of it, but it cannot be the only antidote …

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