Henry: It’s a mental thing

– Monaco coach Thierry Henry refused to look for excuses for his winless run at Monaco on Monday, insisting he and his players will dig deep against Brugge in the Champions League tonight.

Henry has yet to win in four games since taking charge, losing to Strasbourg and Reims and drawing with Dijon in the league and drawing at Belgian side Brugge in the last round of European matches.

“It’s a huge game,” said Henry. “We need the three points even if some might say we should have taken three in our last game too.”

His side are third in Group A, level with Brugge on a point

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with Dortmund on nine and Atletico on six.

Champions in 2017, Monaco have sold Kylian Mbappe to PSG, Bernardo Silva and Benjamin Mendy to Manchester City, Tiemoue Bakayoko to Chelsea, Thomas Lemar to Atletico Madrid and Fabinho to Liverpool in the last 18 months.

Henry played down the role of changes in playing staff in Monaco’s worrying collapse.

“The changes are no excuse,” insisted Henry, who took over from the sacked Leonardo Jardim in mid-October.

“It’s a mental thing but I’m not going to pretend this isn’t worrying, because it is,” he said. –