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Three days after qualifying for the Coupe de France final, ASSE slipped to 17th place in the L1, unable to beat a pale Girondins team (1-1).
The Girondins de Bordeaux have nothing more to fear or hope for in this season where the broken promises of their management seem to annoy their supporters as much as Paulo Sousa. In addition, they were deprived of four of their best players (De Préville, Briand, Basic and Pablo) on Sunday in Geoffroy-Guichard. But in the wake of its victory in the ½ final of the Coupe de France against Rennes (2-1), ASSE was not able to continue. In a match without rhythm, against a team so pale that Paulo Sousa appeared disappointed or even resigned at a press conference, where he shot his players after the match, ASSE could not do better than a draw.
💬 “We are happy to have returned to the score” @ l00ping does not forget that the Greens were led and then reduced to ten against Bordeaux 👇 pic.twitter.com/cLk3zgQOnO
– AS Saint-Étienne (@ASSEofficiel) March 8, 2020
Puel and his players don’t even care about the situation
The Greens had the merit of quickly returning to the score after being led to the hour of play on the first Girondin opportunity, concluded by Josh Maja, well helped by Timothée Kolodziejczak. Denis Bouanga equalized, on a center from Ryad Boudebouz, before ASSE ended at ten following the expulsion of Mahdi Camara. The midfielder will be suspended in Monaco on Sunday, just like Jean-Eudes Aholou, decidedly very fragile, he who sprained himself after having harvested two great opportunities to open the score by hitting each time on Benoît Costil, without great conviction. “We haven’t been killers enough,” said Kolo after the game. The defender however considered that his team was “on the right track”, that the match was “auspicious”. Claude Puel also wanted to be positive by emphasizing the “big game” of his players, despite the fatigue. William Saliba said he was “not worried, still not.” Reading the ranking just as much as the latest results should encourage all these pretty little people to perhaps become a little better aware of the situation: 10 days before the end of the season, ASSE has lost another place in the classification, falling to 17th place with only 3 points ahead of the barragiste, Nîmes.
Khazri and Hamouma won’t hurt
A Crocos victory combined with a defeat in Monaco and the Greens would be in the red this weekend. A scenario to avoid, of course. For this, Puel should be able to record the returns of Yohan Cabaye but also of Romain Hamouma and Wahbi Khazri, the 2nd and 3rd top scorers of a team where Bouanga was still well alone ahead of Bordeaux, Loïs Diony and Charles Abi having again proven their inability to shake the nets, at a point. The two centers have only scored one goal between them in L1 this season. There would also be a lot to say about Yann M’Vila and his positioning, Ryad Boudebouz’s inability to move forward, etc. In short, ASSE is in the final of the Coupe de France for the first time since 1982 but his retention in L1 is still far from assured. And despite her good game against Rennes, we would prefer her to worry a little more about her ranking. “
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