AS Saint-Etienne will start its 2019 year against Bastia-Borgo this Sunday in the Coupe de France before going to challenge PSG on Wednesday in the Coupe de la Ligue. Two events where the Greens want to shine.
Even if the transfer window file must stir the nights of Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo, on the side of the Greens of AS Saint-Etienne we think especially of this double dose of Cup, since in the space of four days the team Claude Puel will try to qualify for the rest of the Coupe de France and the Coupe de la Ligue. Two meetings which will be played each time far from the Cauldron of Geoffroy-Guichard. A little hard in Ligue 1 after a disastrous December, released by the back door in the Europa League, ASSE version Claude Puel wants to take advantage of the national cups to green again.
Avenge ASSE after the Europa League
Even if he knows that it will be hard to win Wednesday against Paris Saint-Germain, Mathieu Debuchy thinks that there is still room for AS Saint-Etienne this season in at least one of the two cuts. ” Winning the French championship at the moment is hard (smiles). The League Cup can go very quickly. The Coupe de France is more about the long term. Matches are complicated because even if you can play against small teams, they want to appear well. Certain clubs make their season on this competition. It’s a tough cut. At the start of the season, it’s always one of the objectives: either the Coupe de la Ligue, where the road is shorter, or the Coupe de France. We want to succeed in one of the two. We want to show another face, especially in this Coupe de France. We would like to go far and slightly erase this disappointing Europa League “, Explains in Le Progrès, Mathieu Debuchy, who won the Coupe de France with Lille in 2011, and the Cup with Arsenal in 2015 and 2017. He added AS Saint-Etienne to this list.