At a standstill until March 23 at least, because of the coronavirus pandemic that currently affects France and Ligue 1, AS Saint-Etienne does not know what to do.
Greens must take their 2019-2020 season in what direction? In the right direction, with a final of the Coupe de France in line of sight against PSG, or in the wrong direction, with a maintenance to be validated in L1? The answer is surely between these two points. Because following the explosion of joy after the success against Rennes in the cup on March 5 (2-1), Sainté fell back into his league fights against Bordeaux the following weekend (1-1). Because of their seventh straight game without a single L1 win, the Forez club sank into the bottom of the rankings, in seventeenth place, with three small points ahead of Nîmes, the roadblocker. And for Loïc Chavériat, Claude Puel’s priority at the start should be the championship.
“We shouldn’t ignite because we are in the final”
“The ASSE semi-final against Rennes? The Greens made the right match, their best game in a long time. I liked their desire, their cohesion. It’s a benchmark match, but you have to forget about this final. We will think about it later. Because the situation in the league is worrying. The margin is becoming narrower. Metz, Dijon and Nîmes have been better than us since the start of the year, and there are only the Nîmes behind. It’s worrying, of course. We will have to quickly collect points because if our spiral continues, we go straight towards the dams. You shouldn’t ignite because you’re in the final. Our schedule is not simple at all. The ideal would be to be already saved before the final. We could play without pressure ”, launched, on But FC, the former Stéphane striker, who therefore believes that maintaining the Greens in L1 will be more important than a potential victory in the Coupe de France, while ASSE has no longer played such a final since the 1980s…