In his analysis of ASSE’s poor results for Goal, Laurent Hess said that Claude Puel was in great danger internally.
“However, this energy, this aggressiveness, this going have disappeared for a few weeks. The collective no longer gives off the same strength, the same ardor, the same union. This is perhaps the most worrying thing. In any case, this is where my biggest fear lies. Within this group, Puel launched most of the youngsters, he also inducted Moulin as goalkeeper n ° 1. But players like Kolo, Moukoudi, Khazri, Trauco, Silva, have been sidelined. Boudebouz is still, Ruffier is placarded. This makes a lot of dissatisfied, or ex-dissatisfied, to which we can add Bouanga, pointed out by Puel after Nice, and Hamouma, little excited by the first offer of contract extension that was submitted to him. So we just have to hope that all these pretty little people ignore the frustrations and fully play the collective card, as was the case at the start of the season. And that he is at the required physical level, too. Otherwise… “