FC Metz wants to stay in the green ! This Sunday, the Grenats face AS St Etienne in St Symphorien. The club at the Croix de Lorraine have been undefeated for four days of the championship, while the Greens have lost their first three Ligue 1 games.
After the draw obtained in Angers last Sunday (1-1), Frédéric Antonetti, the Metz coach explains ” that this good point must be improved by a victory against ASSE “.
Still deprived of Thierry Ambrose, hit in an ankle, the garnet staff summons, for the first time, in the group, one of his summer recruits: forward Vagner Dias, could thus, know his first minutes in garnet, this Sunday, against his training club.
Several Messins have also frequented the Forez club: midfielders Habib Maïga and Vincent Pajot, and coach Fred Antonetti, who led ASSE between 2001 and 2004. He keeps a half-fig, half-grape memory. ” It’s 50/50 ! “.
For this meeting, the Corsican technician also records the return of his midfielder, Habib Maïga, who served against Angers, his suspension match.
In St Etienne, the absent are quite numerous! Claudel Puel, the Stéphanois coach will have to call in particular a new-look defense.