A little bit anyway, yes
“When a team takes only 3 points out of 30 in the last ten days, there is necessarily something to worry about. Especially that honestly, I do not see too many reasons for satisfaction, improvement, after this match (very) draw in Dijon. Defensively, the Greens were strong. They find a seat worthy of the name with the contribution of Debuchy and Trauco in the corridors. But the Moukoudi-Kolo hinge still does not reassure me and ASSE will not face every day an opponent as weak as Dijon, the red lantern of the championship.
In the middle, I find that with Neyou and Camara, the team has a better balance. But offensively, what a disaster! Puel has been there for over a year but where is the playing field? Where are the complementarities? On these last matches, the game of ASSE has been summed up in centers which have rarely found a taker, in the absence of a good striker of the head and good finisher (the occasion of Bouanga last Sunday, Beric does not would he not have put it at the bottom?), and shots most often not on target. Banned or not, at their post or not, injured or not, young or old, executives who are not, this Saint-Etienne team, orphan of Fofana, sacrificed to pay off part of the debts due to a management which the direction, is in total perdition. She looks like nothing, has neither a tail nor a head. And especially not a boss, behind, nor a real n ° 9, in front. Gaps that must imperatively be filled in the Mercato. Until then, even if the adversaries are not thunderbolts (Angers, Bordeaux, Nîmes, Monaco), I do not expect miracles at the end of the year. And I sign with both hands so that ASSE is still 15th at Christmas time. “
Laurent HESS
Not yet
“If AS Saint-Etienne has obviously not won for ten matches in Ligue 1, the Greens have not yet entered the red zone. Behind Claude Puel’s team, the pace is very low even if some (Strasbourg, Reims in particular) can have flashes in some parts. Sainté stemmed the bleeding of defeats in the last two meetings against Lille and Dijon. Little by little, the infirmary begins to empty with the exception of Yvann Maçon, absent until the end of the season. The executives are here again and, like Mathieu Debuchy, assume their leadership.
With the experience of a difficult half-season in the legs, I remain convinced that the Loire youth will grow and gain confidence. So yes, it is undoubtedly missing a goalscorer in this team. This striker who was sorely lacking in Dijon on Sunday. So yes, some executive elements like Denis Bouanga are in doubt and others (Wahbi Khazri in particular) on alternating current. But I still find it hard to believe in an industrial disaster.
I don’t think the players will let go of Claude Puel. Everyone is well aware today that they will have to do, willy-nilly, with Castres in charge and that they will have to accept their choices which are not always clear. Based on this premise, the quality of the workforce still seems largely sufficient to get out of the twists and turns of the ranking and to go and grab a place between 10th and 15th. A rank corresponding to the real level of this Saint today … “
Alexandre CORBOZ