To face FC Nantes, theASSE can count on his two winter recruits: Pope Abu Cisse and Anthony Modeste. Recruited in the last days of the transfer window, the defender and striker qualified for the 23rd day of Ligue 1 on Wednesday evening.
ASSE: A defender and an attacker in reinforcement
ASSE got stronger in the last moments of the winter market on Monday. Claude Puel welcomed Pape Abou Cissé and Anthony Modeste to his team. The first is from Olympiakos (Greece), while the second is from FC Cologne in the Bundesliga. They are both on loan until the end of the current season. They were made official on Saturday January 30 and Monday February 1 respectively. The two Saint-Etienne recruits will be able to take part in the match against FC Nantes, at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium, this Wednesday (9 p.m.).
Coming on the edge, Pape Abou Cissé was unable to qualify for last Sunday’s meeting against OGC Nice. ASSE had nevertheless managed to return from the Alpes Maritimes with a victory (1-0). Remember that Sainté is among the worst defenses and worst attacks in Ligue 1 this season, with 35 conceded goals and 21 goals scored in 22 games. Claude Puel has certainly indicated that the two recruits are not “saviors”, but there is no doubt that they will strengthen two areas of play that need it.
Pope Cissé and Anthony Modeste, reassuring
Pope Abou Cissé and Anthony Modeste landed in Saint-Étienne with great ambitions. The Senegalese defender said at a press conference on Tuesday: “We must ensure that we recover the rank that this club and its supporters deserve. The group is out of place. We have to look up ”. As for the French center-forward, he wants to write a new page in the history of the Loire club, after that of his father Guy Modeste. The latter had been from the glorious epic of AS Saint-Étienne. He had worn the colors of the Greens between 1973 and 1979.
“I am at ASSE to do my best with my teammates to achieve our goals. I’m thirsty for goals… I feel better and 100%. […] It is also up to me to invest myself, with the experience I have, in helping the youngest, ”reassured Anthony Modeste. Remember that the new Saint-Etienne striker knows Ligue 1 well after playing for OGC Nice (his training club), for the Girondins de Bordeaux and for SC Bastia. He also wore the Angers SCO jersey in 2009-2010, but in Ligue 2.
The ASSE group against FC Nantes
Claude Puel has selected 22 players for the arrival of the Gym in Forez. Ryad Boudebouz and Jean-Philippe Krasso (loaned to Le Mans FC in National) are absent: Bajic, Moulin, Green – Moukoudi, Kolodziejczak, Cissé, Trauco, Debuchy, Sow – Camara, Aouchiche, Neyou, Youssouf, Gourna, Moueffek – Abi, Khazri, Modeste, Nordin, Bouanga, Hamouma, Monnet-Paquet.
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