Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: Laurent Hess’s edit on Anthony Modeste’s difficult adaptation
It’s premature
“As much as I fully understand that ASSE can finish the season with its former No. 3 holder to preserve the momentum, I believe that the role of goalkeeper is special and requires a clear hierarchy. For me, by virtue of his experience and his performances in Green, Jessy Moulin does not deserve a downgrading on an injury. Especially not now and especially not like that.
Of course, Moulin hasn’t always been decisive this season. I would also recall (and above all) that he was rarely able, unlike Green, to benefit from a stable defensive footing and spared from injuries. This season, the native of Valence also had to digest the controversy around Stéphane Ruffier. Many wanted his mistakes to blame Claude Puel for the management of the former French international. A harmful pressure that he will not necessarily have next season. I simply remind critics of Jessy Moulin that he, too, had done excellent interim work in the past. It is always psychologically simpler to play the “back-up” than to have the label of n ° 1 on your shoulders. Moulin paid to learn and I think Green will also pay to learn when he is.
Etienne Green is only 20 years old, 6 matches in Ligue 1, and in my opinion can wait a bit before settling down for good. I’m more on a gradual transition, with Cup matches next year. It’s not as if Jessy Moulin, who has been patient for ten years, still has several more seasons to come. By 2022, when the contract of the current number 1 expires, it will then be necessary to ask the question between Moulin, Green … Or Bajic if he returns to the game. For 2021-22, I would not question the role of Jessy Moulin. “
Alexandre CORBOZ
He forces fate
“I find it difficult to answer this question. And I ask myself this: does Claude Puel himself already know which goalkeeper he intends to start next season with? In my opinion, Jessy Moulin has not been unworthy but his season has been average, made up of ups and downs. His defense, often decimated, did not help him. The feverishness had seized him at one point and he had sunk with the ship, before he started to climb up the slope, then hurt himself. Stefan Bajic, announced as the future of the club as a goalkeeper, did not know how to seize his chance. He has been particularly unhappy whenever he has had the opportunity to show off. Quite the opposite of Etienne Green. From his first match in Nîmes, the aptly named Green was amazing while having a good dose of success. This one always accompanies him since the free kick of Payet last Sunday is the 6th opposing shot repelled by its amounts since he occupies the Stéphanois goals … The former 3rd goalkeeper of the U19 winners of Gambardella has the baraka but he scores points, undoubtedly, since his baptism by fire. Apart from this lack of profession at the end of the match in Paris, he is irreproachable and often decisive. What makes him one of the key men in maintaining L1, the good end of the season for the team. For the rest, Puel will decide. The extension of Green’s contract is a clue to his future: he will be tinged with Green. It remains to be seen in what role. But who would cry scandal if the young goalkeeper was still in the goals of ASSE at the start of the school year? “
Laurent HESS
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