Red lantern in Ligue 1, Saint-Etienne has still not won a game since the start of the season.
Last with only three points in eight games, Saint-Etienne worries. Already in great difficulty last season, the Greens are in an even more negative spiral in 2021-2022 and Claude Puel can no longer find the solutions or the springs to restart the machine. As a hot derby against Lyon looms on Sunday night, the future of the technician from Saint-Etienne is in jeopardy. But for Mathieu Bodmer, consultant on Amazon Prime Video, the problem does not necessarily come from Claude Puel. The former Saint-Etienne defensive midfielder tends to think that it is the lack of experience in the ASSE dressing room that is lacking at the Forézien club today. It must be said that in recent years, the tauliers have all left one after the other, from M’Vila to Subotic, including Perrin, Ruffier and Debuchy.
Bodmer points to the lack of leaders
“It’s a very young team that lacks leaders, lacks alumni. We saw the departures of Debuchy, of Jessy Moulin, during this transfer window. These are people who were able to hold the locker room and turn the tide a bit. Khazri, Neyou, those who have the power, must bring positive waves. It’s complicated because at the moment the script is not in their direction. Against Nice on Saturday afternoon, they take goals but they have situations at one point to equalize. But when things are wrong, things are wrong “ launched the Amazon consultant, for whom the extreme youth of the Saint-Etienne workforce now has limits. And consequences, since the Greens are in twentieth place in Ligue 1. Fortunately for ASSE, the other clubs in the fight for maintenance are not moving very quickly either. Brest have just four points while Metz and Troyes have six.