Two draws to start the season, ASSE has seen better but for a team that has not strengthened this summer, the record is correct.
Especially since the last match against RC Lens, which ended in a spectacular and committed draw (2-2), reminds us that the Saint-Etienne youth also know how to respond when necessary. But above all, the fear of the Greens fans at the start of the season was to have no weight in attack, and with Wahbi Khazri and Denis Bouanga, not to mention a Romain Hamouma always sharp, the “old” still know how to make the powder speak. . A behavior which delights Patrick Guillou, always so prolix in his column for Le Progrès, and which made a long parallel with the vocabulary of the mine.
” The Greens are finally going coal. Casually, “it looks good”. It is ecstasy. Coke in stock. Nirvana. Sorry for the “Germinal emphasis”. Wahbi Khazri as a real foreman sets the example. For months, he has been faultless. Alternately sidelined, in the hanged room, on the lawn. He traded in the warm blue for the savior costume. He wears it well. This is the X factor. The one leading the way. First on the rope, he digs the galleries and guides the gallows. No firedamp on the horizon. On the contrary, accompanied by a cheerful Denis Bouanga, they play the blasters. Thanks to these two attacking leaders, the matches are easier. Building confidence, the team is much more cohesive. In its organization and in its structure “, Stressed the former defender of the Greens, who highlights the work done by Claude Puel to find the right balance. Even if all this remains very fragile and will require confirmation with finally a victory,