It has been six months since AS Saint-Étienne won a championship match. It was against Marseille on May 09. At the time the continuous news channels did not speak of Eric Zemmour every five minutes, Thomas Pesquet had just left for space and Lionel Messi in Ligue 1, it was still pure fantasy. Water has therefore flowed under the bridges and during this time, AS Saint-Etienne, it simply sinks.
Twentieth in Ligue 1 for five days now, the Greens saw their direct competitors take points last weekend. Even if they win this Sunday afternoon, they would remain in the relegation zone. At the foot of the volcano, the possibility of a first victory is always a pipe dream. Why believe that, this time against Clermont Foot, it will be the right one? “Because we don’t have much choice answers Timothée Kolodziejczak. You have to persevere and show character. I think we were able to do it against Angers in a fairly hostile atmosphere. If we solve our little concentration problems individually, we will start to take points and free ourselves a little more. I find that we are on the right track“.
No derby or supremacy but 3 points that’s all
The descendants of Vercingétorix unload themselves from the volcanoes without complex. Sure of a collective strength that allows them to hope, for the moment, not to make the lift between Ligue 1 and Ligue 2. It should have been a beautiful celebration of football between two cities separated only by 145 km and who share a working-class past with a strong identity and common values, but two cities which have not yet built any real rivalry. The party will wait, the struggle for regional supremacy too. Only victory, as long as the Greens still know what it means, matters this afternoon.