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“Sunday, ASSE followed up a second straight victory in Troyes (1-0). It is all the more rewarding as it was necessary to deal with a Saint-Etienne team diminished by many absent. This further enhances the merit of this victory, the first of the season without conceding a goal, the first also by opening the scoring in Ligue 1. I saw the Greens who played with their strengths, who were released, concerned and focused.
The victory is snatched on a sublime goal from Miguel Trauco (who was also on the verge of not playing). For once, things are swinging in the right direction. It was important to continue in this championship where the lines move quickly when a team has a good series. Today, even if the place in the standings is unenviable, the victory in Troyes was important. It allows the Greens to catch up with a peloton which has also decided to move forward as we have seen with Reims, Bordeaux or Metz.
“There was the way with a clairvoyant Boudebouz”
In the Dawn, there was the manner with a clairvoyant Ryad Boudebouz in the heart of the game. The Algerian came back to the fore and it is important for the Greens to count on these players. Especially when Wahbi Khazri, who carried the team at arm’s length, was not in good shape because he was ill before the match. Sunday, Ryad Boudebouz took over from him to lead the game. It is in this kind of match that we say to ourselves that it is important for ASSE to be able to count on certain executives who have found themselves, at a moment or another in withdrawal.
Yes, the Greens are still relegated at the start of the week but, ultimately, the place does not matter. You have to look at the number of points, the schedule … There are difficult matches coming up with Paris and Rennes at home, Brest and Reims on the move. It is now that ASSE must play its all-out. You should no longer be afraid of defeat, nor of playing. We must continue on the dynamic, do the best possible with the strengths that are those of Saint-Etienne.
“The Greens will get away with the game”
At the heart of this important week, with the expected announcements on the sale of the club and the reception of PSG, it will be difficult. You have to disregard the climate to focus on the athlete. We know very well that in Ligue 1 Paris is untouchable … Even playing Europe in the middle of the week. This reception of PSG is a Cup match to play, a gala match where it will still try to take a point. A bonus point in the maintenance race. It will not be easy, but the mistake to be made is to present yourself as a victim. The Greens will get away with the game.
Sunday, at the beginning of the afternoon, it will lack a little salt in the Cauldron with the absence of the kops, with the absence of the Parisian supporters, but that’s how it is. Even without an audience at the stadium, ASSE – PSG remains a great poster of our Ligue 1. Of course we are all nostalgic for the warm atmospheres of the past but at the time, it was more good-natured. Maybe we will find that if the League decides, one day or another, to take its responsibilities … “
The ASSE chronicle by Denis Balbir
For Denis Balbir, ASSE is on the right track in Ligue 1 after his victory in Aube against Troyes. If the confrontation against PSG promises to be complicated, our consultant wants to believe in the effect of a dynamic.
