New arrival in the cage of AS Saint-Étienne, Paul Bernardoni arrives in Forez with the firm intention of remaining in Ligue 1.
A mission that he has already managed to achieve in the past with Nîmes when things were however just as badly started.
“There is a season with Nîmes, we had 12 points at the break and we made it, we held on. We had gone on a cohesion course, we had a discussion. We realized that we were losing a lot of games in the last few minutes, on details and we thought that maybe we were giving up games a little too quickly. With a new state of mind, the rookies, the playoffs, we had won four straight games in a row, we had saved, “he recalls.
The first steps of the goalkeeper with the Saint-Etienne workforce reassured him in this perspective. “I have seen a lot of ASSE matches this season. More often than not, it didn’t play out. Sometimes it didn’t work out in our favor, it wasn’t far each time. For having played against them with Angers, they come back at the last minute, it shows that they are not giving up, we do not arrive in a downcast group far from it. “
After 19 days, ASSE is in last place in the standings with 12 points (but one game less). The Greens will play their first match of the year in the league this Saturday (5 p.m.) against Lens.