Fifteenth in Ligue 1 with only 7 points ahead of the 18th, AS Saint-Etienne finds itself in a particularly uncomfortable situation in Ligue 1.
Beaten by Olympique de Marseille on Wednesday evening at the end of the 23rd day of Ligue 1, the Greens are worried. Unable to achieve good results, Claude Puel’s men have not taken a point in their last two league games. A negative spiral that forces ASSE to look down according to the former Leicester coach, who believes that Saint-Etienne can not aim for anything other than maintenance this season given the delay accumulated since the start of the season.
“We have been looking down, I have been saying this for a while, because in addition we have match sequences and that for six months” said Claude Puel, lucid about the situation in Saint-Etienne, before complaining about the sequence of matches and the numerous injuries which affected his workforce. Sunday evening, Wahbi Khazri seemed to be hit behind the thigh, a few seconds before the final whistle. “We’ve been chained for six months, we have injured people, they come back and re-injure themselves. We are very busy and there are times, like in Metz, when we do not respond present in concentration. But overall I think my players give everything they can give. We can have waste, even if I find that today there was more quality, but we can not blame my group for not fighting, giving, and we will continue like that. We have a very important match to prepare Sunday against Montpellier. We’ll see who’s available ”. It will be understood, morale is not good at Saint-Etienne before a perilous trip on the lawn of Montpellier this weekend.