You really need a piston to climb, at least for some…Tom Meynadier didn’t need anyone, apart from his tenacity and his legs, to get where he is today. In the top 10 of the ranking of the best passers in the National (4 assists), he is one of the nice surprises of the first part of the GOAL FC season in a championship that he is discovering. And of which he took the right measure quite quickly, to the point of reading the immediate perspectives with a slightly more precise eye.
Questioned this Wednesday at a press conference, on the next trip of his team to Nîmes, one of the unexpected competitors to maintain for his club, we perceive the student attentive to the news of his opponents: “Since the postponement of our match against Dijon, (NDRL: December 1), we have worked tactically, worked on our future opponent. We observed their passage to four defenders against Saint-Étienne in the Coupe de France (8th round won 0 -1 by the Crocos Nîmois in Saint-Étienne). We know how we will be able to adapt to this possibility, at home.”
Nîmes will be the end of a fairly busy first part of the season for him. He only missed four days of N1 this season due to muscle problems, then quickly got back into the swing of things and savored each day like all the 23-year-old guys on this scale of French football. Careless or almost unconcerned with the present time: “It’s only positive for me this season, collectively and individually”recognizes the one who before his arrival, last year at GOAL FC, lived in R1, in Feurs.
A TGV-style climb that catches the eye of L2 clubs, as beautiful stories can sometimes be written. A move from R1 to National in less than three years, one of Meynadier’s characteristics, among many others. An accelerated progression which does not go to his head. He underlines : “In Feurs, in R1, I wasn’t yet thinking about the National. I took the matches as they came…” On the right path today.
“Since Marignane, we have moved on to something else!”
Constant progress, through contact with his coach Fabien Pujo, has been added to his journey. He lucidly details these hours of learning at the National: “I had a lot of shortcomings tactically, defensive positioning, play without the ball, positioning. The obligation to learn quickly, so as not to miss the right train. “I quickly adapted to the National. From the first match, in Orléans (1-0), we started with four behind, I was positioned as a winger. During the second day, there were five of us again and in the piston position, on the right, I had the whole corridor to express myself. At five, I’m a little freer, more at ease too.”
Recently, at Marignane (2-2), the scenario which shifted to an imaginary penalty was one of the less than joyful lessons of this first part of the season. A blow to the head that he seems to have digested well today. He says fatalistically: “It’s a fact of the game, we can’t do anything about it. It’s always the referee who decides. We moved on to something else to concentrate on the last match in Nîmes.” It is now…
Le groupe du Goal FC: Philippon, Camara, Khoutri, M’Dahoma, Julloux, Meynadier, Tanard, Lopy, Camara, Assef, Lemaitre, Abbas, Fichten, Suljic, Mambu, Rambaud, Goncalves, Socka.
(Live match at 7:30 p.m. live on FFFtv).
2023-12-14 22:43:25
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