What do Reims, PSG, Saint-Étienne and Lorient have in common? These four Ligue 1 teams are the only ones to be unbeaten at home against the SCO since Angers climbed back into the top flight in 2015. Also, this Wednesday, as part of the 23rd day of Ligue 1, the coach of SCO, Stéphane Moulin, enthusiast of challenges, would like his players to take up the last one “Win in Reims”, where Angers has not won in the elite since 1967 (3-0).
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A challenge because the SCO, which remains on two defeats away, in Monaco (0-3) and Bordeaux (1-2), will be deprived in Champagne of its two top scorers, Stéphane Bahoken (5 goals), victim of ” a muscle injury to a thigh, and Angelo Fulgini (4 goals), insufficiently recovered from the violent crutch to a thigh which had forced him to give way to Sada Thioub in the 10th minute against Nîmes (3-1), Sunday. The Crocs are also the last to have had the skin of David Guion’s men in Auguste-Delaune (0-1), who aim to continue their streak of five matches without defeat, including two successes in their last two receptions, against Saint-Étienne (3-1) and Brest (1-0).
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Romain Thomas back
“We never won there, recalls Stéphane Moulin, who recorded one defeat and two draws at Delaune in L1 since he took the reins of the SCO. It’s a team that has returned to its level of last year. They are solid defensively, effective offensively. It is often played very little against them. They like to win 1-0. We must not make a mistake ”, insists the Angevin coach, who should be able to align his type hinge, by aligning Romain Thomas, remained on the bench against Nîmes after an Achilles tendon alert, alongside captain Ismaël Traoré.
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Angers have won ten wins in their first 22 Ligue 1 games this season. The SCO has never done better at this point in the season in its history.
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Since its last victory in Reims in Division 1 in 1967 (3-0), the SCO remains on a series of 10 games without a win in the elite at the Stade Auguste-Delaune (7 defeats, 3 draws).
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