It’s a bit of a week of dangers for the ASNL, with the reception of the championship leader this Wednesday evening, before the tricky 5th round of the Coupe de France on Saturday in Thaon. After three consecutive defeats, the Nancy players have two options against Red Star: react resoundingly or plunge into a sporting crisis.
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Nancy – Red Star This Wednesday (9 p.m.)
But where did this ASNL full of energy go at the start of the season, this ASNL which released real collective strength for six days, this ASNL which was the last to bite the dust in the National, this ASNL which was the best attack of the championship before stringing together three matches without a scored goal, this ASNL which encouraged supporters to subscribe in large numbers ? The players and the staff are the same but there is something wrong, which has necessarily changed. It’s not easy to put into words the current ills of thistle training. Especially since Nancy was supposed to gain momentum after her late recruitment and express preparation. It’s actually quite the opposite…
Find a certain carefreeness
According to coach Benoît Pedretti, it is a mental problem, above all: “There are a lot of things going on up there in our heads and we will have to quickly clear them”… As if the ASNL had failed to manage the post-Dijon period, the popular euphoria triggered by this large 3-0 success with a misleading score, when it found itself in third place in the ranking… Today at least, after three defeats in a row while having shown nothing in the game, no one really sees ASNL as a possible outsider in the race to climb to L2 anymore. But this is not good news at all and it would be a serious mistake to believe that the pressure from the bottom of the table is easier to bear. You just need to talk about it with the players who survived last season, which ended. on a sporting relegation to N2 , before the draft… We must, above all, find a happy medium, without getting angry or seeing everything in black. And for that, the people of Nancy would need their freshness and their certain carefree attitude from the start of the championship. At that moment, the ASNL seemed carried by the momentum of a miraculous club , very close to having come close to tragedy in the form of a bankruptcy filing in July. All the events of the summer had given her extra strength that she lost in recent weeks.
The reopening of the Piantoni tribune
The reception of Red Star, the undisputed leader of this championship with 8 victories in 9 nine days (including seven consecutive successes!), constitutes an extremely difficult meeting, of course, but it is perhaps also, paradoxically, a challenge XXL which arrives at the right time for ASNL. The kind of match that could completely revive it in the event of a positive result. This would be all the more appreciable as a “jaw-breaking” 5th round of the Coupe de France awaits Gaëtan Bussmann’s teammates, Saturday in Thaon (N3).
It would also be a good evening to reunite with the Nancy team from the start of the season, because the Marcel-Picot stadium will once again have a normal configuration this Wednesday, with the reopening of the Piantoni stand. after five matches of suspension. Five home matches, since the start of the season, during which the Thistle team has won only once. It is insufficient. But a big performance against Red Star would change a lot of things there too.
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