“Take match after match”. The formula is not new but corresponds to the state of mind of the moment.
Relaxed faces, slung smiles: Friday’s session at Jean-Gallet left no room for doubt: the 2022 CCF displays a completely different face than during the first half of the season. A five-match unbeaten streak (4 wins, 1 draw) which allowed Arnaud Archimbaud’s partners to reduce the gap on the Versailles leader from 12 points in mid-January to 5 currently. And above all to gain a serenity far removed from the friability of the start of the championship. Between August and September, and after opening the scoring, the Chartrains suffered three 2-1 defeats (Romorantin, Rouen and Saint-Malo).
Reunion with Steven, the other Papin
The last was also the most spectacular with two goals conceded in the last ten minutes. “Getting knocked down can happen in football. But it’s more the way of doing things that bothered me. Saint-Malo had sent the FFF videos which had proved nothing. I did not appreciate, ”warns Jean-Pierre Papin, referring to the scuffles which had broken out at the Marville stadium, at the final whistle. A “September 11” all things considered which had plunged the CCF into the second half of the ranking (10th, 7 points behind the Lorient leader).
C’Chartres Football
Returning to a place more in line with its ambitions, 3rd, C’Chartres Football intends to give priority to logic against Malouins still struggling in the standings but who have just come out of the red zone for the first time, thanks to their victory over Poissy (2-0): “It shows with our results since the start of the year. We gained confidence over the matches. The contribution of Clément (Chantôme) has also done us a lot of good: we exude more serenity, with more fluidity in the game”, greets Kévin Malaga, caught up in the incidents on the way out but decided to stay focused on the objective: “Dominate Saint-Malo to maintain the pressure on Versailles”.
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Remote duel with Versailles
This evening, faced with a corsair formation transformed since the sidelining of Fabien Pujo (replaced by Gwen Corbin) and the arrival of striker Steven Papin in early February, the task promises to be delicate: “We are sure good momentum (2 wins, one draw). It must be kept. Personally, playing against your former club always gives extra motivation. Chartres is a big piece but we will have our say. I am happy to find my former partners: Arnaud (Archimbaud), Nico (Palbrois) or Aurélien (Gazeau). But if I can open my counter tonight, I will not deprive myself of it, ”warns the former center-forward of the CCF, 36 goals in N2 (between 2017 and 2020).
This Saturday evening, it is also the distance duel with the Versailles leader who will be on everyone’s mind. Except that of Jean-Pierre Papin: “I don’t care (sic) about Versailles. We know what we have to do and we have to do it. We are lucky to have attackers with full confidence, whether Erwan (Colas), Dramane (Koné) or Adama (Sidibé), scorer in Rouen: we have to surf on it, ”warns the CCF technician, who will have to do without the services of Jérémy Francou (hit in the groin).
But once the final whistle has sounded at the Grand-Prés, all eyes will be on Châteaubriant: “We are concerned about ourselves but that does not prevent us from being supporters of the opponents of Versailles! “Concludes, mischievously, JPP.
David Berthelem
Chartres (Jacques-Couvret stadium).
This Saturday, March 5, at 6 p.m.
Chartres Football: Crépel, Barry – Palbrois, Soukouna, Malaga, Gonzalez, Archimbaud (cap.), Picot – Gazeau, Haddadou, Chantôme, Louzif, Hemia, Koné – Colas, Sidibé. Entr. : JP Papin.
US Saint-Malo: Yavorski, Louis – Maisonneuve, Fdaouch, Debreux (cap.), Vermet, Portejoie – Miroux, Inzoudine, Valla, Laraba, Iva – Papin, Curtius, Hidasse, Cissé. Entr. : G. Corbin.
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VERSAILLES – CHARTRES: the gap is narrowing
Eliminated Tuesday at the Allianz Riviera by OGC Nice in the semi-finals of the Coupe de France (2-0), the players of FC Versailles return to the routine of the championship, this evening, in Châteaubriant (7th). What face will the partners of Kapit Djoco, still leaders of pool A, show only four days after the end of their epic, against the Voltigeurs who had erased a handicap of two goals in the first leg (2-2)? This is the whole issue of this 20th day which will conclude the second third of the championship. The trend that has been emerging since the start of the year seems in any case favorable to C’Chartres Football, now 3rd in the standings after its victory in Rouen (0-1), on February 26, in a late match of the 17th day. .
Since January 15, the players of the CCF have made up a good part of their delay (12 to 5 points, read opposite) but their recovery remains to be put into perspective since over this period, the CCF has played one more match than its opponent. yvelinois. At an equivalent number of matches, the Chartrains compiled 4 wins and a draw (13 points) while the FCV garnered 2 wins and 3 draws (9). How will the curves evolve in the coming weeks? For them to come together, President Soler’s men will have to continue at their current pace, hoping that the Versaillese will bear the brunt of the efforts made in the Coupe de France. Start of response tonight.
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