Same number of points (11) in the standings. 10th place for Le Havre, 11th for Quevilly-Rouen Métropole. This derby normand promises to be capital for the HAC and QRM this Tuesday evening, in the middle of the marathon week with three games to play in just seven days. A derby on paper, to follow live and in full from 8 p.m. on France Bleu Normandie. But nothing to do with what we can see each year between Lyon and Saint-Etienne or Lens and Lille for example.
I don’t feel any animosity at QRM with the HAC, even with the other club in Rouen. It’s easier to work – Bruno Irles, QRM trainer
“I even believe that there is a partnership between us. It is rather between FC Rouen and Caen that there is rivalry with the HAC it seems to me”, adds the coach of the Reds and Gold. “We play each match as if it were a derby. We will put the same intensity against Le Havre as against Auxerre (editor’s note: QRM at 0 to 0 against the Burgundians). We don’t like to lose and we want to take the three points every time “, explained Ottman Dadoune, QRM striker, two days before the meeting.
“A team that doesn’t look like much”
Le Havre remains on three consecutive draws and needs a point to finally start its season. The latest, this weekend against the red lantern Nancy (1-1). At the edge of the Channel, there too, it almost seems that this HAC-QRM is not a derby. “It is sure that we must materialize, especially against Quevilly which is just next door”, notes Le Havre player Quentin Cornette. But a few hours before the match, we do not feel the atmosphere, the atmosphere of a derby surrounded by a historic rivalry.
We are used to playing all matches as if they were derbies – Ottman Dadoune, QRM striker
Le Havre coach Paul Le Guen, champion of France on several occasions with Lyon in the 2000s, knows well what a derby means. He slipped a few words laudatory on his next opponent. “It’s a team that doesn’t look good, an intelligent team. They are real compliments in my mouth”, he said. At the time, it would have been difficult to see him make his remarks against the Saint-Etienne rival.
- HAC-QRM it will be to follow live and in full on France Bleu Normandie from 8 p.m. with François Manoury and Bradley de Souza in the comments.
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