By scoring the achievement of the break (0-2, 46th) just after the restart against Sporting-Club de l’Ouest Angers, Sunday March 12, the Dutch trigger of Toulouse FC found the net for the tenth time, in twenty-seven L1 matches, while there are still eleven days to go. A good omen before the arrival at the Stadium, this Saturday 18 (5 p.m.), of the Dogues de Lille.
Casually, he has just passed a milestone: that of the two-digit number. And from 10 for a N°9, it starts to do as the other would say… While we will recall that history was far from being won at the start of the season: scorer on the first and third days, the goleador Dutch had indeed had to wait until the fifteenth to turn on the ignition.
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Since then, he threads them like pearls. Or almost: last finisher in Auxerre [J18]doubled against Strasbourg [J20] and equalizer (1-1, 16e) in front of Troyes [J21]third director against Rennes [J23]flash opener (3e) ahead of Marseilles [J24] and, thus last weekend, he closed the scoring at the start of the second act (0-2, 46e). In first intention, from the left, taking Bernardoni on the wrong foot. However, he had not been able to beat back his recovery from the head in first (22e).
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All Dallinga: we can’t see it, but it crashes. It is his Flemish compatriot Brecht Dejaegere who speaks of it best. “People sometimes say that he is absent from the game, but he is crucial in our animation by fixing the defenders and in fact freeing up space for us. His duty is a whole lot of things… Today (Editor’s note : this Sunday), Thijs did his job very well.”
Montanier, Madame Soleil!
Philippe Montanier, who nods his head, tells us one last anecdote: “At half-time, I spoke to him. He had to be patient, not get discouraged because he was well positioned on the crosses however, not necessarily well served. I told him to persevere; you know the rest. I talk a lot of nonsense, laughs the coach, but not only … “
