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Olympic Nimes
Goalscorer Wade. Eliminated by Grenoble in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France (1-0), Nîmes Olympique will not play any official match this weekend. So, to keep up the pace, Frédéric Bompard organized an internal opposition this morning at the Costières stadium. The staff had decided on mixed teams by mixing starters and substitutes. A shortened match since the second period lasted only 20 minutes. “We had a very big week of training. On a week without a match, we must be around 30 km traveled, there we are at 40 km so it was starting to suck., justifies the Nîmes coach who wanted to avoid injuries. During this confrontation, only one goal was scored through Paul Wade, who was on trial this week. ” He returned to play with the Nice reserve, concerning him we take the time to reflectcontinues the coach who would have liked to see more goals, it was good in the preparation with the ball, we remained structured. I also remember that we had a hard time finishing. » Doucouré, Thomasen and Labonne are the three players who did not participate in this match. The Dane has completed his rehabilitation and will resume with the group on Monday. Regarding the Lorient side, he will be just to be able to face Niort and Guingamp. Better than at the Bastide, Frédéric Bompard would still like to take advantage of the Costières lawn to train there. The operating agreement stopping at the end of January, Rani Assaf is in negotiation with the City on this subject. The Crocos are resting this weekend and will return to training on Monday to prepare for the important reception of Niort on Saturday January 28 at 7 p.m. Note that the Crocos will host Saint-Étienne on Monday February 20 at 8:45 p.m. for the shock of the 24th day.
use
Returning after a cruciate ligament rupture, Lou Derisbourg was called up for this friendly tournament (Photo Archives Anthony Maurin) • Anthony MAURIN
Seven missing in the Alps. This afternoon, the USAM headed for Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (Savoie) to take part in the friendly tournament in the Alps. A competition with four teams where the Nîmes will play two matches. The first tonight at 8 p.m. against Montpellier and the second tomorrow at 3 p.m. against Dijon or Chambéry. It is a question of finding the rhythm before the official resumption of the season with a quarter-final of the Coupe de France in Aix, on February 3. Among the 16 players selected for this trip to the Alps, seven pros are missing. Sanad, Hesham and Baznik are at the World Cup, Sissoko, Kamtchop-Baril, Tesio and Demaille, hit in the elbow, are injured. Thus, Ljubomir Vranjes completed his squad by calling young people from the training center Guéric Vincent, Baptiste Joblon, Clément Esparon, Rémi Peyre (right winger), Lou Derisbourg and the two goalkeepers Louis Gouaze and Thibaut Le Bourhis. Gallego and Rebichon, who learned the day before yesterday that they would not be extended at the end of the trip, have indeed been summoned. Note that USAM will play a third friendly match on Wednesday January 25 at Parnassus, at 7:30 p.m. against the Spaniards of Granollers. Admission will be free.
The Nîmes group selected: Gouaze, Le Bourhis; Rebichon, Vincent, Acquevillo, Minel, Esparon, Derisbourg, Konradsson, Tobie, Gibernon, Peyre, Poyet, Gallego, Joblon, Dupuy.
RCN
Guillaume Aguilar, manager of the RCN, the president Steeve Calligaro and the administrative director Alexandre Salles • Corentin Corger
Aguilar takes stock. During a press conference organized this morning at the Drop, Guillaume Aguilar, manager of the RCN, took the opportunity to take stock of the start of the season and a first part deemed positive. “We intend to recover our first place. That’s what we want. To have tasted the first place, it fed the appetite of the players », comments the person concerned while his team, second, moves this Sunday at 3:15 p.m. to Rumilly, ninth in the standings. The best defense in the championship is deprived of two players until the end of the season: Charles Robbe (crusaders) and the right pillar Paul Oliver. In trouble with his neck, he could even be forced to put an end to his career. With the injury of another right pillar, Revazi Tsiklauri, the RCN has called in a medical joker. This is the Georgian Nicolaz Kardava (21) who arrives from Aurillac for six months. Everything should be settled next week. During this press point, the Nîmes coach replied concerning a possible rise this season in National, “We have to go step by step. The objective is to go to the final phase. Then we will go to win all the matches. If we win the right, we will go but it is not an objective in itself. If we want to go up, we have to build a National team. »
The XV Nîmes for Rumilly: Duprat, Phalip, Barbet – Gely, Gonzalez – Vernier (cap.), Llabres, Kelly – Phillips, Sabbia – Lakafia, Roche, Guillimin, R.Pichard – S. Roche. Replacements: Marra, Nierat, Sparano, Roca, Barnerias, Chastaing, Bowman, Nouri, Demars.
Corentin Corger
