The téféciste coach will again not be able to count on his left-back Issiaga Sylla, this Saturday afternoon February 12 (3 p.m.), for the trip to Valenciennes FC in the North. While the championship’s co-scorer, Rhys Healey, has served his match suspension. And that remains the uncertainty on the beginnings or not of Junior Flemmings.
It’s the little corner of gray sky in the purple, azure blue horizon since last Saturday and the convincing victory against Dijon (4-1). A hoped-for moment for this weekend, Sylla’s return must be postponed. “His injury is not progressing in the right direction, Philippe Montanier told us Thursday noon, Issiaga will need a little more time than expected. He will not be fit for the meeting in Valenciennes.”
Remember that the Guinean international had returned from the African Cup of Nations with a psoas muscle injury. “Benin at the start, further specifies the Toulouse coach, but it is slow to heal.”
Two solutions are available to the former Real Sociedad, who returns to a club with which he discovered Ligue 1 on the bench in the summer of 2009 after his time at Boulogne-sur-Mer: Moussa Diarra or Bafodé Diakite. The first is central training, the second more accustomed to playing on the right flank. Since the absence of the incumbent, the two have alternated: Diarra against Pau, Diakité in front of Nancy, Diarra in Bastia, Diakité recently against DFCO. Answer Saturday, at 2 p.m. when the team compositions are announced, one hour before kick-off.
Don’t be late
Otherwise, the other notable absence is, as since January 15, that of captain Brecht Dejaegere (right calf strain). Even if the Belgian is on the right path. “He’s fine, notes Ph.M., the protocol is followed; we’ll do a review within a fortnight.” The duration of unavailability having actually been estimated between 6 to 8 weeks.
Quidin fine, of the (only) recruit of the winter transfer window, the Jamaican winger Junior Flemmings: is he applying?
“You have to see, replies Philippe Montanier. In any case, he has regained normal physical condition, however, now it is a question of integrating him into the collective. As he had also left for selection, he was able to work little with us, acclimatize to our game. I’ll decide tomorrow (Friday night) if I take him into the squad.”
Wait and see.
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