At the start of the season, they wanted to play the leading roles, and now they have to fight to keep them in L2. Caen and the HAC are embarked on the same galley when they meet again this Monday for act 2 of the Norman derby. Both teams have the same number of points (34). That’s only six more than the 18th.
Their safety margin has been considerably reduced in recent weeks, and Saturday’s results (success for Guingamp and Dunkirk, draw for Pau at Grenoble) have only tightened the positions at the bottom of the table.
When I don’t know, I shut my mouth. Paul Le Guen
On the one hand, the Havres remain on two defeats. The other, the Caen have gleaned only one victory in the last twelve days. Should we therefore see similarities in their respective setbacks? ” I don’t want to get into a comparison game, answers HAC coach Paul Le Guen. I like to talk about what I know. However, I do not know the Caen club well. I am not placed to analyze its problems. I already have a little restraint in talking about what I think I know. So when I don’t know, I shut my mouth. »
The painful memory of the first leg
« We are living a somewhat similar season with Caen. They have a good squad too, but that doesn’t mean they can do it., observes midfielder Victor Lekhal. We’re going to go with the fangs. It’s going to be a committed match. We really want to take the points to see something other than behind us. »
The Ciel and Marine will perhaps also be animated by a spirit of revenge after the cruel defeat conceded in the first leg (1-2). The Caennais had won in the last minutes on a penalty awarded for a non-existent fault by Gibaud on Gioacchini. « This first leg hurt us, recognizes Victor Lekhal. We would have deserved at least the draw. We still have it across the throat. This defeat put us in the back of the head. It was complicated afterwards. We will try to remedy all that. »
Caen – HAC, to follow this Monday from 8:40 p.m. on France Bleu Normandie
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