Nancy – Auxerre
This Saturday at 7 p.m.
A series of four defeats broken by the point taken at Bonal last Saturday, two of the best players of the team recovered from a long period of injury (Amine Bassi, Saliou Ciss), two meetings in a row at Marcel-Picot on the program after the last four out of five away matches and even the passage in front of the DNCG which went rather well… There are, finally, small positive signals in the news of the excessively gloomy ASNL for several weeks , until the wave of Covid which struck in the Hague Forest in early November.
Now, to act out of the crisis, to avoid a new risk of dismissal of coach Jean-Louis Garcia, this embryo of improvement must be confirmed until the winter break. From this Saturday until December 22, the ASNL leaves for a new series of four matches, including three at home, including the late match, the bonus match, against ESTAC on Tuesday.
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Le Bihan has scored more goals than all Nancy players combined!
“We did not set a goal of points, we set a goal of state of mind” explains the coach of the ASNL, “To always have the same attitude and the same commitment as Sochaux. When I hear Sochaux coach Omar Daf underline the impact we have made, I take that as a compliment ”.
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The first of the last four meetings of 2020 is heavy. This Saturday, the Marcel-Picot stadium, still behind closed doors, will see an AJA pass in submachine gun mode. The best attack in Ligue 2 which turns to more than 2 goals per game (29 achievements in 14 days) and which remains on a 6-0 against Niort. With the most prolific trigger of the championship in its ranks, Mickaël Le Bihan, who has already found the net 13 times to the delight of his trainer Jean-Marc Furlan, record holder for climbs in L1. Alone, Le Bihan has scored more this season than all the ASNL players put together (12 goals)!
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“We are not going to present ourselves as an expiatory victim”
In short, against the former club of Pablo Correa, the defensive challenge promises to be immense for the Nancy team, which has only kept its clean sheet once this season (0-2 at Paris FC in September) … Nancy will have to avoid individual errors, this time (ball lost by Séga Coulibaly in Sochaux for example), Nancy will also have to gain in offensive efficiency, after several missed chances of victory at Bonal in numerical superiority.
“We are not going to present ourselves as an expiatory victim” assures Jean-Louis Garcia, “Except in Clermont where we passed by, we never came across a team that has shown itself to be truly superior in the game, until there. We often ended up with regrets, that means that we have weapons, that should give us confidence for this great challenge against Auxerre ”. We must not waste any more as a certain Guy Roux would say.
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