While Montpellier ended a long drought last Sunday by winning in Metz (1-0), MHSC coach Michel Der Zakarian hopes to continue this momentum. For the clash on Wednesday against Olympique de Marseille, he expects the public at La Paillade to play their role.
Michel Der Zakarian needs the 12th man on Wednesday. While the Montpellier team has just returned to success and ended a bad series of six games without a win, last Sunday, with their 1-0 victory on the Metz pitch, it was against an Olympique de Marseille in good shape that they will play their last match of the year, this Wednesday (9 p.m.), before a winter break which will allow them to recharge their batteries.
Against the Phocéens, with four victories in a row and a good rise in the standings (6th tied with RC Lens and 4 points off the podium), and always well helped by their away supporters, the Héraultais must confirm the changeover in their Mosson stadium.
And at a press conference this Tuesday, Michel Der Zakarian tried to warm up his audience by issuing a simple challenge to his supporters: turn off the noise coming from the Marseille parking lot, often very noisy, and from the Marseille supporters scattered in the Mosson.
“I hope that the public will be with us. They must not be against us. We are playing at home. Even if there will be Marseille people, ours must shout louder. It’s up to us to make the right match to give them a nice Christmas present,” said the MHSC technician
“Against the big guys, the players are always in good spirits”
If facing Marseillais in form the men of Der Zakarian will try to achieve a good performance, with the help of their public, the Montpellier coach still wanted to reassure and show confidence by recalling that his team often raised its level of play against the big teams: “I know that for matches against big teams, the players are always in good spirits. They want to play it, to win it. These are matches against small teams that we take it lightly.”
SIEM, with Julien Landry in Montpellier
2023-12-19 15:11:19
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