Five, even six descents at the end of the championship, reform obliges*. If there was a season where you had to avoid getting into trouble, this was it. But Chartres, less equipped than in previous years, despite an announced budget of around 2.7 million euros, has not managed to escape the pitfalls. Sport with a start to the championship very far from aspirations (only three victories in the first ten days). Financial with a deficit sanctioned, at the beginning of December, by a withdrawal of five points by the DNCG, and a situation that remains worrying.
At the time of the start of 2023 on the Poissy course, this Saturday January 7, the CCF therefore occupies a very awkward position: 12th place, five lengths behind Saint-Pryvé, the first team sailing above the waterline. If the appeal presented by the club to the DNCG is not successful, it is already acquired, the Chartrains will have to fight until the end to save their skin in the National 2 and protect themselves from a fiasco. While the climb was in the sights before the start of the season…
Get 1.65 points per game to reach 38
“Sometimes you need to be lucid to revise the target downwards. We are aware of the situation… Maybe it wasn’t the challenge we dreamed of, but we have to accept it and it can give us just as much pride”, confides coach Pierre-Yves David, who certainly didn’t imagine such a hassle when he took over from Jean-Pierre Papin, who left for OM in early November.
“We are clearly below what the N2 requires,” analyzes coach Pierre-Yves David
The challenge of the CCF during the remaining seventeen games, more than half a season, will therefore be to collect the points necessary to keep it. If we look back at the last three full years (2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20), he will probably need between 35 and 39 total to renew his lease in N2. Over those three seasons, an average of 35.6 effective points allowed him to finish in 11th place and an average of 36.75 points in 10th place. But, out of twelve events, sometimes 34 was enough. And, once again, 39 no…
The Chartrains therefore have every interest in aiming at least for the vote of 38. by 5 points). This would represent, for example, a record of 8 wins and 4 draws for 5 losses during the seventeen games to be played. Far from being a mission won in advance…
Pierre Yves David says:
“Rather than talking about points, we stick to the idea that we have to leave six teams behind,” says Pierre-Yves David. Our job is to hire him. In our discourse, we are centered on the means to be implemented and on the rigor in the expression of these means. »
And yet, it is obvious, the Chartrains will have to demonstrate their regularity in 2023 if they do not want to be in the wrong car on the evening of June 3, the date of the curtain lowering.
“We will have to score points, score points, score points,” proclaims “PYD”. When I arrived in November 2019 in Fougères (N3), we were last. Of the next nine games, we lost only once. We haven’t won often either, but when you’re at the bottom and you score points regularly, you end up coming up. In Chartres, the rescue operation begins tonight…
* The move from four groups of 16 to four groups of 14 next season (not counting the L1 move from 20 to 18 teams) induces a total of 22 descents from N2 to N3: i.e. the bottom five of each group thus like the two worst elevenths.
Shooting between punished
If received a 5-point retirement inflicted by the DNCG, C’Chartres Football attacks 2023 a Poissy formation from which 7 units have been removed. Yvelines’ team marked the time before the break after a sensational start to the season (six wins in seven games).
But Walid Aïchour’s players would still be in third place if they hadn’t been sanctioned by the disciplinary committee: 3-0 defeat on the green carpet against Rouen (match won 2-1) with four penalty points for false medical certificates. It is therefore on a client, led by two scorers, Cheikh Touré (9) and Amadou Konaté (8), that Chartres goes. A CCF that had closed 2022 on the knees with a draw (2-2) in Rennes then a defeat (2-0) at home against Blois.
Perhaps due to the heavy pace of work imposed by Pierre-Yves David upon his arrival to make up for a physical deficit. Ten days after training resumed, the Euréliens could show better form, waiting for the soon hoped peak. But they will have to compose without Kévin Bru (adductor tendon operation) and Samuel Noireau-Dauriat (shoulder dislocation), whose returns are scheduled for February. Slightly low, Loïc Gagnon, will participate in an internal N2-N3 opposition this Sunday January 8th.
Poissy (Yvelines, Léo-Lagrange stadium), this Saturday 7 January at 6pm. C’Chartres Football: Crépel, Barry – Palbrois, Lemarié, D. Fofana, Faty, A. Fofana, Archimbaud, B. Fofana, Chantôme, Traoré, Haddadou, Diakhaby, Picot, Gouletquer, Arnaud.
Franck Thebault
