On paper, Patrice Garande had a pretty much perfect day this Saturday. His team regained victory, doubled their opponent for the day in the standings, took advantage of the missteps of their direct competitors. Better: it was imposed on two great achievements of two players he had chosen to revive. Everyone wept for the absence of “Bibiche” and was astonished to see Healey start, and now Van den Boomen and the Englishman changed the match.
At the end of the meeting, the Toulouse coach did not fail to deploy the usual vocabulary: in the “behavior”, in “the attitude”, his group “did not let go”, wanted ” “. Something to delight the camp of pragmatists, always quick to recall that Ligue 2 requires a little more than good play and good feelings. The precious result of this weekend proves them right and relegates, in fact, the tactical considerations to the background.
TACTICAL ERRANCES THAT PERSIST
It would be wrong, however, to reduce the question of the game background to pure folklore, to a whim to support. Over time, a team’s success depends on its tactical and collective consistency – and not the other way around. Alas, the very sad animation of the 4-3-3 on Saturday brought a new dose of uncertainty. After 12 days and more than three months of competition, this TFC is still capable of purges similar to the inaugural TFC-Dunkirk.
Patrice Garande has for this season a workforce largely able to go up. He had the great merit of giving this club a mental strength that we had not seen for years, he was able to create the conditions to make Tèf a legitimate candidate for the podium. It remains to give it more consistency, otherwise it might never get out of this frustrating in-between in which it is maintained. A victory in Nancy on Tuesday could finally push TFC into the top 5 – where it’s supposed to be.
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