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Top 5: promoted in trouble – News

For their return to the elite, Ajaccio and Auxerre lost on the first day. Before them, other promoted distinguished themselves by struggling to start the championship. Here are their stories.

Auxerre (2022-2023?)

With five promotions to his CV, Jean-Marc Furlan is clearly the best coach in the world in the second division. It is then that it gets complicated since he went down with Troyes and Strasbourg. The Auxerre coach started this season by losing 4-1 to Lille. A sad record: no club had conceded two goals in less than three minutes since Toulouse, against Nantes, in 1993. AJA still lacks elements experienced in the elite to hope to maintain, especially in defense. And it has in Gaëtan Charbonnier the striker made in Furlan: monstrous in the second division, harmless in the first.

Strasbourg (2017-2018)

For its return to Ligue 1 UberEats® after ten years of absence, Strasbourg is experiencing a nightmare on the occasion of the first day of the 2017-2018 season. Lyon strike four times thanks to two braces from Mariano Diaz and Nabil Fekir. 4-0, without appeal. The good recruitment (Kenny Lala, Pablo Martinez, Nuno Da Costa, Jonas Martin) will take seven days to bear fruit. Nineteenth, the Alsatians will go back to the first part of the classification after successes against Rennes, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Paris before ensuring a quiet maintenance.

Dijon (2011-2012)

There is nothing more beautiful than a first time. Two counter-examples to this sentence: the sex life of your Community Manager and the first steps of Dijon Football Côte-d’Or in the first division. On August 7, 2011, the Burgundians receive Rennes. They line up Benjamin Corgnet, Younousse Sankharé and Daisuke Matsui, they are confident and full of energy. But they take 5-1 at home (Rennes goals from Féret, Montano, Boukari, Mangane and Tettey). Despite a series of good results in February, Dijon sank and won no more matches after March 25. Worst defense in the league. Patrice Carteron fired. The total.

Grenoble (2009-2010)

A defeat to start, it happens. Two defeats, it’s worrying. Three is problematic. Four is the crisis. And eleven? Well ask Grenoble: in 2009, the Isérois started their season with eleven consecutive losses. Really surprising that the team includes such brilliant players as Pierre Boya, Sandy Paillot, Jean Calvé and Jody Viviani. The potato gratin. Danijel Ljuboja’s 10 goals will not prevent the club from finishing in twentieth and last place. A year earlier, for his first season among the elite, the ex-promoted had however hung a solid 13th place and prestigious victories against Saint-Etienne, Monaco and PSG.

Arles-Avignon (2010-2011)

Francisco Pavón. Angelos Basinas. Camel Meriem. Sebastien Piocelle. Remy Cabella. Angelos Charisteas. In a reality parallel to the space-time different from ours, Arles-Avignon would have had a European workforce at the start of the 2010-2011 season. But these players were either too old or too young, and the mayonnaise never took. Sochaux won at home on the first day then Lens, Toulouse, Rennes, PSG, OM, Montpellier and Auxerre in turn took the three points against the promoted. Enough to jump off the Avignon bridge. The club’s first victory will only come on the twelfth day, against Caen, thanks to a double from the indestructible Kaba Diawara.

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