After a complicated start to the season following its double relegation, Amiens AC was able to get their heads out of the water to afford a great end of the championship that has hoped for the future. The reception of the leader and neighbor Salouël-Saleux is a great opportunity to confirm the upturn.
This Sunday, Amiens AC receives RC Salouël-Saleux on the occasion of the second derby of the metropolis of the season in R3, the first having been won by visitors to the weekend. A spirit of revenge that animates Karim Hamdane and his men, they who had been beaten on the wire despite a meeting that the Amiens coach had deemed balanced: “We still have it across the throat. We lose in the final moments of the match on an individual error. We never really digested this match. We are keen to make a result this weekend. »» According to him, the opposing success was played on small details and perhaps in experience, in experience. But he remembers a positive point: “We had put them enormously in difficulty by scoring three constructed goals. We will have to try faster getting into the match faster, because we had a little time in the first half before putting ourselves in it. »» As a symbol, this difficulty at start -up, the ACA had global in its season. Descended from R1 to R3, both sportingly and administratively, the return to the field in August was difficult, so that the club had chained four entrance losses: « We knew that it would be hard at the beginning to start on a positive impulse. We had set ourselves with the objective of bringing back a positive dynamic, to end up at the top of the table. »»
An end of the season in cannonball
The machine ended up starting and even worked very well, since the Amiens club is, three days before the end of the championship, fourth. The last outings were convincing, since, Of the last six games, the ACA has five successes, including three on rivers scoreswhich allows him to be the second best attack on the hen, in front of the Salouas leader (53 goals scored against 50). A series of positive end of the season which could almost give regret to the Samarian coach: “In view of our workforce at the start of the season, We knew we had enough qualities to be able to play the climb. But we also knew where we left. For next season, it is auspicious. We had set this goal, which is to be able to play the climb the following season. It was much more reasonable and in line with our situation. We hope to be able to continue working with this workforce, reshaping it a little and being able to be ambitious. »»
We still have the ambition to finish in the first three.
Karim Hamdane, Amiens AC coach
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But before thinking about tomorrow, Amiens Athletic Club wants to think of the present. Because if the maintenance is acquired, This is the podium that the club aims at the end of the year 2024-2025 : “We still have the ambition to finish in the first three, even if it will not only depend on us. »» With five lengths late on Saint-Quentin (B), current third, the task is actually difficult and it will be necessary to win the last three games hoping for a maximum of success for the Isarians at the same time. Like their weekend opponents, the Amiens are still in the race to win the Somme Cup, since they will have to play a semi-final soon. Unlike RC2s, on the other hand, which must deal with a busy infirmary, The shape of the group of Karim Hamdane is beautifulas much from a physical point of view as from a mental point of view: “There is not too much fatigue. We set goals together and we want to achieve them. We still have motivation. »» After returning from almost hell, the ACA offers itself the right to live a thrilling end of the season, Starting with a derby which should hold all its promises and in which the opponent also finds a big issue there.
Regional 3, 20th day:
Amiens AC (4th, 31 pts)-RC Salouël-Saleux (1st, 43 pts)
Sunday, May 11 at 3 p.m., Stade Jean Bouin (Amiens)
Simon Vasseur
Photo credit: Kevin Devigne – Gazettesports.fr
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