Didier Bigard did not appreciate ASSE's performance last Sunday against Nantes. He also questions the absence of reinforcements ten days before the end of the transfer window, while the Greens are still in the red zone.
Even without his unconditional support, Geoffroy-Guichard showed a lot of leniency against Nantes. The sides who have accustomed us to more severity did not show an impatience which was nevertheless patent. A few rumbles, but nothing more and it was not until half-time that the Stéphanois understood that they were not at all up to their audience. Nothing bad and if Eirik Horneland dotted the i's, we didn't feel a north wind blowing which would have ended up with a cold for Appiah, Nadé or Pétrot caught in drafts in first gear.
It wasn't Anthony Lopes who should have been whistled
Perhaps these and others have to thank Anthony-Lopes for drawing all the attention from the stands to him. Even if he tore up his Olympian card with a page turned without honor, he will remain an eternal neighbor and not the least. Between his kamikaze outings, a few high-flying saves and a gone label claimed all these years, he reminded his new coach that OL, Nantes' next opponent, was forever the Greens' great rival. A not very current observation.
The ranking requires us to be more factual and in the championship that ASSE is contesting, the opponents are Montpellier, Le Havre, Rennes and Nantes which therefore carried out a very honorable operation on Sunday by not giving up ground, as was noted Antoine Kombouaré. Magnanimous, he did not seek to add more, welcoming the “deserved” draw obtained by Saint-Étienne “even if it was obtained through a personal exploit”. In one sentence, he summed up an entire chess game which held Horneland in check, a tactical lesson expected since the element of surprise no longer works in favor of the Norwegian.
Low block or not, the expression would have amused or irritated Frédéric Antonetti who liked to quibble journalists caught in fashionable formulas “Ah play higher, you like that but what does that mean? It all depends on the nature of the match…” It all also depends on the quality of the players! Even if they waited a long time for their opponents, the Canaries were also able to press them in their camp by causing errors including that of Appiah on the opening score or of Nadé. The absence of Ekwah cannot explain everything, not that the attackers try their luck so little like Davitashvilli from whom we only remember one blocked recovery. It's meager as the assessment of a midfielder where Mouton is nothing more than a very average player as soon as he forgets that his game must rhyme simplicity and efficiency. We will avoid shooting the one Ekwah had called a sniper. N'Guessan missed an opportunity but he will learn that in Ligue 1, we will not watch him play like in training.
-We come back to the essential, the quality of a group that Olivier Dall'Oglio called to strengthen, to the point of paying with its place for its frankness, which Horneland admitted, with the tip of a tongue subject to translation, have to flesh out. Cardona was the soap opera of the winter for 500,000 euros and perhaps a few damaged egos. It's not easy for those who crossed out his name this summer to come back with an eraser to sign it. No problem if at the same time we had recruits. But no. More time and points lost.
Didier Bigard
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