In the wake of his incredible home defeat against Pau at the end of March, Amiens SC totally and definitively unscrewed in April. Without a hat-trick from Louis Mafouta, the score would even have been completely blank on the offensive level. Regardless, the training of Omar Daf demoralized the entire club environment. Decryption.
Concarneau-Troyes, insults to football
A little over 180 minutes of play, no goals scored and above all only one real opportunity. Faced with Concarneau and Troyes, two teams who are struggling to maintain their position and who have not won any of their last 18 combined matches (11 for Concarneau, 7 for Troyes), Amiens SC has certainly hit rock bottom. In Brittany, Amiens offered a parody of the match, with the stupid expulsion of Gaël Kakuta and the serious knee injury ofAndy Carroll, finishing the match on the wrong foot – so that his team is not double numerical inferiority. At La Licorne, false in Aubois, Omar Daf’s men went through the encounter like ghosts, all facing a trembling opponent who was more limited than ever. Enough to attract the justified wrath of its own supporters.
Quevilly, Mafouta madness, collective nothingness
In the heart of a week with three matches against bottom-of-the-table teams, Amiens SC relied on the sole Louis Mafouta so as not to sink on the Quevilly field. Without response in the game, eaten up in the duels and completely absent in the aerial domain, the Amiens nevertheless led at half-time thanks to the express hat-trick from their attacker. But unable to hold on to this advantage, as unexpected as it was undeserved, Omar Daf’s troops sank definitively in the second half. After a reduction in the gap for Kalifa Coulibaly, at the heart of yet another imbroglio a year earlier – with an aborted arrival in the last hours of the winter transfer window, Antoine Batisse took advantage of the general apathy in Régis Gurtner’s penalty area to equalize ten minutes from time. In the end, Amiens could even consider themselves happy to leave Normandy with a point, even if the scenario proved frustrating.
Dunkirk, Yassine not the level for Amiens?
Three days before Kalifa Coulibaly, another player refused by Amiens SC had scored, this time at the Unicorn. Failed a few months earlier during a detection, Gessime Yassine took his revenge by completing the superb collective movement of Dunkirk, synonymous with victory for the Northerners. The fault lies with an Amiens attack that remains as amorphous and incapable of really worrying Mohamed Koné, the last rampart of the USLD. Enough to extend a little further the series of matches without a victory or even a goal scored. To find traces of a victory at the Unicorn, we must go back to January 23, 2024, on the occasion of a short success against Annecy (1-0). That’s almost 100 days without success at home.
Guingamp, efficiency is lacking
Finally, Amiens SC’s least bad match of the month is undoubtedly the very first, at Guingamp, on April 6. However, the first act was anything but successful, especially after Sebastien Corchia left due to injury. Asphyxiated, constantly pushed back into their own penalty area, the Amiens could count on an inspired Régis Gurtner to stay in the match. And while the debates were balanced from the hour mark, Louis Mafouta and Gaël Kakuta were sorely lacking in effectiveness to hold the match in check.
Photo credits: Baptiste Fernandez/Icon Sport
Summary of the month:
Guingamp – Amiens: 0-0
Concarneau – Amiens: 0-0
Amiens – Dunkirk: 0-1
QRM – Amiens: 3-3 (Mafouta *3)
Amiens – Troyes: 0-0
