In Roudourou, En Avant Guingamp wants to take on Caen in the Coupe de France

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The reception at Stade Malherbe Caen (Sunday at 5:30 p.m.) in the Coupe de France could have been an incredible opportunity to close 2024 with a sixth consecutive victory.

After their defeat on the Bastia pitch last week (3-1), the En Avant Guingamp players will want to release their frustration, get off to a good start and offer their supporters one last victory before the end-of-year celebrations. , for the last of 2024. Also, it has been a long time since the EAG has gone beyond the 5th round of the Coupe de France.

Caen, Amiens, Rennes…

“It’s a competition that is close to our hearts, which has always been important for this club. It's important for us to do well in this competition and to go as far as possible,” said Sylvain Ripoll, happy with the seriousness of his players, at the end of November after the big victory obtained in the Côtes-d'Armor in the last round of the competition. After Serquigny-Nassandres (0-5), Regional 2 club, then Dinan-Léhon (1-4), National 2 team, here is En Avant Guingamp opposed this time to a team of its rank, Stade Malherbe Caen .

A new scheduled confrontation between two teams who have continued to clash in recent years. The Norman club, which joined En Avant in Ligue 1 at the start of the 2014/2015 season, a year after the rise of the “red and black”, was relegated with the Breton team in the summer of 2019. With 47 duels on the clock, SM Caen is one of the three opponents most faced by En Avant Guingamp in its history (17 wins, 17 draws, 13 defeats).

It was also the Normans who eliminated the EAG in Roudourou at the start of 2021 during the 4th round of the Coupe de France (1-3).

The following year, one round later, Amiens took out Guingamp, once again at Roudourou (2-3). Before last January, Stade Rennais came to impose itself on the banks of Trieux and prevented Guingamp from once again going beyond the 5th round (0-2).

At home, everything is better

Although En Avant has conceded three of its last four eliminations in the Coupe de France to Roudourou, it is in a den where they found the recipe that the Guingampais will play their last match of 2024.

Where they remain on a series of three victories in a row in Ligue 2 (Amiens, 3-0; Grenoble, 3-0; Ajaccio, 1-0).

But before the misstep against Pau (0-1), it was against Stade Malherbe Caen that Dylan Louiserre's teammates had signed a new victory at home. A 3-1 success to which Jacques Siwé, Hugo Picard and Taylor Luvambo had contributed.

A success which allows the EAG to have a real psychological advantage over their opponents, especially since the last three duels between the two teams were won by the Costa Ricans.

A few days before Christmas, and while tickets at €2 have been put on sale for subscribers (€5 for non-subscribers), En Avant Guingamp has all the cards in hand to offer its supporters a nice gift under the tree.

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