OXYGEN THAT STICKS THE EMERS OF HOPE
“Optimism is as vital to you as the oxygen you breathe. And if you don't create the oxygen you need yourself, you're done, because everyone is looking for it, and no one give in.” Frédéric DARD (my master in 'healing' my self-esteem wounds) – ASSE
The Final Countdown by Micheline (from the account): Updated at 02.11.24 – MAINTAIN -20 POINTS “Ah well there you go, kids. There, you made me happy! You know me, I know nothing about football. But it still seemed to me that it wasn't so bad, for once. And then Kiss Cool double-effect: A full stadium, and 3 points, that will boost morale in my Recipes Column!!! So we continue like this. Finally… after the Derby!!».
Hello Groupies!
Your cowboy @JossRandall42 is back for his 295th column, after ASSE-RCSA on Saturday November 2.
“I admit, I had a hard time not you…”, that he sang the Grand Serge in his marvelous Javanaise! Well yes, I admit it, on Saturday, I was not very optimistic when I went to the Cauldron. Marked by the previous weekend no doubt, without going so far as to say that I was as happy as someone waiting in the living room of a cancer specialist with his x-rays under his arm, I was in any case neither reassured nor optimistic. Especially since I had in mind the memory of a Strasbourg team that was much more impressive offensively than what I saw on Saturday. But hey, I had the excuse that lately at ASSE, the atmosphere was sticky like a fellatio by an addict at the Coteaux du Layon.
But above all I made the mistake of not having enough confidence in the excellent @pguillou42, who had seen everything before the others, and announced this victory to us in Monday's @SainteNightClub!! What a Talent this Pat is, he's the Clint Eastwood of the SNC. Thus confirming that the world is divided into two categories. Those who know and feel football. And those who dig.
Well, okay, lately, prono-wise, I'm digging it, it's okay eh, everyone has the right to some slack!! ????
CHAPTER 1: TACTICAL MOVE AND WINNING MOVE
After SCO-ASSE, he was not happy JOSS_RAN_DALL'OGLIO !! No, as Coluche said, when his head is buried in his shoulders it’s because he’s not happy!! We know the Cévenol, not the type to have a shifty gaze like a brown trout between the fingers of a Parkinson's fisherman. The walls had trembled, and his words and especially his eyes – it seemed – reflected as much tenderness as those of a Siamese cat having just had its tail caught in an armored door.
Except that… my Olivier, it's all well and good to fall on your players like the pox on low clergy, rightly so for some, but you just forgot to say that in ANGERS, you are the first to have done a bad match. Bad choice of players, bad tactical approach. You had criticized your players in particular for playing “too high”, like “in the quarter”… But are you sure that only they had decided that? A doubt my cock.
Saturday against RCSA, my CRÈVE_LA_DALL'OGLIOyou didn't have a good match, you had a very good match.
The Strasbourg side will be able to whine and try to explain their poor match by blaming the opponent who “put down the bus”, a less elegant way of saying that we played the whole match “low block” (Hello Florentin and Paul!!), I just want to tell them that it's a way of playing, if it's well mastered. Not everyone can be PSG. Yes, ASSE agreed to leave the ball, to defend all together with tight lines and by strengthening the axis, with a slightly new role for EKWAH_MY GUEULE_WHAT_IS_CE_QU’SHE_HAS_MY_GUEULEvery often going back down between the two Centrals.
And it worked well, and for the moment, it is probably the best strategy, profitable in any case to beat, even if it means suffering, teams that are supposedly very offensive, but who only like transition and space.
So I want to say: BRAV’ODO! Well done, and congratulations also to the players who knew how to apply the strategy throughout the game, this time with entrants who were in continuity and not in a break. Players who will have been able to defend together on the one hand, with tight lines, but also take advantage of the transitions to score two goals and create 2 or 3 other very favorable situations.
But to be complete, it is always appropriate to read the quality of a performance in light of the quality of adversity. And here, I still highlight a very disappointing RCSA, which after a start to the Hard Rock season was already announced by some as a possible challenger for the TOP 5. They are far from it. And even if they had some very favorable situations in the first half, they will only have confirmed the cliché “to dominate is not to play”, and that possession is not everything (65% in the first half -time), and that situations must be transformed, otherwise you remain forever a powerless aesthete. All the craftsmen in France and Navarre will tell you that at the end of the project, you have to invoice, otherwise you will quickly go out of business.
As for the highly anticipated NANASI (minor), about whom there was so much controversy this summer around a possible arrival at ASSE, well he went more unnoticed on Saturday than a boil on Monica Bellucci's nose.
CHAPTER 2: WHEN IN THE MIDDLE NO MORE FLOWS (FINALLY)
Our ASSE had a very good match on Saturday. The kind of game where we would almost be tempted to give everyone a 10, like in the school of fans, in the euphoria of the moment.
Even if I do not hide the fact that I did not find the services of YVANN_LE_FRANC_MAÇONwho for his return will not have made us forget BRICE_DENNIS_APPIAHand to a lesser extent, a little disappointment also in the match of BOAKYE_PROFIT_THE_CRIMEfrom whom I expected better after his interesting short last performances. But as far as he is concerned, I think it also comes from who he had right behind him.
But if we had to remember one very positive point, it is that a fairly efficient environment is taking shape, and we see that it is two-thirds different from that at the start of the season.
In any case ODO understood that he no longer had to remove SHEEP (sorry, but contractually, I am required by Boss_Alesque to put at least one valve that my Hool's @JeremChatonnier can understand, however poor it may be). I really like this guy. Heads-up display, torso rotations that would give a matador a stiff neck, average but assured technique, lots of activity, a great shot. This should be enough to permanently relegate our MOUEFFEK_LA_POLICEstill a little fatty (but said well!) on the substitutes' bench. Where is – for the moment – its true place. Besides, by the way, it was not the weekend of our “nuggets” in the Center, since I saw that in N3, AMOUGOU_DE_LUXE and his friends had a defrosted one. But for the latter I will not budge, it is not his talent that is in question, but his overuse.
We have already talked about it above, but this somewhat new role for EKWAH_MY GUEULE_WHAT_IS_CE_QUE_SHE_HAS_MY_GUEULEfurther down in a lower block, seems to suit him better than a wrestler's pumps, he who was coming out of two middle-class matches.
But the very good surprise is above all the return to light of BOUCHOUARI_POTTER ! First of all, I don't remember seeing him finish a match that he had started for a very long time. Proof that it seems to be going better between his two ears but also in the legs and the rest. It's simple, as a friend often says, it seems like he's changed so much that it's easier to recognize him when you don't know him! ????
But be careful, let's stay calm, it's just a match. I remain impassive (besides, no one is required to be impassive, right?). But if he had the good idea to reproduce this kind of performance over 10 to 15 matches in a row, we could almost wonder if he would not then be our best “recruit” of the transfer window.
In short, even if all this is still young, ASSE and ODO have perhaps found some certainties in the middle, and it would seem as abra as it is abrasive to me to change that now, regardless of all the “ists” of X who see the two “nuggets” of the Center with the eyes of Love.
Remember that you can't make an ugly man without breaking both.
IN CONCLUSION: IT'S STILL JUST A LITTLE REASSURING. AND THAT'S ALL FOR NOW
After this ASSE-RCSA, we can affirm that if it is not yet solid, it has already ceased to be fluid. We are starting to maintain the right viscosity, we must continue to turn the sauce.
However, I am not the type to one day burn what I liked yesterday, nor vice versa, even if it is a very widespread trend on social networks. It's not this simple match that will immediately make me change my Fusy Yama of the poles, as they say in Japan!
This match brings a stone to the building of the construction of maintenance (and 3 points for my Micheline too) and we can begin to imagine maintenance in L1 with this environment, and this offensive animation. But I'm not giving up, we'll have to strengthen behind because our limited guys won't always be able to be at 185%, they'll get injured, they'll be suspended… so Grandpa Larry if you hear me, I'm counting on you to help me correct that to the bitter Catho D'Hiver. I will be so grateful to you that you won't know where to put it!!!
After attention, at the bottom of the ranking the vice tightens as my naughty Banker @jupra42 says. All the teams in “our” championship win, including against the supposed 'big' teams, apart from Montpellier. Here we are, play-offs, but only 3 points from 9th place. All it would take is a victory among the Fumiers de mon Rakouste next Sunday and Hop!!! (Okay, we have the right to mess around anyway, right, or else??!!)
But let's not shy away from our pleasure, because it was a beautiful match, a beautiful result and more generally, a very beautiful day, because I have spared you (as Rainier said to his poor lady) the fabulous atmosphere of the Chaudron, a again, which already makes you want to be in ASSE-OM to see what it will look like with the balconies!! And an unforgettable Croziflette evening two hours before the match with friends from the Gang Des Binouzes. As my Stacho says: Clean!!!
