If Goal! Football Club primarily deals with the news of certain elite teams, we have decided to give you a summary of what happened today in the other – less media-covered – part of France. soccer.
LOSC: Chevalier discusses a possible departure
Permanent starter at LOSC and recently called up to the Blues, Lucas Chevalier already knows he is very popular with a view to the transfer window. “To say that there are no clubs interested would be (23 years old) to lie,” he said on Canal+. I don't know if it's time, but I won't leave for the sake of leaving. It will depend on the club, on my career. It would be illogical to leave for a club where I don't play. »
Stade Brestois: Roy expected a better record in L1!
Large winner of FC Nantes yesterday at home (4-1), Stade Brestois reassured in Ligue 1 even if Éric Roy expected a better record. “From an accounting point of view, I sincerely thought that we would be able to do better,” he admitted at a press conference. But if I had been told at the start of the season that we would have 19 points in 15 matches and 13 in 6 of the Champions League, I would have signed. In the Championship, we must be able to do better in the second part but, overall, it remains a very good half of the season. And I would even say that the year 2024 is quite exceptional. I don't just remember the results, but also the emotions that we generated, that we transmitted to our audience. And even for us, in terms of emotions, it was quite exceptional. It's difficult to do better. »
OGC Nice: Digne almost signed!
Aston Villa left-back Lucas Digne revealed yesterday on Téléfoot that he was about to return to Ligue 1 through OGC Nice: “Two years ago, I was close to joining OGC Nice. »
Le Havre: Digard booed but combative
With 17,071 spectators, the attendance at Stade Océane was the lowest since the club's return to Ligue 1 in 2023, but the bronca resounded at half-time as well as at the end of the match after the new slap received by the HAC, against RC Strasbourg (0-3). The whistles against Didier Digard reappeared when the teams were announced and the replaced players were accompanied by boos.
“It’s very difficult, because the players surely produced what they did best at home,” said the Le Havrais coach at a press conference. The score is very large and we will never be able to explain it if we only look at the stats… My future? This question didn't cross my mind. I don't see players who have given up. Afterwards, I prefer it to be me who takes rather than them. Did they take it too? Yes, and it's a shame. The fans were tough on us. If this is their way of calming their frustration, we'll deal with it. But the goal is unity and not pulling on each other. »
RC Strasbourg : Rosenior savoure le clean-sheet
RC Strasbourg had been waiting for an away victory for nine months, acquired at the time on March 16 in Nantes (3-1). So the one obtained in Le Havre (3-0) obviously did good, even more so for a team which remained on one point in five days and which has just achieved its third clean sheet of the season in Normandy, the second in a row. “I am happy with the character displayed by the team, with the result of course, but especially with what the kids showed defensively,” said Liam Rosenior at a press conference. Of course, we always want more but we are not going to be choosy. » Because with this success, Strasbourg also took a margin of four points on the roadblock, ASSE.
Stade Rennais: nothing serious for Gouiri
Reassured by yesterday's victory at Roazhoon Park against SCO Angers (2-0), Stade Rennais did not do everything well but finally seems on the right track to regain a standing worthy of the name. “We would like a more offensive game, but we are on the road to recovery,” says Jorge Sampaoli’s assistant, Diogo Meschine. The players will free themselves according to the results and the principles to be assimilated. »
The SRFC will try to turn the page correctly in Bordeaux in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France, Sunday, before a copious month of January (Nice, OM, Brest, Monaco) and brainstorming to strengthen itself. To do this, Meschine suggested at a press conference that Amine Gouiri's injury would be “nothing too serious. »
