The reactions are rave about AS Saint-Étienne after Eirik Horneland's first match on the club's bench. ASSE showed a face never seen before this season against Stade de Reims, enough to excite the supporters as well as the various observers.
This is the case of the RMC columnist, Walid Acherchourquite simply “bluffé” by the copy made by the Stéphanois. Obviously, the latter is waiting to see confirmation during the next meetings and especially to see this philosophy of play practiced in a Cauldron full to overflowing: “It's a team promoted to Saint-Étienne, but during the season. It's a new team that we're discovering. I was amazed. We're not going to get into the culture of the moment and we're going to be patient and not get excited. Faced with a Reims team which has lost Agbanou, which is in a period which is not easy. Honestly, the intentions, the high pressure, the personality of certain players. Batubinsika talking about it in the mixed zone by saying “it's perhaps the change of coach, the intentions”. This is often the case when a coach arrives. In any case, I was excited by this Saint-Etienne team.
In addition, in the first half there are three, four big chances where they have to do better, they hit the post, take the goal against the run of play. In the second half, they manage to wrap up the match and to turn it upside down. Well done to Saint-Étienne, well done to Horneland. I can't wait to see this in a packed Geoffroy-Guichard, because two stands were missing. It's strong! Especially with the character, it's good what they did, it's very good what they did in the first half hour but there are a lot of teams who after the 1-0 could have completely flinch and say to yourself, let's stop. And no, there is the duo Boakye and Stassin, two recruits who had scored very little since the start of the season, one of whom scored two goals and the other an exceptional goal.
