Deprived of their trip to Corsica last weekend, the young ASSE players have a meeting with a poorly ranked player, Marignane.
With a team however reshuffled, the Greens took the match from the right end and opened the scoring in the 3rd minute of play by Ewan Hornech well placed to take a cross from Samy Achour (ASSE 1-0 Marignane, 3rd). Two minutes later, Frédéric Dugand’s players repeated through Hani Guerroudj (ASSE 2-0 Marignane, 5th). Before the half-hour mark, the Greens had the opportunity to drive the point home from the penalty spot but the Marignane goalkeeper was impeccable against Fodé Camara. The end of the first half is rhythmic, Luan Gadegbeku’s teammates create chances and even concede a new penalty transformed this time by Issam Cheikh whose strike is first repelled by the Bouches-du-Rhône goalkeeper before the Greens striker managed to send the ball into the back of the net (ASSE 3-0 Marignane, 37th). The southerners push and even reduce the score just before the break from a free kick (ASSE 3-1 Marignane, 44th).
With a lack of rhythm caused by two matches postponed in eight days of the championship, the Greens were unable to maintain a certain regularity throughout the entire match. The second half is less fluid. In numerical superiority for more than thirty minutes, the Greens failed to repeat the good sequences of the first half.
” Il there is no small victory. I think we could have done better in the game with projection, combined play. We are attacking a series where there will be a lot of matches, the players need to regain playing volume and freshness, that will be important for the future, commented Frédéric Dugand after the match. I had a U17N (Sonny Yvars) and players who are not usually starters, they must immediately get into the rhythm of the competition, the demands of the U19N championship.”
U19 National – Day 8
ASSE 3-1 Marignane
MT : 3-1
Buts : Hornech (3rd), Guerroudj (5th) and Cheikh (37th) for ASSE. Quinson (44th) for Marignane.
ASSE : Derache – Achour (then Meite, 61st), Camara, Ben Rahem, Boukadida, Hornech (then Zerga, 46th) – Gadegbeku, Tatuszka – Yvars (then Grillot, 46th), Guerroudj, Cheikh.
Coach: Frédéric Dugand.