“Abdelhamid? No one at the club was surprised”

Back in business after a good match against Montpellier, Younis Abdelhamid was again at the center of discussions this Thursday noon during the pre-match press briefing. The opportunity for his friend in defense, Dylan Batubinsika to evoke his counterpart on the left side of the Green hinge.

Convincing last Saturday against Montpellier, the hinge of the Greens recorded his third clean sheet of the season after Lille and Strasbourg. At a press conference this Thursday noon, Dylan Batubinsika returned to his captain's period of doubt and his ability to react in order to get his head back on track: “Yunis I found him very good in the last match, he was vengeful after his last performances. He was not at the level he wanted and at the level we expected him to be but… no one at the club was surprised by what he did against Montpellier. He's a hard worker, he's a sure thing, he's someone recognized in Ligue 1. What's important in these situations is. It's how we get back up. It was. touched, it's normal Sometimes we are treated in certain ways by the supporters, we try not to pay attention to it but we know it I think, he was touched by it and yet he always kept it. smile and was serious in training He worked a lot, there is no surprise, he has great mental strength.

Olivier Dall'Oglio also returned to his defender's reaction and explained why he removed the captain's armband from him in the last match: “Yunis showed things in the last match, he is reassured. He is an experienced boy, that plays a big role for him. He has not only experienced good things in his career, the past helps him too today I had decided to remove the armband from him to unload him on the emotional side and on taking charge of the group, even if I know that he will influence it with his presence and his words but I had. need to see it more focused on himself.”

A change of armband which changed nothing in the usual functioning of the group andAbdelhamid on the last match according to Researcher : “I saw the same player without the armband as with it. It didn't change anything. He was the one who spoke during the warm-up, he who spoke in the locker room, he's a natural leader “He absolutely didn't fade away, on the contrary, even when he was on the bench in previous matches, he was very present, he was the captain of this team.”