the essential
With his Moroccan right winger available again, the Toulouse coach should rely – for an end to the season full of appetite – on the Aboukhlal-Dallinga-Gboho triplet. Complementary, as desired. And to check this Sunday afternoon, in Lorient, for the thirty-first day of the French Championship. Kick-off, at Moustoir: 3 p.m.
Aboukhlal, Dallinga, Gboho. The trifecta in order – that is to say from right to left on the front of the purple attack – is to the delight of Carles Martinez Novell who has just aligned it for the second time in a row. In Rennes for a 2-1 masterstroke, against Marseille for the same success… within a minute (OM equalized 2-2, 90+6). At the moment, for the Catalan coach, it is his best offensive trident. He is not wrong, he would even be right since, given the data, the figures speak for themselves. In these columns, we have repeatedly welcomed the winter transfer window and praised the arrival of the one who changed everything at Toulouse FC: Yann Gboho. Second part of the season, return phase, new era.
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Two ends of the match to acclimatize, a first start in No. 10 in Reims for three resounding points, a collective relapse against Nantes and Martinez Novell to pull his now traditional 3-4-3 out of the hat. A diagram giving pride of place to its particle accelerator. A true false left winger who transplants inside, Gboho, to favor spaces in his lane or the excess in the heart of the game.
“Yann is the added value of your team”
“It’s the electron in your system,” former Tef defender and Prime consultant Dominique Arribagé explained to us before the meeting in Ille-et-Vilaine. Yann has this art of navigating between the lines to create. Certainly, the value added to the team.” The famous X factor or, as our oval cousins would call it, impact player. Since his arrival, i.e. 13 L1 matches, the player trained at Stade Rennais has been involved in all the battles: 10 starts, 3 appearances from the bench; 2 goals, 2 assists; two penalties caused – not to mention the penultimate serves which will have to be counted one day or another in the stats sheets…
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But if the left is free, the right is more conservative we will say. Yesterday Aron Dönnum (7 starts this year), today the returning injury Zakaria Aboukhlal (2T) must “eat” the touchline. Just to balance the canvas. In the middle can thus sit Thijs Dallinga (12T, 6B and 1PD still since the restart).
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Results of the races and accounts: in 2024, Téfécé ranks 4e strike force of the Championship with 21 goals. Conversely, the Lorient Merlus, who are preparing to welcome the Garonnais arsenal, deplore the worst rearguard in Ligue 1 (24 goals conceded since J18). Shall we take weekend bets?
