This is often the prerogative of these player profiles. They can walk through a game like ghosts and finally find the switch in the middle of the night, when the lights seemed permanently out. Against Dunkirk, Saturday afternoon at Roudourou, Rayan Ghrieb existed. He touched balls, and he could even have made the difference in the first half. But he too often made the wrong choices in the last pass or when it came to finishing. So on the hour mark, when he was launched deep and finally stopped his run rather than striking spontaneously, the stadium blew. However, it was at this moment, after staring at his defender, that he found the opening with a subtle left-foot curl (59′, 0-1).
Like the team
Such is the old Dunkirk: unpredictable, in the good and the bad, sometimes too. “He also had a difficult first half hour,” conceded Sylvain Ripoll, his coach, after the match. It was better afterwards, he was decisive. He put in a few moves that we can and should expect from him. He was in tune with the team. It’s never easy playing against your former club on an emotional level. You have to stay focused on your game. But this week he was good in training. »
After a disappointing performance on the Bastia pitch (1-3), in mid-December, during the previous day of Ligue 2, the 25-year-old left-hander reminded Luis Castro, the coach of the team, of what he was capable of. northern formation, with whom he had quarreled before leaving the club last summer.
Potential to improve
“He’s a talented player, a last-pass player,” explains the Guingamp technician. He is capable of scoring and making goals. I think this goal will do him good. He has a lot of qualities, we now have to bring all that out. » A challenge for the staff as well as for the player, from whom the light must emerge more often.
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