As in the championship where Monaco is no longer advancing, the Principality team, which started its European campaign very well (10 points after 4 days), remains on track. two worrying defeats in the Champions League. Two days before the end of this new phase of the League, Monaco, 16th, is only three points ahead of Paris, the first virtual elimination.
Suffice it to say that captain Denis Zakaria, back in the competition, and his team will have to take at least one point on Tuesday. Especially since, for the last one, they will have to challenge Inter Milan (6th with 13 points) at San Siro… “We are not an Italian team, which knows how to hold a draw and is trained for that, underlines Adi Hütter. We like to move forward, it’s in our DNA. Saying that we want to play a draw doesn’t make sense. On the other hand, to say thaton does everything to defend well collectivelyoui.”
The opponent is in good shape. Unai Emery’s team has just achieved a good draw at Arsenal (2-2), where a former Monegasque, Belgian Youri Tielemans, scored. In the Champions League, the “Villans” are also in fifth place (13 points). Already assured of qualification for the play-offs, the Birmingham team, which travels to the Principality with more than 1,000 supporters, intends push down your opponent, and stay in the Top 8directly qualifying for the round of 16.
“An opportunity to get out of this situation”
And Monaco, since his home defeat against Benfica (3-2) which had the effect of a club blow, is no longer the resplendent team at the start of the season. And our matchesshe doesn’tin won only two (including one in the Coupe de France against a Regional club), made three draws (including one in the Cup in Reims which led to elimination on penalties) and lost six times.
-At the start of this negative spiral, the Monegasques invoked bad luck and certain individual errors (Caio Henrique against Benfica, Salisu in Marseille, for example) to justify the shortcomings while the performances remained interesting against quality teams. But after being overwhelmed at Arsenal (3-0), then beaten twice by Paris (4-2 and L1 and 1-0 during the Champions Trophy), the spiral has become very negative. Today Nantes (2-2), Reims (1-1) and Montpellier (2-1), three teams in distress in L1, no longer fear Monaco.
So it’s been two months since Hütterwho in the meantime extended his contract until June 2027 with a salary increase at stake, seeks to rectify the situation. Without succeeding. His men seem to be gradually drowning. And if Monaco fails to react on Tuesday, the crisis will exist.
After the defeat in Montpellier on Friday, Japanese striker Takumi Minamino asked to “chstate of mind anger quickly“. But, like many players supposed to be natural leaders of the team (Henrique, Salisu, Kehrer, Golovin, Embolo), himself does not live up to the demands due to his rank. Internally, Hütter held some of them accountable. And while maintaining “confidence in our style of play”, hope for a reaction from them, this from the reception of Aston Villa, “an opportunity to get out of this situation“.
