“It’s not an easy situation for him, because he’s a competitor and I put myself in his place”recognized Luka Elsner on Sunday, after the success of Reims (4th in L1) against Montpellier (4-2). He mentioned Teddy Teuma, captain temporarily deposed in favor of Emmanuel Agbadou or Marshall Munetsi. Because the Maltese international midfielder (31 years old, 38 caps, 3 goals) started on the bench four of the five matches for which he was operational.
He was suspended in the opening match against Lille (0-2, August 17), then injured in the back for the trip to Marseille (2-2, August 25). “But little by little, things are getting back to normalcontinued the Champagne coach. Teddy makes great efforts in training and regains a level of fitness in line with his qualities. I am happy for him and it touches me a lot that he was able to convert this very important penalty which assured us the victory (90th + 2, Sunday)”, his first goal of the season. He had entered in place of his most frontal competitor, the young Ivorian midfielder Yaya Fofana (20 years old), whose complementarity with Valentin Atangana (19 years old) and Munetsi (28 years old) is satisfactory.
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