Before the winter break, Stade Brestois coach Eric Roy does not yet know which team he will be able to field for his last championship match, a crucial one against Nantes, next Sunday (5 p.m.).
In Brest, the infirmary will soon be fuller than the match sheets. After beating PSV Eindhoven (1-0) Tuesday evening in the Champions League, Stade Brestois is once again counting the injured, hoping not to have seen a Pyrrhic victory in Roudourou. Already deprived of Coulibaly, Locko, Lees-Melou, Martin and Zogbé, Éric Roy's men will no longer be able to count on their scorer against PSV, Julien Le Cardinal.
“I think he is on vacation to celebrate Christmas,” said the coach at the end of the meeting. “We won't see him again before the restart. It's certainly a grade at least 2 or 3 (out of 4) at the level of the hamstrings at the top of the thigh.” Romain Faivre and Kenny Lala, who did not play on Tuesday, trained separately this Wednesday and remain uncertain for the match against FC Nantes on Sunday at 5 p.m.
Seven stitches for N'Diaye at half-time
Brest's central defense could have been quickly weakened after only a few minutes of matches with Abdoulaye N'Diaye's injury. Éric Roy was full of praise after the match for the Senegalese defender. “It's not given to everyone to have that courage. From his first tackle, he had a cut on the kick. We sewed him up with seven stitches at half-time. We didn't know if he was going to be able to do it again, but he gritted his teeth.”
Before the winter break, the Bretons coach does not yet know which team he will be able to field for his last crucial championship match against Nantes. “Even if they are stitches,” we are hopeful that in five days, it can already heal a little,” continued Éric Roy. “I think that if he played there, he could be back on Sunday . These are just speculations from coaches who are not doctors or surgeons, but if Abdoulaye is also injured, I don't know how I will make a hinge.”
Ajorque suspended against Nantes
Stade Brestois, which played its twentieth match last night since the start of the season, knew that the question of squad would be essential at the start of the season, to be competitive. For Éric Roy, the subject is central.
“Are we capable every four or five days of being able to repeat this kind of performance with this intensity? That's the real problem. At one point, my desire was to do a lot of things when the matches came one after the other, to that we always have players who are fresh enough and capable of repeating this type of athletic performance. Unfortunately, running it will be very complicated because we barely have any players left. played again on Sunday. We have no choice.”
In addition to the injured, the Bretons will also be deprived of their striker Ludovic Ajorque (4 goals), who received three yellow cards in less than ten matches.
