After their success against Strasbourg (2-0) on Saturday during the 10th day of Ligue 1, the Greens launched their week perfectly before returning to the derby in Lyon next Sunday. They will go to Groupama Stadium with the hope of bringing home a result.
Communion with the public, after the success against Strasbourg (2-0), quickly transformed into preparation for the derby for the Stéphanois, since the supporters sang their hatred of the Lyonnais, to motivate their players. The latter will use this energy but are already well focused on the match against OL, which the green people have been waiting for almost three years. “The supporters have already motivated us a little,” smiles midfielder Louis Mouton, who has been with the club since he was eleven years old. “Personally, I have known a lot of them and playing my first derby as a professional, I hope, it would be incredible. The whole team will give 500% if we can.”
“We fight with our weapons”
ASSE is pushed by the victory and the clean sheet achieved this Saturday, which the scorer Ibrahim Sissoko hopes will be a trigger: “It will take the same mentality to try to grab something (in Lyon), it will be a big match expected by all the green people, it's up to us to respond. I'm preparing it quietly. We hear a lot about it but it's not like the big day. We're going to prepare it all week, quietly.
The Greens will be helped by local men like Romain Hamouma, in the staff or Mickaël Nadé, trained at the club. “It gives you confidence to go to Lyon,” says the central defender. “We are in good spirits. We are going to approach this match in the best possible way. I told them (the teammates) to prepare because it is a match like no other. We are going to put them in the deep end this week !” Louis Mouton agrees: “It's an ultra special match, a 100-point match. It's unimaginable, incredible to experience derbies like that. As youngsters, we played in front of 2,000 spectators at 15 years old. We're going to try to do as much as possible. better, we fight with our weapons.”
