Ligue 1 – The derby against OL? A “100-point” match for ASSE

The derby is a special match. We were able to see it again this weekend. Barely had the match against Strasbourg finished and been debriefed that the first questions about the opposition between Olympique Lyonnais and AS Saint-Étienne arose. Olivier Dall'Oglio was not very talkative on the subject: “We will have time to talk about it next week of the derby (smile), but yes I think it is the best way to approach it by winning at home. We needed to take points. This team still needs to mature, grow and time. We can't arrive in Ligue 1 from the four corners of the world and build a team like that. I know that in football, we don't have time, especially the coaches, but this team must mature.”

Trained at the club, Louis Mouton knows the particularity of this poster: “The supporters have already motivated us a little for the derby. Personally, as I am a player trained at the club, I have experienced derbies. Playing my first with the pros in Ligue 1, I hope, that would be incredible. In any case I think the whole team will give 200% or even 500%. (…) Those who will discover the derby? I think Romain (Hamouma) will be able to talk to them very well too. It's not a special match, it's a hundred-point match! It's unimaginable to experience derbies like that. There is really a rivalry, even when we were young, we received 2,000 spectators when we were only 15 years old. There was already incredible enthusiasm! We are going to try to get moving, to fight with our weapons and above all not to give up.“

Mickaël Nadéalso trained at the club, will also advise the new players before this regional shock: “I'm going to tell them to get ready because it's really not a match like any other. We're going to put them in the bath this week.”

Pour Ibrahim Sissokoit is the big day that we will have to respond: “We will have to have the same mentality as tonight to hope to win something. We know that it's going to be a big match, awaited by all the green people, it's up to us to respond. Frankly, I'm preparing for the derby quietly. You will simply have to be present at the right time, not before, not after. We hear a lot about it, we will prepare it all week and we will simply have to respond there.“

One thing is certain, we haven't heard the last of the derby until this Sunday.