Frankie yau will wear the mask this Friday evening at Bonal. Like all the spectators of this duel of the 17th day of Ligue 2 between Sochaux and Pau (kick off at 9 p.m.), the president of the FCSM, present this week, will comply with the new restrictions in force as the situation worsens. sanitary. But the number 2 of Nenking, the Chinese group owner of the club, hopes to end his Sochaux stay with a smile to savor a success of the Yellow and Blue. Because Omar Daf’s team is in dire need of a victory against the Béarnais. By chaining 4 games without winning, the FCSM slipped to 4th place. It is therefore high time to put the gas back on pain of dropping the TOP 5. But Pau, 7th, fully intends to play the spoilsport.
“We can’t do without our best players” – Omar Daf
“To re-engage a positive dynamic” according to Omar Daf “we must continue to play our game, to remain faithful to our philosophy” declared the FCSM coach this Thursday during the pre-match press point. Without forgetting to “reframe”, once again, the local press, too insistent for its taste on its questions around its offensive choices “It’s that simple. Didier Deschamps does not do without his best attackers. There isn’t a coach in the world who thinks “he’s my best player, but I don’t want to win the game, So I’m going to do without my best player! “So it’s the same, as is done in all clubs in the world, players who have less playing time have to shake up the hierarchy (Niane, Kitala). We try to be logical by starting the fittest players, who give the most, and I want to win games more than you do, so, I repeat, we are not going without our best players. “ Omar Daf closes the debate and above all expects much more from his “newcomers” who for the moment do not give him complete satisfaction.
“We are sure of ourselves, of our qualities, but we must raise our level of play especially at home” – Valentin Henry
Adama Niane and Yann Kitala are in the group of 19 players selected by Omar Daf for this match against Pau (who won only one away match in September in Caen). Also included Joseph Lopy, cured of COVID, Christophe Diédhiou (ill last week) whileAlan virginius (in recovery phase) and Younes Kaabouni (operated for a meniscus) are still missing. In defense, FCSM should line up their usual quartet with Valentin Henry in the right lane “We analyzed our mistakes against Toulouse. It will not happen again” swears the Breton side who remains confident for the arrival of Pau and the end of the year “We have to do more, especially at Bonal, we know that, but we are sure of our qualities, we are going through a difficult period, but we have three games left before the Christmas break to stay in the right direction. Pau must enable us to stop this negative spiral which does not correspond to our ambitions. “ More than two months after the last success at Bonal, it goes without saying that the supporters of the Yellow and Blue would hardly digest a defeat in the Béarnaise sauce.
The FCSM-Pau match is to be experienced live and in full on France Bleu Belfort-Montbéliard from 8:45 p.m. with commentaries from the Bonal stadium by Hervé Blanchard and Matheus Vivian (kick-off at 9 p.m.).