Football often thrives on winks. This Saturday (9 p.m.) for the trip of the Greens to Reims (18th day of Ligue 1) Julien Sablé will meet Oscar Garcia. The former Greens midfielder, at the helm of the Saint-Etienne boat since the sidelining of Claude Puel, finds the one he replaced during his first stint at the head of ASSE in November 2017.
The famous click of the change of trainer?
For this second interim at the head of the Greens Julien Sablé hopes to have more success. He who had not known any victory (4 defeats and two draws) in six games before leaving his place to his assistant Jean-Louis Gasset. ASSE will also count on the famous click effect of the change of coach.
For the new Captain Wahbi Khazri: “These are the performances that will tell if ASSE did well to dismiss the Castres technician. If we are efficient, that means that there is something that did not work with the former coach.”
Radical changes expected?
By entrusting the armband to Wahbi Khazri and instituting a “council of five”, Julien Sablé has already started a real shift with his predecessor in management. A break that should find continuity in the composition and the ideas of play from Saturday in Reims? “There will be different things, answers Julien Sablé. The game plan has it in mind. I have my sensitivity and my ideas“.
For the trip to Champagne, the coach of the Greens can count on the return of midfielder Yvan Neyoux and Aïmen Moueffek. He will have to deal with the packages of Romain Hamouma, Harold Moukoudi and Ignacio Ramirez injured.
The probable composition: Green, Mason, Sow, Kolodziejczak – Boudebouz, Camara, Youssouf – Nordin, Khazri (cap), Bouanga