Back off to better blow up ? Initially scheduled for Saturday, October 29, FC Metz finally moves on Tuesday, November 1 to the lawn of US Raon l’Etape for the 7th in the Coupe de France. A offbeat encounter
for security reasons.
The cut, FC Metz, it’s not his thing. But being eliminated by a club playing three divisions lower, as is the case with the Vosges club, 11th in its National 3 group, this rarely happens to him. The last time was in 2002, in Libourne. This does not mean that the Grenats are going to walk to the Paul-Gasser stadium, against an opponent, who is also struggling in his championship, but hungry and carried by a white-hot public at the idea of seeing its players put on their old cup team costumes, the Garnets will have to be focused, motivated and enterprising.
Spirit, are you there?
Sectors in which they have hardly shone recently. Versus Le Havre
or against Sochaux
two adversaries having meticulously prepared their confrontation against Metz, they never knew overcome their difficulties and force the little thing to get back in the direction of travel.
In Le Havre, apart from perhaps Abblie Jallow, no one was in excess of function. Musaba and Mikautadze did have a few flashes in the second half, but they were too rare and too short. FC Metz in October is a sum of individuals who must relearn how to play as a team. To wonder if the mind who animated it at the very beginning of the season was not killed by the resurgence of ghosts from last season, downstream
Where against Guingamp
.
After Le Havre, Laszlo Bölöni admitted having insisted with his players on the need to do more to overcome this doubt that each player acknowledges undergoing. Raon must therefore be the first step towards redemption, because we dare not imagine the mental consequences that a new misstep would have.
US Raon-l’Etape – FC Metz, to live live from the Paul-Gasser stadium, this Tuesday, from 6 p.m. on France Bleu Lorraine with Thomas Jeangeorge.