“Guingamp, it’s a different pair of sleeves!” OIivier Guégan could not set the scene better for the celebrations awaiting the Yellow and Blue this Tuesday on the occasion of the 6th day of Ligue 2. Sochaux, 6th, visits the Costarmoricains, 3rd, in their Roudourou stadium at 8:45 p.m. For the Sochaux coach, and for his entire team, this is the first major challenge for the FCSM at the start of the season against an opponent certainly superior to all those already encountered. L’En Avant has just won in Bordeaux (0-1) and plays quality football. This duel will therefore make it possible to know if Sochaux has really returned to the level of the best, if its current recovery confirms its (re) rise in power, and if the supporters are therefore entitled to have real hopes this season.
Forward “Guegan”!
For the Sochaux coach, this match against Guingamp is an opportunity “to see how my team will behave when we don’t have the ball, but especially when we do. I want to see a lot of content in this match, enthusiasm. Guingamp is a playful team, which likes to have the ball, it is up to us to deprive it of it, to take control of the game. The more we advance in the match, and the more the score will be “held”, the more chances we will have of achieving a very good result. It’s up to us to keep moving forward.”
The transfer window aside
Another challenge of this match, keeping the whole group under pressure in this rather turbulent end of transfer window period “There are a lot of questions about possible departures of certain players. It doesn’t matter who is in talks to leave or not, they are 100% concerned with the group, we talk about it between us, but we are big boys and everyone knows how to make sense of things.” explains Maxence Prévot, the FCSM goalkeeper this Monday during the pre-match press conference. And carry on “If everyone is still here it’s to play hard for this club. There are no cheaters in this group. We want to keep this group which has been doing well lately, it’s important to keep it full” for the Sochaux goalkeeper who will be at the head of the same group of players as against Niort. Kalulu and Ndiaye are on the trip to Brittany, Henry is still absent.
Live the Guingamp-Sochaux match live and in full on France Bleu Belfort Montbéliard from 8:30 p.m. this Tuesday with comments by Hervé Blanchard from the Roudourou stadium (kick-off at 8:45 p.m.)