– The Strasbourg coach Julien Stephan : “Today we fulfilled our first objective, to reach these 41 points, a total which we think is sufficient to still be in Ligue 1 next season. It was acquired thanks to a goal scored very early in the game and to a very great collective discipline to contain Angers and not to concede anything at all. It is a victory for the collective, defensive intelligence, serenity.
– The Strasbourg striker Kevin Gameiro : “It’s a very good victory. On goal, on a returned corner, I feel that the defender is going to put it in this area, I let the ball go down well to take it. I will admit that I thought it was going to go into the stands. But I take it so well that it goes into the skylight. I must have scored one or two goals like that in my career, but I don’t remember, I scored so many ( laughs). It’s a very important goal for the team because it wins us the match”.
The Strasbourg collective was once again on point. On the heels of their victory by the same score against Nantes (1-0), the Racing players shone more with their defensive selflessness than their offensive flashes. Matz Sels made the necessary save, the defenders held the barracks and the offensive players were not stingy with their efforts, like Adrien Thomasson who multiplied the paying defensive withdrawals. By the way, the Strasbourg residents achieve a second consecutive clean sheet (a first this season). They have won five of their six L1 games in 2022.
Kevin Gameiro scored (a total of five times) in each of their last four games in Ligue 1 (he did not play against Nantes). He scored a goal against Montpellier, one in Clermont, a double in Bordeaux and one in Angers. At the Raymond Kopa stadium, he offered victory to Racing with a clear and powerful volley with his right foot, after a ball badly repelled by the SCO defense (11th minute).
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