Finally, the weeks pass and look alike…or almost. Once again, the Stade de Reims will play a match cut off from many injured or suspended players. But for once, there are finally returns that will give a little freshness to this decimated team. While their participation was far from certain at the end of the week, Ghislain Konan (hit on the back), Moussa Doumbia (adductors) and Arber Zeneli (returned from a long injury) appear well in the group of 21 players who made moving on the rock. If these returns do not guarantee an optimal state of form, they at least enrich a workforce that is increasingly difficult to compose for Reims coach Oscar Garcia.
Last game of suspension for Yunis Abdelhamid
Even if the latter succeeded last Sunday against Brest to make a good figure. For this match, however, Yunis Abdelhamid will serve his second and last game of suspension after the red card received in Nantes 15 days ago. He will be back against Strasbourg next Sunday. The team’s top scorer, Hugo Ekitiké, will be out for at least a month after tearing his thigh against Brest last Sunday. The Rémois will face a Monaco team which has not lost at home since September 11, it was against Marseille, and which has every intention of reviving after two draws against Lorient and Bordeaux.
THE GROUP
- Guardians: Yehvann DIOUF, Nicolas PENNETEAU, Predrag RAJKOVIC
- Defenders: Maxime BUSI, Wout FAES, Ghislain KONAN, Bradley LOCKO, Enzo VALENTIM
- Environments : Martin ADELINE, Alexis FLIPS, Kamory DOUMBIA, Moussa DOUMBIA, Dion LOPY, Azor MATUSIWA, Marshall MUNETSI, Sambou SISSOKO, Arber ZENELI
- Forwards: Fraser HORNBY, Ilan KEBBAL, Nathanaël MBUKU, Mitchell VAN BERGEN
- Absent: Valon BERISHA (ischio), Anastasios DONIS (ankle), Andreaw GRAVILLON (foot), Jens CAJUSTE (quadriceps), Hugo EKITIKE (ischio), Thomas FOKET (ischio), Moreto CASSAMA (knee), El Bilal TOURE (ischio), Yunis ABDELHAMID (suspended).