Backrest: 100% AJA
Without its top scorer Charbonnier or its two masters to play Sakhi and Autret, injured, the AJA showed an attractive face with a victorious new look team in Valenciennes on Monday (2-1, 14th day L2). This success, important to further cement the group, made Auxerre climb to the podium.
“These are situations that can make the club grow, grow a group and give the dressing room another volume. Even if you have a loss at the end, this game can give you important skills for the future.” Premonitory, the words of Jean-Marc Furlan before this VAFC-AJA? May be. What is certain is that the victory in Icaunaise on Monday at the Stade du Hainaut (2-1, 14th day L2) brought about the emergence of a group that we had struggled to find efficient for several meetings. After the draw conceded at the last minute at home against Nîmes (2-2) while being dominated, the slap received in Toulouse (6-0) then the victory, the delivery of which was very difficult against Bastia (1-0), the Ajaïste team displayed a rather attractive face and a performance overall quite successful in the proposed game.
And this in spite of many absentees of weight at the kick-off, in particular the top scorer (seven goals) Gaëtan Charbonnier (back), the masters to play Mathias Autret (ankle) and Hamza Sakhi (calf), and the Swiss army knife Alexandre Coeff (adductor). Without forgetting the packages of a little longer date like Ousoumane Camara, Gautier Lloris and Aly Ndom. Consequence: more than a third of the team to start the meeting was composed of rather substitute players in the mind of Jean-Marc Furlan. A training animated in a rather new way, first in the midfield, with a trio Birama Touré-Alexis Trouillet-Gauthier Hein intriguing, then in defense, with the return of Carlens Arcus on the right side, he who had no longer been a holder since the victory against Rodez (1-0, 9th d. L2) more than a month ago.