A sixth draw, this season, but above all only one success at home on the return phase, and only one victory over the last seven days. Here is the balance sheet of a decidedly Paillade flu and not inspired, in 2022.
If defensively, the MHSC managed to resist, with a clean sheet that we owe a lot to the performance of Dimitry Bertaudauthor of a decisive save at close range against Cadjuste and several decisive interventions, it is especially in the offensive animation that Montpellier worried.
In the first period, few ideas in the last thirty meters, no efficiency in the last gesture, and a lot of annoyance between the different actors. It must be said that if the collective performance is far from having been brilliant, that of several players individually has been downright mediocre, technically. And this is how Olivier Dall’Oglio’s men have not scored a single goal, in the game and at home, since receiving Rennes.
Lost balls, slips, bad choices and little movement caused the nervousness and anger of some Hérault residents, but also that of a public who copiously whistled his men at the end of the first act, as at the final whistle.
The entry of Rémy Cabella and Joris Chotard, very early in the game (55 ‘), in place of Léo Leroy and Florent Mollet, made it possible to energize the end of the match, without allowing it to tip over. No more than that of Valère Germain and Béni Makouana.
With only six games left, Montpellier will travel to Lens on Wednesday evening, then to Lyon next Saturday. With the hope of a reaction, but with the fear of a correction.