the SM Caen ends with 2021 with a trip this Tuesday to Quevilly-Rouen-Métropole. The Caen coach will leave without the slightest regret this year behind him.
“I won’t hide from you that I am looking forward to 2022 to restart something, nods Stéphane Moulin. I don’t mean restarting something new but starting over with something different, with a bigger workforce. And I especially hope to start again on bases that we have put in place but of which we have not yet really seen the consequences. I hope that in 2022 we will see the progress on our game and on our organization that we are starting to see a little since the Auxerre match. “
Guest of 100% Stade Malherbe, the technician from Caen returned to his first six months on the bench of the Norman football club: the first successful against Rodez (“Perfect to start the season, a relatively good game from start to finish”), the arbitration frustration of the match against Dijon (“The referee was wrong from start to finish. We drag like a ball these three points that we should have had and that we do not have”) or the cascade of injuries (“We still had six surgeries, which is unlikely for a season. It ended up penalizing us.”).
It is difficult to determine the place of a team when you have not had the opportunity to play with all your strength.
After the draw obtained in Auxerre (2-2) and the success against Guingamp (2-0), a new result in Quevilly this Tuesday could allow to validate this better recorded in the game. The question is to know what the SM is worth Caen version 2021-2022.
“I can’t answer it because we never played a game with our entire squad. I haven’t had that chance since the start of the season which is a first for me. It’s difficult to determine the place a team when we haven’t had the opportunity to play with all our strength and I hope we will be less impacted than we were at the start of the season.
What I want to see is what the team have been able to achieve in the last two games because I think it matches their level.
So tell you a place in the ranking that would correspond to the level of the workforce … Honestly today I do not yet know the real value of our team because to detect the level we need continuity. And that we can play with the same five-six games. Which has never happened to us. “
We ask ourselves the question of an attacker who can play on the side because we lost Mehdi Chahiri.
For the coming transfer window, Stéphane Moulin wants an axial midfielder, but the thinking is also again on the offensive players.
“We ask ourselves the question of a striker who can play on the side because we lost Mehdi Chahiri. It is not nothing. He is a player on whom we counted enormously. We always have uncertainty around. Kelian Nsona. We are uncertain about Yoann Court as well, even if we hope that he will return to his best level. These are players who all play in the same position.
When we have more precise answers to our questions, we may have to look at a player in the offensive sector. If ever Kelian Nsona and Yoann Court cannot resume with us, we still have to have the ability to come up with something with another player. “