the SM Caen will travel to Nancy without three of the eleven starters lined up against Niort (0-2) due to their suspension. Anthony Gonçalves and Nuno Da Costa pay an excess of yellow cards. Yoann Court will miss the next two games after a direct red for a tackle from behind against the Chamois.
If they are not the most sanctioned and not the lowest ranked in the Fair Play ranking (8th), Stéphane Moulin’s men, on the other hand, have accumulated five red cards since the start of the season. Only Nancy (Nine reds) received more in Ligue 2. A statistic all the more infuriating as these expulsions could for a large part have been avoided: red contested in Ajaccio for Alexandre Mendy, red more than avoidable for the same Mendy for having contested too vehemently on the Caen bench in Quevilly, severe red for two faults at Sochaux by Nuno Da Costa or even red for this angry tackle from Yoann Court against Niort.
I told the guys, we penalize ourselves. we don’t need that
“It’s a lot for nonsense, concedes Stéphane Moulin. We haven’t injured any players but we also sometimes have trouble controlling our emotions. There are cards and suspensions which are more difficult to accept than others. There are sometimes logical expulsions. If we take the last one (that of Yoann Court), it is not defensible. It is not excusable. If we take that of Alexandre Mendy in Quevilly, it is not is not excusable either.
These are things we could have done without but hey, that’s how it is continues Stéphane Moulin. We must make do. I’m not going to say that you have to accept, I don’t accept it. We must progress but in quotation marks, it is not normal. We shouldn’t do this kind of thing and afterwards when we do it obviously it cost us dearly at Sochaux (3-2). It cost us the game and a suspension behind it. I told the guys, we penalize ourselves. we don’t need that.”
Return of Benjamin Jeannot?
Benjamin Jeannotoperated on the meniscus then embarrassed in the calf, carried out a week of normal training.
SM Caen also finds its left side Ali Abdi back from the African Cup of Nations without any certainty of seeing him start against Nancy.
“He was arrested ten days due to the covid, tempers his trainer. He was at a complete standstill. He is not injured. Then, is he ready? We’ll see tomorrow how we can use it.”
Adolphe Teikeu got a little scare. The tests revealed nothing. The Caennais coach hopes to recover his central defender for the match against Nîmes (February 12)