The Chamois Niortais are playing their first game of the 2022/2023 season at home this Saturday August 6. Bastia reception on behalf of the 2nd day of Ligue 2. The Corsicans lost to Stade Lavallois last week. The people of Niort have started their championship well with a 2-1 victory on the lawn of Annecy.
A good league starts with home wins
Sébastien Desabre the coach believes “that a good championship goes through victories at home. Last year out of the 12 victories we had 7 it seems to me at home. We must have at least the same ratio. After all the matches are difficult but it is sure that at home you have to try to trigger a good dynamic”.
And continue on the same path than last Saturday in the Alps. “We have to continue even if it was a complicated match last week”, explains the coach. Because of the heat, the terrain, but also the face of the match. “As we scored the two goals first, you inevitably fall back a little, you are less good at controlling the game. But it was a perfect match to start the championship, it also allowed us to be in difficulty on the second half and to make very interesting physical stats”.
We expect a complicated game against a good team
Sébastien Desabre is waiting for this second match “more control” in front of “a good team from Bastia who did not have a success last week. We are expecting a complicated match against a good team”.
Niort who will play in particular without his captain, Charles Kabore, injured during the meeting in Annecy. Nothing serious but the club prefers not to take any risks.
Kick-off from Niort/Bastia to 19 hours at the René Gaillard stadium.