AS Saint-Etienne is doing better but recovery is still far from being decreed. For the first time since September, the Greens and their supporters did not spend the week in the shoes of the last in the championship.
On the strength of its three consecutive successes (Angers, Montpellier and Strasbourg), ASSE has pulled out of the red zone. “We must remain measured, calm and vigilant warns Pascal Dupraz. We are better with nine points taken in three games but that does not make us smarter or stronger than when we were unsuccessful“.
We do not maintain with 21 or 24 points – Pascal Dupraz.
The technician from Saint-Etienne knows football too well to allow himself and his men to the slightest relaxation : “We don’t stay at 21 or even 24 points if things go well against Strasbourg. We will remain very vigilant. Still, it’s more confidence. We can lean on something substantial“.
The same as against Clermont?
Among the certainties, there is clearly this framework organized around a seat with five defenders in which the Greens have started the last three games they have won in the league. “As I’m superstitious I think we’ll stick to a system of five concedes coach Dupraz but also admitting that maybe we’ll move faster to a four-man system“. It is in this last system that the Greens went to seek their last two victories at the end of the game.
However, there is little chance of seeing the technician make changes to his starting lineup even if according to him: “Changing players when they have been performing is a sign of a group that lives well“. Probably above all an attempt to confuse the cards for the adversary…
- The probable composition of ASSE : Bernardoni – Thioub, Sacko, Mangala, Nadé, Kolodziejczak – Camara, Gourna, Boudebouz – Khazri, Nordin