Racing Club de Strasbourg ahead AS Monaco in the standings (for the benefit of a better goal-average, the two teams have 19 points), before the clash between the two teams on Sunday in the Principality during the fifteenth day of Ligue 1. A difficult situation to predict at the start of the season .
But Strasbourg have been strong enough, especially at Meinau, to earn their current seventh place, while Niko Kovač’s team, yet virtually unchanged this summer, failed to surf on his formidable course in the second half of last season.
Monaco more efficient in European Cup
ASM, effective in the Europa League (she qualified for the round of 16 thanks to a success Thursday against the Spanish Real Sociedad), has dropped too many points in the league, even if she is only six points from the podium.
A revealer for Racing?
Outsider on Sunday, Racing has a big deal to play in the event of a positive result, even if trainer Julien Stéphan refutes the term bonus match: “I’m a very positive person. To have 19 points after 14 days, that makes everyone happy. To be tied with Monaco before this match, that also makes a lot of people happy. So a bonus match or not bonus match, I think above all that we have already taken a lot of points, that’s good, but we will go there again to take more, even if the task promises to be difficult because the opposing team is strong and has a lot of talent. But we can not wait to calibrate in these meetings “.
By the end of the year, Racing will face two more opponents who do not box in its category (Nice and Marseille). Meetings that will allow us to learn even more about the potential of this team.
The Merchant always out
For this trip to Monaco on Sunday, Julien Stéphan records the return of injury from Jean-Eudes Aholou and suspension of Ludovic Ajorque and Anthony Caci. On the other hand, it will have to do without once again the services of Maxime Le Marchand, still injured in the back.