This Saturday noon, the scene obviously appealed to the thirty supporters grouped behind the barriers, near the Krimmeri bridge, to slip a word of encouragement to the Strasbourg residents before their Sunday trip (3 p.m.) to Dijon for the 21st day of Ligue 1 : while he had returned to the locker room at La Meinau after the session, Majeed Waris came out with a scowl, barefoot and tap dancing, accompanied by Kader Mangane.
Flanked by the sports coordinator, the pocket striker crossed the stream in the other direction, then the portal of the training grounds. There, out of sight, he was obviously entitled to a text explanation with his trainer. Then he returned to the stadium, his face closed, shaking his head in annoyance.
Bingourou Kamara and Adrien Lebeau back
Moments later, Thierry Laurey announced that the Ghanaian, used very little this season (398 minutes in 13 matches, including 4 starts), was not in the group for the Côte d’Or expedition. An eviction that makes the happiness of the young attacking midfielder Adrien Lebeau, recalled in the list of 20 in which he had not appeared since the reception of Bordeaux on December 20.
The other change was, him, more expected: the replacement goalkeeper Bingourou Kamara, unavailable since the beginning of December for an inflammation in the knee, made his return, to the detriment of the young Alexandre Pierre, called to appear on the seven previous scoresheets in L1.
In principle, the Strasbourg coach will not depart this Sunday from the 4-2-3-1 pattern on which he has been relying in recent weeks, but which he still occasionally abandons. This was the case last Sunday against Saint-Etienne in La Meinau (1-0) where the RCSA had started in 4-4-2 with a diamond-shaped midfielder. But the experiment, inconclusive, was quickly abandoned by the technician, for a return to the famous 4-2-3-1 which offsets his striker Habib Diallo to the right.
Should we nevertheless expect touch-ups in a winning starting XI (three wins in three matches in 2021)? This is not necessarily the trend, as Racing has only played once a week since January 9 and will keep this rhythm until the reception of Reims on Sunday 31 (3 p.m., 22nd day) at La Meinau. But it’s not impossible either.
This week in training, we have thus seen a lot Dimitri Liénard working alongside Jean-Eudes Aholou in recovery, Anthony Caci, tested on the right side, pairing up with Lionel Carole on the flanks of the defense or Kevin Zohi, occupying the leftmost post of the attacking midfielder trident. Does this mean that Kenny Lala, Ibrahima Sissoko and / or Jeanricner Bellegarde could breathe? Nothing is less sure. But nothing is impossible either.
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