By Aline Chatel
Published on 17 Feb 21 at 13:55
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The story between Yacine Bammou and the Stade Malherbe Caen is definitely strewn with pitfalls. Since his recruitment at a gold price in 2018, the center forward has been accumulating disappointments in his adopted land. Tuesday February 16, 2021, a few weeks after a first return from injury, he ruptured his Achilles tendon in training. Yacine Bammou will be absent for four to six months and his season is already over.
He had relaunched
Loaned to Turkey last season, the former Moroccan international took the opportunity to redo the cherry. “After a difficult year, I found good feelings again,” he said on his return to Normandy. In this month of August 2020, Yacine Bammou appeared determined to leave behind the bad vibes that had accompanied his debut at the club. “I couldn’t return what Caen gave me. I’m coming back with a view to helping my club and giving my all, because I am indebted to SM Caen who made the effort to welcome me. ”
–“The leader of our attack”
The two goals scored in the first three days of Ligue 2 had given the headlines for a new “flourished” Bammou. And it is an evening of injury, already, that Caen entered a black spiral, on December 1, 2020 in Pau (1-0 defeat). “The beginnings of our misfortunes, it is the injury of Yacine, will expose Pascal Dupraz later. He is the leader of our attack. “Chance or not, it will be necessary to wait until the Parisian is again holder so that the Stade Malherbe sets out again (a little) forwards, on February 2, 2021 in front of Valenciennes. That night, he scored his sixth and last goal of the season, the fourth from the penalty spot.
Caen scores more points with him
With him, Caen is not much more transcendent than without him. Yacine Bammou is not having a crazy season, even if his contribution is real. But the numbers are there. Stade Malherbe takes 1.6 points per game when it holds. The average drops to 0.9 when he is absent or replacing. It is not for nothing that a Bammou in good shape systematically starts the matches, with one exception (he had entered during the game against Guingamp). Pascal Dupraz trusts him and shows it, in addition to saying it.
–Unsaleable this summer?
The Caen coach, yet well provided on paper in attack, did not hide his satisfaction and relief at the end of the last two transfer periods. Yacine Bammou’s contacts had not materialized, while the striker had come a hair’s breadth away from leaving for Bulgaria on October 5, 2020. In a context of financial crisis and supervision of the wage bill, the club never concealed that the door was open for this big salary. A sale next summer, a year before the end of his contract in Caen, seems inevitably compromised.
It is up to the other attackers to assume
But before being financial, the consequence of this heavy injury will be primarily sporting for Caen. Casually, the ninth in Ligue 2 finds himself deprived of his top scorer. The other forwards, whether Alexandre Mendy, Benjamin Jeannot or Nicholas Gioacchini, have not really convinced more than him so far (seven goals between them). For the second time this season, their responsibilities will be increased. It is up to them to show that they are capable of assuming them …
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