Through Aline Chatel
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Like its previous victory over Versailles, which was then undefeated leader of National 2, the reserve team of Stade Malherbe Caen Usually scores few goals and doesn’t concede many more. On Saturday 4 December 2021, she confirmed her offensive difficulties by not finding the fault in Chartres, but she added a defensive weakness rarely seen this season. Caen lost 4-0 in fifth place.
Reunion with Jean-Pierre Papin
These are two coaches from Pas-de-Calais who faced each other in Chartres. Fabrice Vandeputte, the weed control trainer, found a certain Jean-Pierre Papin. “We talked a little bit before the game. He’s a very nice person, very approachable. It’s simplicity itself.” The two men had already met a few decades earlier. “We had crossed paths when I was in the French military team and he was in the France A team. We had played against each other. We then saw each other again later when I was in internship at RC Lens. ” JPP, Ballon d’Or in 1991, reconverted to coach following his immense career as a goalscorer.
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“Not up to par in the duels”
The explanation is clear, according to Fabrice Vandeputte. “Contrary to usual, we have no not up to par in the duels. We paid dearly for it. Stade Malherbe also spent a little more than a half time at 10 against 11, this time confirming its poor propensity to take red cards, following the expulsion of Jason Ngouabi. The uncontrolled and overly aggressive tackle from the central defender, in an area devoid of danger, accelerated Caen’s collapse. On the free kick, Chartres doubled the stake after a pile-up of chances.
Sullivan (Péan) had to make two or three saves, there was a post and they finally managed to score. All this on the same action! So it was 2-0 at halftime.
Caen, who had conceded the opener in the heart of the first act, then tried to resist as much as possible. But Chartres struck again twice in the last quarter of an hour.
The start of the match could have changed everything
The young Caen, who felt the absence of Luca Boudonnet and Lamine Sy, suspended, had yet started the meeting on a good basis. They even had three very clear opportunities to take the advantage in the first quarter of an hour, with two heads off target from Robin Legendre and Brice Létan in front of a deserted goal, then a face to face lost by Evens Joseph. “The opening of the scoring would have made it possible to change the match, but that was not the case …”
Fabrice Vandeputte does not castigate the state of mind of his players. “This is the first time that we have been below in the conquest of the ball, he regrets. We will have to use this evening. Another complicated match awaits the Caennais, Saturday December 11, 2021 against a Saint-Malo team fighting for maintenance.
CAEN : Péan, Letan, Armougom, Ngouabii, Molchan, Fortunato, Najim, Hervieu, Legendre, Inoussa, Jsoeph. Alternates: Bolumbu, Mateyo, Mouniama, Raimbault, Obé (GB).
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