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The deadline is approaching. There are only a few days left before their first meeting of the season. And if their trip to Metz at the start of the season is postponed until Monday 19 August, there is not much time left for the Bastiais to update their system. There have been many changesat the level of the group of players but also within the staff and management, which has been interesting this season.

And if it is difficult to draw the first lessons, one thing is certain: sport has started a new cycle, around a sensible sports policy, with a lot of work for weeks. “I am very satisfied with the pace of work at the club since I arrived, Benoit Tavenot announced to the media on Thursday. More the truth is the competitionand we will do everything to be ready.”

Time for the first options

Ten days before the restart, the Bastiais will be like that at the end of the evening (5pm) near the Raymond-Kopa stadium in Angers for a final preparation match, against a team that has just reached Ligue 1.

“This is our final rehearsal. Angers play in a different system than Metz, so there will be two different games in terms of set-up, warning to the coach. For the players, it’s what will matter almost 90 minutes. Since the preparation began, the whole group has been working hard and well. The mind is excellent. But from this meeting against Angers, we have to make the first choices because we are only traveling with eighteen people. Afterthe group called against the SCO may not be the Metz groupWhat’s important to me is maintaining a course of action over time.”

The Bastia coach who therefore wants the strength of a complete collection, where each player will be important at one point or another during the season. Regarding the squad, we are still waiting for a scorer and maybe another defender because Dumè Guidi is still not working. Just like Lisandru Tramoni, who signed at the beginning of the week, but will be booked. “Lisandru is a little late, specifying the coach. In Pisa, he stopped for twelve days after a minor muscle ailment. He is a talented player who will give us a lot. For us, it’s about getting him to his best athletic level as quickly as possible.”

After the campaigns against Gallia Lucciana (win 3-0), Balagne (win 2-1), Rodez (win 1-2), Annecy (win 3-1) and ACA (win 2- 1), made this final full-scale test still for Benoit Tavenot to make the final changes and perfect the automation, before the test by fire at Saint-Symphorien, a stadium that the coach is so familiar with…