After the draw conceded against the last, Angers, which prevented the Champagne club from going back to the first part of the table, Will Still was quite annoyed. He will have to remobilize his troops before the trip to Lyon on Saturday.
In short observer memory of Will Still as coach of the Stade de Reims, barely eight months, the Belgian coach had never appeared so passably annoyed in front of the microphones. Last Sunday, after the draw conceded at home by his team against the Angevin red lantern (2-2), already condemned to Ligue 2 for several weeks, the technician delivered his shortest score to the press. And undoubtedly the most incisive. “We didn’t respect each other, we didn’t respect football and we don’t deserve to win that match,” said Still, already frustrated by his team’s defeat at Lens (2-1), a week earlier, when the dolphin of Paris SG had evolved in numerical inferiority for a good part of the meeting.
Last Sunday, against an opponent of a completely different caliber, the Rémois were caught twice, when they seemed to have done the hardest part thanks to Junya Ito in the first period, then Folarin Balogun in the second. “If the players are not able to defend after 20 seconds in the second period, this is what happens. At times, the general state of mind is not up to par. If you don’t redouble your energy and intensity, you put yourself in difficulty and cannot win matches. The energy and intensity are no longer the same as in the heart of winter, when Stade de Reims remained invincible for nineteen games. And that makes all the difference, Still is well aware of it: “We have the impression that we squeezed the lemon until there was nothing left and today, we feel it in our performances . »
Yunis Abdelhamid suspended
In addition to mental and physical fatigue, there have been many more injuries in recent weeks. Deprived of Thibault De Smet, Kamory Doumbia, Azor Matusiwa and Mitchell Van Bergen against the Angevins, the Reims coach will have to compose, Saturday evening, without his captain Yunis Abdelhamid, suspended against Lyon (7th). An opponent who still cherishes the slim hope of finishing in 5th place and who in any case gives himself the means, as his match against Monaco (3-1) proved. Still eleventh, the Rémois can still overtake Clermont, Nice and Lorient at the end of the two remaining days. It is still necessary that the men of Still have gasoline…
D1F: the Rémoises also in Lyon for the last
The Stade de Reims players are guaranteed to end the season in 6th place, a great performance they had already achieved at the end of the 2020-2021 season. They still have one game to play, and not the least, since they are moving, like the men’s section, on the lawn of Olympique Lyonnais, just crowned champion of France for the sixteenth time after their victory against Paris SG. , last weekend. Will the Lyonnaises have the lead in the game against the Rémoises, this Saturday May 27, at 5.30 p.m.?
2023-05-26 11:01:41
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