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On Wednesday evening, Niîmes Olympique and AS Saint-Étienne face each other in six days for the second time. Will there be a winner from the battle?
Nimes Olympique:
Nimes Olympique has had a hard time in the last few months: exactly nine of the last nine games have been won and the team has sank to a frightening shared fifteenth place with only one point ahead of the number eighteen. The PhD student’s major problem is the all but solid defense: no fewer than nineteen goals were collected in eleven duels and it is thanks to Paul Bernardoni that they are no longer there. In the handsome 1-1 draw against AS Saint-Étienne last weekend, it was largely due to the goalie who had a great save in the second half of the injury due to the home team having a point left in the game.
Bernard Blaquart, the trainer of Nîmes was pleased with the second half of his team: “The first half was bad on our side: we had to attack, but left too much space between the midfield and the attack. well and that’s why we are frustrated with this equal game. ” Blaquart can hardly have been dissatisfied with Rachid Alioui, the Moroccan striker of Les Crocodiles. Alioui made his first goal this season in his fourth appearance (all four times he entered the final stages). Hopefully for Blaquart this is a prelude to more goals for the Moroccan, who last season in 38 games in the Ligue 2 up to seventeen goals came.
AS Saint-Étienne:
The 1-1 draw of last weekend was not good news for the team from Saint-Étienne. Les Verts are now three games in a row without a win and have therefore seen Olympique Marseille and Olympique Lyonnais on the rankings. Moreover, the gap to the number seven of the ranking, RC Strasbourg, is only a point. Jean-Louis Gasset saw his team take the lead within a minute by a header from Rémy Cabella from a cross by Mathieu Debuchy, but then also saw that his team gradually lost control of the game.
“I knew that Nîmes would exert pressure and try to get as close to our goal as possible by playing long balls, but I would have expected more control over the match.” We omitted to make it 2-0 and so gave the Nîmes and their fans hope, we do not get a lot out of an away match, but the team spirit is good. “Gasset said after the draw. Remarkable choice of the trainer was that he left Robert Beric, who scored seven times in fifteen games last season, and left Arnaud Nordin and later Yannis Salibur on the right flank, two players who are not exactly known for their scoring ability.
Nimes vs St Etienne head to head matches
26.10.18 L1 Nimes St Etienne 1 : 1
07.01.18 COU St Etienne Nimes 2 : 0
09.01.05 COU Nimes St Etienne 3 : 2
26.03.02 L2 Nimes St Etienne 0 : 0
13.11.01 L2 St Etienne Nimes 1 : 0