“Brest my good surprise, Monaco my big disappointment”
Zapping but! Soccer club The duel of the week
“In the least publicized clubs in Ligue 1, I fell in love with a team: Stade Brestois. On the arrival of Michel Der Zakarian, it was nevertheless very badly started with these 11 games in a row without success to start the championship. This is where we realize how fast things can go in football.
We are considering Brest to fight for the maintenance and there was this crazy series of six wins that completely changed the outlook. I’m not saying Brest is off the hook. They may very well relapse on recovery. But there is when a series with good matches and play … I wanted to highlight this comeback which, for me, is one of the same highlights of this first half of the season.
“We no longer really know where to locate AS Monaco”
In the disappointments, we can also talk about AS Monaco. If the main club did the job in the Europa League and came out on top of a complicated pool with Real Sociedad and PSV Eindhoven, its performances in Ligue 1 bear little resemblance to those of OL. Unlike Lyon, which changed a lot in the offseason, ASM has not moved too much. Last year, Niko Kovac had managed to find the words. There, with a practically similar workforce, it is more sluggish.
Today, we no longer know where to situate AS Monaco, or where this team will go … I think that, when we are lucky to have such an incredible squad in terms of quality and quantity, we cannot be satisfied with the first half of the season completed. Today, Monaco seems quite far from Marseille, Nice or Rennes. Teams like Strasbourg or Lens offer more things and it’s still quite surprising. Will the European Cup save them? In any case, for the moment, it is a big disappointment. I imagine this team easily in the Top 3 … “
to summarize
Denis Balbir liked the energy of Stade Brestois in its rise in the standings. On the other hand, our consultant was disappointed by AS Monaco on which he was betting a lot in Ligue 1. Here is our melting clubs of December 24, 2021.