Before Monaco – Clermont Foot, Yohann Magnin (CF63) proclaims his pleasure to play again, in addition to Ligue 1: “I waited so long for this! »
“It was early August. We were all in the locker room. We were all packing our bags. Except that the others, it was to go to Bordeaux, to play the club’s first Ligue 1 match, and me, to go to Clairefontaine, for my rehabilitation “: with Yohann Magnin, the voice is always calm, the words thoughtful, even elegant, but not without flavour, even if the “quotation marks” are always indicated when using a trivial formula, however rare it may be: facing the microphones, the Clermontois always takes care to have some staying power.
“I had pain all over my body”
But at the beginning of August 2021, therefore, he is not yet ready to put on that of a football player: “I am then at a crossroads: I had spent 3 months, he there were still 3 to go. This is the worst moment, because we have measured how long 3 months is and how far we still have to go. I barely resumed the race, I had pain everywhere. Pains that I could not even have imagined that I could one day have in my body…”
At the exposed position which is his in the hinge of the middle that he composes with Johan Gastien, in charge of cutting the trajectories and the opposing races, of winning the duels which will facilitate the task of the four behind, Yohann Magnin always has “everything given”.
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The rise in Ligue 1 celebrates on crutches in Caen
But on April 14, his body, more specifically his right knee, told him: “A little too much, even
“. It was against Amiens. In Ligue 2. For once, the rise, the footballer from Orcet, will celebrate it well in the central circle of the D’Ornano stadium, in Caen, at the end of the match… but playing with his crutch.
To play “really” on a Ligue 1 pitch, he will have to wait for the last quarter of an hour of a defeat in Reims, at the very end of November, suffered on a but conceded in the 91st minute. Not as cruel as a kicking knee, but still, as a back-to-school gift…
So, as if to make up for it, fate will offer him Lens, just behind, as a starter for his return to Montpied, and… with a goal, for a strong, very strong, “emotion sequence”. For the football effect, yes, but also for reasons that are widely known…
“I’m happy to continue”
Except that the injuries are linked in the workforce, so we immediately needed him, first in his midfield position, therefore, but very quickly in that of … central defender.
Facing Reims, last Sunday, the team against which he had made his return after his injury in mid-April, on November 28, in the first leg, Magnin took over midfield, before coming back down… central defender, as during of his previous matches, due to the exclusion of Seidu.
In total, after Reims, Yohan Magnin will accumulate 4 times 90 minutes in the league and a match and a half in the Cup: “Physically, it’s true that I made a lot of effort to come back but for the moment, I don’t don’t feel too much, I’m happy to continue. You just have to be vigilant about recovery, with the implementation of additional proprioception work, reactivation of the muscles around the knee, ischios, quadriceps…”
And in terms of concentration, one of the major requirements of the coach? “It’s true that when you’re absent for a long period, you can come back to training, it’s still sequences of 10, 12, 15 minutes, it’s not the same as having to be concentrated on 45 or two times 45 minutes. And already that I had no margin compared to the level of Ligue 1, as a midfielder… As a central defender, I had to be extra vigilant! »
But this Ligue 1, all the same? “Honestly, the beginning of the season, I experienced it much more badly than well. I was obviously very happy for my teammates, very happy! But it was complicated, I even had a lot of trouble getting back to the stadium, giving my news… ”
“The coach often tells us: “We are in Ligue 1, you have to bite your teeth into it!” »
They are now very good. Question of (strong) character, too: “It’s formative, it’s strong moments, which serve me today on the ground. I am told to be a central defender, for my second game? Well, I had no doubts, I’ve waited so long for this, that I could be put in any position! I’m so happy to be able to play again! Ligue 1 is an incredible dream and all this suffering serves me, in fact, to reflect on the positive, to be determined, to always see higher! »
An “engine”, too, for a group that has gone through some torment? “I don’t feel the group used mentally. But I can also try to instil this good mood, this joie de vivre. And as the coach often tells us, and I became aware of that, too, during my injury: “Hey! We are in Ligue 1, guys! Even if we lose matches, we are in Ligue 1, we are Clermont Foot and we are in Ligue 1! You have to bite your teeth! »
It would have been surprising all the same if Pascal Gastien did not have, once again, the last word…
Rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
Jean-Philippe Beal
Monaco in three points according to Yohann Magnin
ATTACH. “It’s going to be a big game. Me, I already played Lens (on December 1st, the first at Montpied and as a starter since his return with the pros) but it’s true that Monaco is perhaps one of the first top-top teams in Ligue 1 that I will face. »
STAKES. “It is important, this match, for the dynamics. We know that a week with 3 games is not easy, so if we could start with a result, it could only be beneficial for the next two. »
OPPONENT.
“It’s a team that has encountered a lot of runs, players who take depth, are technically skilled and who run a lot. So we will have to respond physically and then technically, find the difficult solutions to put them into place. »