Ligue 2: Nîmes Olympique launches its season in Béziers, against Toulouse
Saturday July 2, at 6 p.m., at the Sauclières stadium in Béziers (Hérault), Nîmes Olympique (Ligue 2) is playing its first friendly preparation match against Toulouse FC, promoted to Ligue 1 this season.
Twenty-eight days before the resumption of the Ligue 2 championship and the reception, on Saturday July 30 at 7 p.m. at the Costières stadium, in Caen, one of the favorites of this exercise for accession to L1, Nîmes Olympique is playing , this Saturday in Béziers, the first friendly match of his season against Toulouse FC, a formation which has joined the Elite this season.
Nicolas Usaï, coach: ”Distribute playing time and be able to fill the boxes”
“This match against Toulouse is simply to end the week of training, explained this Friday, after an intense two-hour session, Nicolas Usaï, the crocodile coach. This morning, they have already done splits with a lot of athletic work. After that, it’s still a game. So, there is always this particularity of being in front of an adversary. We may be out of step with each other’s physical form, but the idea is to distribute playing time and be able to fill the boxes…
In Béziers, a group of twenty-one Crocos (including three goalkeepers: Maraval Dias, Nazih) will make the trip. With Yassine Benrahou, hit in the toe during the Wednesday session but able to make the trip. But also in the presence of Benoît Poulain, “who will come to Béziers and go on stage with us, in Mende”, underlines the coach.
The seven recruits on the bridge
On the other hand, the attackers Elias Omarsson, affected in the psoas, and Mahamadou Doucouré “who has isokinetic tests (to evaluate the recovery of the muscular force) to make to advance in his reathlétisation”, specifies the technician, will be absent in the Hérault, this Saturday.
The seven recruits Maraval, Labonne, De Gevigney, Vargas, N’Guessan, Benezet and Tchokounté were to be seen at work against TFC, as well as three of the four youngsters, Nasraoui, Zampa and Boudache (only the goalkeeper Malafosse will not be used). “From what we said the coach, we should play half time, in principle,” said midfielder Ilian Boudache.
As for the fact that a team called ”typical” emerges from this first meeting, Usaï wanted to be clear and affirmative: ”No, no, in the first two matches (see note below), there There is only one idea, the athletic aspect and allowing the players to fill up physically. Against Toulouse, the goal will be to distribute playing time and put the best configurations.
The 21 players called up against Toulouse FC
Dias, Maraval, Nazih (goalkeepers). Burner, Guessoum, Labonne, De Gevigney, Poulain, Sadzoute, Vargas, Ueda, Nasraoui, Fomba, N’Guessan, Benrahou, Zampa, Boudache, Eliasson, Koné, Benezet, Tchokounté.
Blessed: Omarsson, Doucouré.