Football: after Le Havre, Soyaux wants to find serenity in Dijon
FFaced with the promoted Le Havre, who swept him a fortnight ago at Léo Lagrange (1-4), Soyaux missed the opportunity to confirm his good start to the season.
A setback, the first at home, in the form of a stoppage, even if Michel Bradaia, the new coach, challenged the term Wednesday at a press conference. “It’s a continuation, not a halt because Le Havre is…
FFaced with the promoted Le Havre, who swept him a fortnight ago at Léo Lagrange (1-4), Soyaux missed the opportunity to confirm his good start to the season.
A setback, the first at home, in the form of a stoppage, even if Michel Bradaia, the new coach, challenged the term Wednesday at a press conference. “It’s a continuation, not a halt because Le Havre is a consistent team”.
Soyaux, who had just collected four points in two days, therefore, to the detriment of this zero point, slipped one place. To find himself 9th on equal points (4) with Dijon, 10th, where he goes on Saturday.
After having failed against a candidate for maintenance, Soyaux must avoid a new miss against Dijon, which is also playing its survival. Especially since behind this profile, Reims (6e), at home, who has taken to manhandling ASJ in recent seasons.
Soys in working mode
After the defeat against Le Havre, Michel Bradaia, successor to Stéphane Guigo, had indicated that he wanted to answer journalists’ questions quickly because he had ” work “.
Fifteen days later, his speech is not varied. “I was asked to come to find a game background, to be able to perform. it takes time. But in football, we don’t necessarily have it.
The neo-Sojaldicien takes a stern look at the first matches of his new team. “There is far too much waste in what we produce and this since the beginning of the season. I have watched the videos enough. Today, they have to work. It will pay. But when ? We have to give ourselves time. There, we are at seven training sessions per week ”.
There is far too much waste in what we produce and this since the beginning of the season.
Find a defensive base
While the defense had been the strong point of ASJ’s good start to the season (5 goals taken in four matches including Paris and Lyon), it exploded against Le Havre (1-4). The reason ? “ Out of four goals, we give them three. The first, I validate it, it is on a fast attack ”, respond Michel Bradaia. There is a bad positioning. The girls know it, they have talked about it a lot among themselves since.
It wasn’t much better against Bordeaux (0-3) in a friendly on Thursday October 20, even if it didn’t have the same value. Worrying? “I relativize. It’s just a football game. We give three goals but we still managed to do very badly in possession of the ball on sequences. This is the very positive point. They said it themselves, raises the technician.
Bad luck, Soyaux must also face in defense the absence of rookie Léonie Multari and Anna Clérac, injured.
Dijon, a similar level opponent
If, before facing each other, Soyaux and Dijon have compiled the same number of points (4), it is perhaps no coincidence that the two formations are currently equal.
Last year, Dijon had started the exercise stronger, and surprised Soyaux at Léo-Lagrange (1-2). The Charentaises had taken their revenge on the return (0-1) in February on a goal from Siga Tandia. Before styling the Dijonnaises of the ex-Angoumoisin Christophe Forest on the post on the final day by delighting them with their ninth place by one point. This summer, for the last preparation match of the two teams, Dijon had taken the upper hand (3-2).
Michel Bradaia is wary of a team “consistent, athletic, present in impact. It’s going to be complicated “. Defender Camille Collin witnesses a reaction: “It is by playing the ball that we can put them in difficulty. We will have to be solid defensively and create more chances than against Le Havre where we suffered too much”.