Comment Monaco scuttled against Rodez in the Coupe de France
Aleksandr Golovin had the ball from qualification at the tip of his foot but he sent his shot on goal into the clouds. A price from which the ASM has never recovered, started by the young Soungoutou Magassa, whom no one will blame for having taken his responsibilities after an interesting first tenure but ended on the kneecaps.
Many others would be more to blame than him after this early elimination from the 32are final, but Philippe Clément refused to release the sulphate at a press conference. Just named he was disappointed and pissed off with his team’s last 25 minutes that he didn’t have”not recognized in his way of playing, in his intensity and in his quality.” Individual reproaches, the Belgian save them for later and in the privacy of the locker room.
Another catastrophic performance for Malang Sarr
There would be a lot to say, however, starting with the new catastrophic performance of Malang Sarr, a boy who never seems to learn from his mistakes and is in the process of convincing the Monegasque general staff on his own to urgently find a central defender to replace Benoît Badiashile. He is not the only culprit of this debacle, of course, since the entry without envy of Youssouf Fofana or that without flavor of Krépin Diatta are not far from scandalous.
“Betrayed” by their entrants, as much as by the decline of others, AS Monaco, offered by the first pro goal of Maghnès Akliouche and that full of rage from Wissam Ben Yedder, finally paid for their many missed opportunities and his terrible management of the match when the former red and white house Aymen Abdennour crucified Thomas Didillon, very good otherwise, at close range to equalize at 2-2.
The Tunisian had not played an entire match for ages and the Coupe de France is not even an objective for Rodez, who only thinks of his maintenance and appeared on the lawn of the very sparse Stade Louis- II with seven substitutes. The Ruthénois did nothing for a long time to create the feat on the Rock, defending very low to contain the Monegasque waves.
But ASM is not their first gift this season and Mendes was able to take advantage of total freedom to score with a header and close the gap just before half-time. Without a margin, Monaco never knew how to register the third but who would have sheltered him, thus leaving the way open for Rodez to write one of the most beautiful pages in the history of the club. Conversely, it is a major failure for the Monegasques who aspired to lift the trophy after the 2021 final and the semi-final of last season. We will have to get up quickly as a very important match looms on Wednesday in the league against Lorient (9 p.m.). It remains to be seen whether this ASM is capable of it.