Can Mousa Tamari and MHSC still rebel against ASM ? Midi Libre – JEAN-MICHEL MART
Shaken by the defeat against Angers (1-3), Sunday, and more than ever last, MHSC hosts Monaco this Friday, January 17 (7 p.m.).
It's the first day of the rest of their lives. The one that comes after the “shock” and the “mission impossible” – or “practically”– by Jean-Louis Gasset, words uttered after the slap suffered by nine against eleven by the MHSC against Angers (1-3), last Sunday. Five days later, the reception of Monaco is a strange big gap for a red lantern still shaken by its rout against a SCO without genius but obliged to try everything against an ASM in the form of a big shot. Because even if everything indicates a sad end, the possibility of a surge exists. Because even the dead can get back up.
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“I want there to be this revolt, for the players to know that there is suffering around us. It's hard all the time to think only about that, to have a knot in your stomach, but until the end, we will fight”, promised the Hérault coach, Thursday, in a tirade far from his dejection, Sunday evening.
“The shepherd and the dog at the same time”
His turnaround may seem futile when his team has only taken 9 points in 17 games, and is seven points behind the play-off team, Saint-Étienne. But with “51 points at stake” and “one game out of two” to win by May 18, as he pointed out, Gasset is not giving up.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000The increasingly negative climate around the club, with a probably frosty reception tonight, after the banners on Sunday, is not helping. No more than the situation in the offices or a group that pushes to impotence, with this desperate way of showing things (Lyon, Brest, Lille, Nice) then squandering them. “There is no acquired with him. You always have to be in it and be the shepherd and the dog at the same time, because they need that”, points out the technician, a few weeks after regretting having “a small fire extinguisher” when the situation would require a “Canadair”.
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A lost first leg but reference
Since then, the fire has continued to redouble. Can these Montpellier players suddenly rise to the level of Golovin or Akliouche when they have just suffered the law of Abdelli or Lepaul ? With them, nothing is impossible, even if the best is the least frequent.
In the first leg in the Principality, at the end of September, they had achieved it, with one of their best matches this season, finished by a goal conceded in the 98th minute (2-1). As in Lyon recently.
Monaco's form, winner of only one of their last seven matches in all competitions – against the amateurs of Union Saint-Jean –, and eliminated Tuesday in Reims from the Coupe de France (1-1, 3-1 tab), offers them a breach. ASM is also the bête noire of a MHSC (read the figure) that rarely digests the Rock.
This Friday's, a day when everything is allowed, is an Everest. Do Savanier and his partners want to hurt themselves to climb it ? “I warn you, we're not going to give up”, Gasset again certified, summoning “the spirit of the house”. If this team has it, it must show it. To come back from the dead.
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