MHSC-Nice: “This is how we're going to get there”, in La Mosson the Montpellier residents want to persist in their renewal

Depuis l’arrivée de Jean-Louis Gasset, La Mosson et sa Butte poussent de plus en plus fort derrière le MHSC. Midi Libre – JEAN-MICHEL MART

Le redressement de Montpellier passe par la confirmation de ses progrès à domicile et une victoire devant Nice, dimanche 15 décembre, à 15 h.

Du “pigeonnier”From Bollaert, Jean-Louis Gasset has seen it all. Suspended following his exclusion against Lille, the Montpellier coach has been a spectator of his team's impotence away from home. In Le Havre (1-0), in Saint-Étienne (1-0) or Sunday in Lens (2-0), as in the four previous away games, they returned empty-handed. In fact, Montpellier has no other choice. They are counting on the Mosson potion to initiate a rebound from the bottom of Ligue 1 and from a last place that they have now occupied for seven days. In front of Nice, a European team stripped of its feathers by multiple injuries, he hopes to walk this Sunday, on the beginnings of the recovery glimpsed against Brest (3-1) and Lille (2-2).

“If we take three points against Nice, we will have taken seven points in seven matches, that's the pace of a club that maintains itself. To do that, we absolutely have to beat Nice”, warns Jean-Louis Gasset. And if Montpellier continues shortly after the break against Angers, it could even tip over halfway through the championship with fourteen points.

The Ligue 1 standings

With the disappearance of Louis Nicollin and his out-of-the-way companions, La Paillade has shed its bad boy clothes to put on a proper outfit. “Our image is now within the norm”, observes a major player. So, Jean-Louis Gasset is taking out the old recipes to simmer the “devil's pot” under yesterday's fire. He is awakening the old demons of La Mosson and reconnecting with the supporters. When the Ultras of Butte Paillade descended on Grammont at the end of October to shake up the squad and revive the players' self-esteem, he didn't balk.

The home finals of some ?

Backed by his legitimacy, this actor from La Paillade, now aged 71, took care to involve them in their mission and to unite everyone in his wake. The victory against Brest (3-1) and the draw snatched against Lille (2-2) outlined a path to follow towards redemption.

The probable compositions of MHSC-Nice.

“It's the benchmark, it's what we're holding on to. We took four points against the Europeans in three matches at La Mosson. Those days, we did things a little better. We couldn't let the opponent come and get (points) so easily, we had to find the state of mind and a crowd, which we brought with us”, he says happily. While waiting to bring back the fever of this stadium. “We need La Mosson to become a somewhat tough place for others again. That's the mindset we'll have to have against Nice and until the end of the season. That's how we have to be, that's how we're going to get there.”

Gasset is determined to rebuild this base because at the dawn of the next transfer window (January 1 – February 3), his team is swimming in the ephemeral. It can be patched up to wipe out the deficit, restore budgetary balance and survive in Ligue 1. The main summer market values ​​(Joris Chotard, Mousa Tamari, Becir Omeragic, etc.) are perhaps preparing to say goodbye to La Mosson. For Chotard, born in the bowels of La Paillade, everyone prepares their handkerchiefs.

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