Epinal – AS Nancy Lorraine
This Saturday (6 p.m.), in Vagney
In general, coaches avoid sharing a warm-up match with a team that they are going to play in official competition shortly afterwards. The context has obviously not disturbed Epinal, nor the ASNL, the roads will not cross on August 18th. « It wasn’t a problem for me, nor for them. We are at the start of preparation, it is a great review of the workforce with eleven different from one half to the other. With tested items. Our National confrontation is in a month, a lot will happen between now and then, ”confirms Fabien Tissot.
Despite the short setback against the Belgians of Royal Francs Borains (2-1) on Tuesday, the Spinaliens showed some interesting things. Especially after the break when Sébastien Chéré’s teammates stepped on the ball. Facing the Nancy, the objective will be to confirm this first impression. With an identical perspective, namely thundering game time to everyone. If Boina continues his recovery, two men will enrich the cast: Antoine Claudot and Ismaël Camara.
Tests on both sides
This opposition will also give the opportunity to review in situation the goalkeeper of Bastia Borgo, Dorian Dahli. « He showed some interesting things on Tuesday, we’ll see how it goes against Nancy, » confirms Fabien Tissot. The spinalien technician, who did not keep the young Béni Nsango (Pontivy), will also take advantage of this match on the beautiful lawn of Vagney where the two formations had already crossed in 2022, to test a defender, left side. This is Koly Soumaré, 22-year-old Franco-Malian (1.74 m), passed by the Sochaux U19s, before migrating to Sannois Saint-Gratien (21 N2 matches, not the double confrontation against Epinal), then Valenciennes (who did not keep him). The interest of a dispute with the CAN U23 with Mali (3rd in the round).
On the side of AS Nancy Lorraine, barely five days after the resumption, Benoît Pedretti and his staff will not expect mountains and wonders from this first preparation meeting, insofar as the players on trial, who have come to fill the ranks to form a larger group, have only arrived in dribs and drabs in recent days (Chikh Touré on Tuesday, the quartet on trial on Wednesday, Gomel on Thursday, Diaby on Friday).
The idea is above all to start putting in place the principles of the game, the systems, working on the automatisms, and giving everyone a window of exposure. The Nancy staff will still have a sharper look at the four elements tested since midweek (attackers Beaka, Bnou-Marzouk, Bouabdelli and defender Konaté).
