Chotard and Guéguin back, Omeragic and Fayad out of action plus a decimated MHSC to go to Reims

Becir Omeragic n’est pas du voyage du MHSC en Champagne. Midi Libre – ALEXANDRE DIMOU

S’il récupère bien le milieu et l’ailier, l’entraîneur montpelliérain Michel Der Zakarian compte onze absents pour le déplacement à Reims, dimanche, selon le groupe dévoilé ce samedi 5 octobre.

Where will the carnage end? ? While it has recovered Joris Chotard and Axel Guéguin, Montpellier HSC will be deprived of Becir Omeragic and Khalil Fayad, surprise absentees from a squad cut by eleven players in total, according to the group revealed on Saturday, on the eve of facing Reims in Champagne on Sunday (17h).

According to our information, the Swiss defender felt pain behind a knee while the reason for Fayad's withdrawal is unknown. In any case, they join the nine already known absentees: the suspended Coulibaly and Nzingoula, the injured Issoufou, Jullien, Kouyaté, Maamma, Sainte-Luce, Tamari but also Ferri, sidelined and expected in reserve.

Dzodic, fallback solution?

Result, faced with this epidemic of forfeits, Michel Der Zakarian has called up 19 players. Among them, many youngsters: Chennahi, Mamilo, Ndiaye but also Dzodic who could experience his second appearance in L1, after the one in Rennes (3-0). In Brittany, the absence of Omeragic, who had gone to Switzerland to be at his father's bedside, had already been added to a list of nine players on the sidelines.

In Reims, where Okumu is back, Moscardo and Abdoul Koné could be the only absentees. A world with Montpellier.