MHSC: against Lyon, the roar no longer waits for Montpellier, in search of points

Savanier et Adams devront être à leur meilleur niveau pour faire vaciller l'OL. – Jean-Michel Mart

The MHSC, which has sounded the ’red alert", welcomes Lyon, this Sunday at 3 p.m., in a match which looks unbalanced on paper.

These are separate matches. Montpellier-Lyon: the poster lines up the orgies of goals – 17 in total since 2022, a record for the period – and interweaves the stories, starting with that of Loulou Nicollin the Pailladin with Gone roots.

A flamboyant past, the 4-1 of the first leg or the 5-4 of May 2023, the quadruplet of Wahi or that of Lacazette, which meets this Sunday the incandescent present of two teams with suddenly reversed trajectories. With the wrong slope for a disoriented MHSC.

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To get out of this black hole of a single success in eleven L1 matches, which placed him three points from the red zone, he decreed this week the state of emergency. The slap in the face too many against Nice (1-4), Wednesday in the Coupe de France, changed nothing in the situation in the championship. But it made him aware of the magnitude of the task, or that of the flaws, fourteen matches before the verdict.

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"If we don't consider that there is danger, we are completely wrong", said Michel Der Zakarian, Friday, pressing the button of a "red alert" pressed by an entire club. The field will tell if the intervention of Michel Mézy, before that of Der Zak, was heard by a locker room whose reaction is watched.

This team already did it, a year ago. Can she do it again ? This is the whole question posed by Mosson who returned to her Butte Paillade, after two matches behind closed doors, and loudly expressed her disappointment on Wednesday.

"These events can inhibit as well as create bonds between players. It's up to us to prevent a renewed confidence from the opponent", anticipates OL coach, Pierre Sage.< /p>

Sage: "They're not going to give up"

He will also have noted that the MHSC is recovering its strength. With Akor Adams, the same counter blocked in L1 since October 29, but also Arnaud Nordin, even lacking rhythm, or the Africans (Sylla, Kouyaté, Sacko), even disappointed with their CAN, he has other means . Even without a decisive Mousa Tamari in the first leg, and still retained in the Asian Cup, and even inferior on paper to those of a transfigured OL (read elsewhere).

"They are in the same situation as us. They have no right to relax, corrects Der Zak. "Just like us, they need points and they will show the values ​​that the Montpellier club represents. They're not going to give up and they're going to fight on the ground", Sage echoes.

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This Sunday, the MHSC moves forward at least with several certainties: Der Zak loves OL (5 victories and 22 goals with Montpellier, more than against anyone), at least as much as Lacazette la Paillade (14 goals).

Above all, even if he doesn't win, he has always risen to the level of his opponent this season (draws against Rennes, Nice, Lens, OM, Lille). This Sunday, he will have to surpass him. To get back in place before the reception of another competitor, Metz, the following Sunday. And to overcome the crisis of a winter by considering the worst. But roaring waits no longer.

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