If I do say so myself .............
Apr 19, 2022
I have just send today's daily newsletter to subscribers and it was a really interesting email if I do say so myself !
It contained previews of four games, one of which you can read below and I spoke in the others about one team who had flown early (too early ?) to a key game and another who were ordered into training at 6 am on Easter Sunday !
The content in the newsletter is unique and will almost never be read elsewhere and this is the service who told readers nine years ago about a third tier team, with no history of success for 70 years, with a tiny playing budget and run down old stadium (albeit a beautiful one !) who were being run along EPL lines and unlike any other club in world football and that team is now on the fringe of a top ten finish in the Premier League !
We look for something out of the ordinary and most previews are unlike anything you will read elsewhere, where else would would you read about the starting time of training sessions, or read a newsletter which namechecked both the Sword of Damocles and Song of the Sirens as one clubgowi email did last week ?
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Ligue 2: Auxerre - Dijon
Dijon have nothing much to play for, but they are a team who have impressed at times once they managed to reset following relegation, which was something we discussed in a little detail and they could be a big player next season if head coach Patrice Garande is given time. They have played at 6th place level since he took charge and are an interesting prospect for 22/23.
Auxerre have to win, hope that Ajaccio slip up somewhere along the line and as a minimum, hold onto 3rd place, which will give them that home postseason game. They have won 7/9 losing only to the league leaders in that sequence and have not given up a BC in their last four starts versus teams not called Toulouse ! Dijon are actually coming off a 3-0 home defeat to Ajaccio when they did not have an attempt worthy of the name, they might have "peaked" , gone over the top, be mentally lying on a beach somewhere, whatever you wish to call it, should be tired after playing Paris FC, Ajaccio and Auxerre back to back to back, all top 4 teams, two on the road.
In very early season I wrote ............
Auxerre opened with a 2-1 win away to Amiens, they trailed at half time after falling out of the blocks, but dominated statistically after the break when they piled on the pressure. This is a big club, who should never have been out of the top flight for so long (this is their 8th season in L2) , but last season was their best finish and their second under talented and vastly experienced head coach Jean-Marc Furlan, who knows how to get out of this division (four L2 promotions). Under him they have finished 11th then 6th and JMF has a habit of promotion in his third year at a club, he did it with Brest as recently as 2019 and I would have seen Auxerre as a major contender and they still might be . However, they have some financial restrictions placed on them ( DNCG regulations) and they can only bring in free transfers, which to be honest, is what many teams are doing in any case, so is perhaps, not the punishment it once might have been. The loss of Mickael Le Bihan and Kevin Fortune is bigger (but will free up some salary) and they appeared to start with a false nine last week, but a more natural 4-1-4-1 today (which was the formation that Paris used last week) I suspect, with Lassine Sinayoko who helped turn things around from the bench last week, surely starting up top. They look to have good attacking options from midfield and out wide and I do expect a striker to come in before the end of the month. I like the signing of Gaetan Perrin who was good in a poor Orleans team and he has a quality background (Lyon) .
A week or so after that I updated with .........
Auxerre signed Gaetan Charbonnier from Brest this week and he will surely slot straight into that striker role we discussed earlier this week, he is very experienced and has a goal contribution (goal or assist), every 132 minutes across 170 Ligue 2 appearances, every 89 minutes (!) in Brest's 18-19 promotion season when he worked under Jean-Marc Furlan (see above) and won the golden boot award with a whopping 27 goals (four teams scored just 30 or fewer total !) . He played mainly from the bench last season in Ligue 1, but scored six goals and he could be revitalised back in the second tier and a 20 goal campaign in this team is far from impossible.
Charbonnier is probably not going to score 20 goals, but he has 14 which is 3rd highest in L2, he has missed the last three starts (suspended) but is back in the squad today and will be hungry and with something to prove (if selected) after the team scored four on the road last week in his absence.
Auxerre will have to deal with former "star" MLB ( see above) but surely know all about him , the visitors are without suspended CB Senou Coulibaly and injured veteran DM Lucas Deaux (winless in six, four defeats in his absence) and that weakens the defensive spine considerably.
2 units Auxerre -1 ball 2.90 asian line.
Auxerre : Théo De Percin, Donovan Léon, Carlens Arcus, Quentin Bernard, Alexandre Coeff, Paul Joly, Jubal, Théo Pellenard, Mathias Autret, Gauthier Hein, Iyad Mohamed, Hamza Sakhi, Birama Touré, Alexis Trouillet, Gaëtan Charbonnier, Rémy Dugimont, Gaëtan Perrin, Lassine Sinayoko.
Dijon :Allagbé, Reynet,Benchaa, Congré, Ecuele Manga, Fofana, Ngouyamsa, Touré, Traoré, Ahlinvi, Jacob, Pi, Sammaritano, Younoussa, Dobre, Le Bihan, Philippoteaux, Scheidler.
Good luck !
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