Tiny Little Créteil Preview

By: Martha | November 11th, 2008

I was reading — by which I mean “looking at the charts and the pictures” — La Gazzetta dello Sport this morning, and they had a piece comparing the top clubs in all the major European leagues, in which the top of each table was included. And Nice were there! For some reason, seeing that in a foreign paper (you can tell it’s from Gazzetta because it’s pink) rather than on French websites made it much more real.

And, in news about which no one but me really cares, I finally finished downloading the Lorient match, just in time for the Créteil game. Despite how much falling behind upsets my OCD tendencies, I’m still going to watch it, and hopefully will have a report that goes beyond “Apam was awesome! Letizi made saves!” up tomorrow.

Until then, here’s the squad for today:

Gardiens: Moreau, Ospina
Défenseurs: Apam, Cid, Diakité, Hognon, Kanté, Rool
Milieux: Echouafni, Faé, Hellebuyck, Jeunechamp
Attaquants: Bamogo, Ben Saada, Modeste, Mouloungui, Ozokwo, Quansah
Absents: Coulibaly, Traoré, Rémy (blessés), Adu, Barul, Gace, Letizi, Moussilou (choix de l’entraîneur)

Vincent Hognon is wary of Créteil because they will be “quite disinhibited” going into a match they’re supposed to lose, but he’s fired up any way and hopes he’ll be in the team. Créteil, meanwhile, who have one win and two losses in the Championnat National this season, with a mind-blowing 11 draws — are poised to pull a massive upset — I don’t know about anyone else, but after what happened to Villarreal in their last cup match, I’m not taking anyone lightly. Not surprisingly, Antonetti isn’t, either — there’s been scouting and studying of tape, and constant reminding of his team not to underestimate their opponents. Hopefully it’ll all have gotten through to whoever he puts out there today — he’s promising a lot of changes from Saturday’s team, from the goalkeeper on out. Maybe we’ll even get to see Quansah, depending on how things go.