- Red lantern in Ligue 1, the TFC can finally rely on its captain Max-Alain Gradel, back after more than two months of injury.
- Coué method or true conviction? In any case, the Ivorian striker claims to still believe in the maintenance of the Toulouse team.
Last in Ligue 1, 13 points from the roadblocker, the TFC will travel to Lille on Saturday with its third goalkeeper (Mauro Goicoechea) and with no back-to-back rights, due to injuries and suspension. Not enough to make the Mastiffs of Christophe Galtier tremble. But good news has come to light up the leaden sky on the Toulouse side: captain Max-Alain Gradel should be titular, a week after a return noticed for around twenty minutes after two months of absence, during the defeat against Nice ( 0-2).
💬 Denis #Zanko
"@ maxigr04del is a boy with character and personality. He was in all the good shots when he came back on Saturday. He is a major player in the group. He knows how to be decisive and can rock the games." # LOSCTFC
“He came into a very difficult context [led 0-1, the TFC was reduced to ten, before finding himself nine], and he allowed the team to be in the match until the end, appreciates coach Denis Zanko. He found himself in all the good shots. "
The 32-year-old striker, recovered from a muscle injury at the top of the left thigh, even obtained a penalty that he would have liked to have been shot. But it was Aaron Leya Iseka who harvested the equalizer, just before the second goal on the French Riviera.
" Many things have changed "
"When everything is going wrong, nothing smiles," admits Gradel. We are in this negative spiral. But on the content of the last three games, a lot has changed. The TFC is no longer the drunken raft of the end of the Kombouaré era. That said, since the arrival of Zanko at the controls in early January, he has still not won, and remains on a terrible record of 14 defeats and a draw, the worst of its history started in 1937.
Toulouse FC des Ivoiriens Max Gradel🇨🇮 and Ibrahim Sangaré 🇨🇮 in 2020:
1 point
2 red cards
It is the only team from the 5 major championships with more expulsions than points this year. pic.twitter.com/vlk0Yk7WHF
“The coach arrived with his way of working, his methods, ensures the Ivorian international left winger. Immediately, there was a change. He brought a lot of freshness and desire. He transmitted all this to us but also confidence. It shows in the matches we make. "
"Two victories and the speech would not be the same"
But not in the figures, therefore, while there are only 13 days left to postpone the inevitable. "Two victories and the speech would not be the same," sweeps Gradel. We will continue to believe in it as long as it is mathematically playable. More complicated things have been achieved. "In football, not that much ...
Logically, Zanko joined in the speech his leader, "a major player, decisive, who can switch games". Even if the former Stéphanois author of 19 goals in L1 in his first two Toulouse years had planted only three this season before his injury, next to two assists.
A score he may improve by the end of the season. In any case, the next penalty to be drawn should be for him. Even if it is not the exercise in which he shines the most, Gradel had scored one in the first leg against Losc (2-1). It was four months ago, October 19, and the TFC has not won L1 since.
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