And if the story was written in advance? Last in the standings before the match, Saint-Etienne and his coach Claude Puel won 1-0 against Lyon in a rather dull game on Sunday night. Passed by Lyon between 2008 and 2011, Claude Paul began his mandate with a victory against the eternal enemy, which allows the ASSE to climb to the thirteenth place in the ranking.
But once the page of the victory turned, what should we expect from Claude Puel in the coming weeks? Lionel Rosso's guest on Sunday evening in Europe 1 Sport and journalist at Canal +, Laurent Jaoui came back on the choice of Monaco's former midfielder to join Saint-Etienne.
"For a very long time, he refused this status of savior and he refused to join a club during the season, he had agreed to join Southampton in the middle of the season, he is someone who builds in the long run, he will have to first to patch, rebuild and recover a group in doubt, "he analyzes.
But this is only one of the strings of Claude Puel's bow, according to Laurent Jaoui, who believes in his ability to straighten the green bar. "We can trust him on a long-term job, a vision.He is part of the top 5 French coaches.He won wherever he went, less in Lyon despite a semi-final Champions League." Claude Puel is someone who can build and who is there for the long term Will the two presidents give Puel time? This is one of the questions of the coming months. Claude Puel comes to revive and I think he's going to get AS Saint-Etienne out of the rut. "
Another guest of Lionel Rosso, So Foot journalist Javier Prieto Santos insists on the "grip" that Claude Puel will bring to Saint-Etienne: "It is a coach that does not let anything pass, it is in the detail and asks for the investment and it was clear that with Printant the players did not care.He was a bit like the confidant last season and the players saw him as the "nice grandpa," he says.