- The defense of TFC was shattered Saturday in Grenoble (5-3).
- Freshly relegated, the main favorite of Ligue 2 finds himself in the red after two days.
- Even if the season is only just beginning, the situation is necessarily worrying for a team whose last success in official match dates back to October 30.
It goes on and on. Indisputable red lantern of Ligue 1 in 2019-2020, during a season truncated by the coronavirus, the TFC attacked the Ligue 2 exercise at the same pace: two defeats in two days. The offensive deluge from Grenoble (5-3) on Saturday followed the initial failure at the Stadium against the promoted Dunkirk (0-1).
This is only the beginning, okay ... There are 36 days to go, but the findings are necessarily worrying for a relegated who unashamedly displays his ambition: to immediately climb back into the elite, then regularly squat the Top. 8. An objective impossible to complete when your defense looks like a wall of dust.
📊 The @ToulouseFC had not conceded at least 5 goals during a match of @ Ligue2BKT since October 7, 1978.
It was in Gueugnon (7-1). Almost 42 years ago. # GF38TFC pic.twitter.com/SSX3m7kBXQ
In Isère, the Violets cracked in particular on three corners, including two in the first quarter of an hour. “If you have to score four or five goals to win a game, it will be complicated,” laments coach Patrice Garande. A question of balance between a failing rear guard and a resounding attack in an unprecedented 3-5-2 pattern, with a double from rookie Vakoun Bayo and a splendid volley from Janis Antiste (18).
"Hope" and "air holes"
"We are all going to question ourselves in a fairly consistent manner," promises the young striker, author of the first goal of his professional career. Garande speaks of "disappointment", "anger", but also "hope". “This group has potential, I have to find a way with the players to be able to express it from start to finish, without having air holes. "
Everyone is still thinking about the immediate recovery in Toulouse, the new bosses (the American fund RedBird Capital Partners and President Damien Comolli) in the lead. But, while the Englishman Rhys Healey, English D3 goleador, has just landed, the group seems above all to need a solid center-back in addition to the experienced midfielder already sought by the end of the transfer window on 5 October.
10 months without winning
For the time being, between the failure of certain executives and the inexperience of many players, it seems difficult to identify a framework within a formation whose last victory dates back 10 months. Since then, Saturday nights on Earth have been synonymous with defeats (20, for a single draw).
Good news: the next game will be on Monday, September 14th. After two successes to start, Sochaux will come to the Stadium to try to push the TFC into its doubts. If the Doubistes are successful, the crisis will not be far away for L2's biggest budget. It is written.
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