• The future of ASSE coach Claude Puel is increasingly uncertain.

  • He could be fired after the spanking received by the Greens in Alsace this Sunday (5-1).

  • The Forézien club had already thought of parting ways before the derby against Lyon two weeks ago.

At the Meinau stadium in Strasbourg,

Claude Puel will he still be the coach of AS Saint-Etienne next Saturday in Angers?

The question deserves to be asked after the new disappointment of the Greens this Sunday.

A spanking received in Strasbourg (5-1) which comes a little more to seal their start to the season.

After ten days of Ligue 1, Mahdi Camara's partners only have four miserable points and have not won a single match.

Their only notable performance was this draw in the derby two weeks ago against Lyon (1-1).

After this start, of pride and play, a confirmation was awaited in Alsace.

It lasted twenty-six minutes… Pile me moment chosen by the Strasbourg defender Maxime Le Marchand to open the scoring with a header, following a corner (1-0, 26th).

A little against the course of the game.

"We were doing consistent things"

“I thought we had entered the game well, we had gained the upper hand, we had control. We were doing consistent things. Then afterwards, the bad scenario arrived with this set-piece, ”regretted after the game the Saint-Etienne coach. In a calm tone, admitting his frustration. Because it's true, his ASSE certainly deserved better at that time. Just like Youssouf perhaps did not deserve the red card after his committed tackle and especially poorly controlled on Ajorque (44th). Six minutes earlier, the midfielder had already caused the loss of his own on a goal against his side (2-0, 38th) ...

The Greens could then have plunged but remained in the game thanks to a tumble from Nordin, mown by the same Le Marchand in the area.

Except that the penalty of hope transformed by Khazri (2-1, 45th) was not followed by lasting rebellion.

Not easy outnumbered.

“The third Strasbourg goal (Gameiro, 69th) sounded the death knell.

From there, it was very difficult to come back, to re-impact.

We took a hit ", admitted Claude Puel, visibly upset for his group" which works well in training and offers things ".

“There was a lot of trouble in the locker room.

The players drool over it, ”added the technician.

Me who am a pro #Puel, this time I do not see many other alternatives than to replace it #ASSE

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“The coach has spoken. He said what he had to say, ”summed up Wahbi Khazri, obviously without revealing the content of the speech. His was combative. “There are a lot of things to correct but we are not going to lower our heads. It's hard but you have to assume. A message similar to that of his trainer, appeared posed at a press conference. “There's no point in rehashing, you have to stay in the action. We are not in negative thoughts, ”he said, not to mention his personal case.

Already on a wire before the derby, which had allowed him to obtain a reprieve, Claude Puel seems however more and more threatened.

His balance sheet has been catastrophic since the start of the season and his relationship with President Roland Romeyer has deteriorated, according to the daily L '

Equipe

.

His severance pay, estimated at around 4 million euros for him and his staff, was also a problem for a club in financial difficulties.

Will that be enough to save him another week?

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