RC Strasbourg has the second best attack in Ligue 1 this season, with 44 goals in 22 matchdays.
Within this offensive line, four players score a lot: Ajorque (10 goals), Diallo (9), Gameiro (8) and Thomasson (7).
Is this attack the best that the Alsatian club has known?
Response with players who have known other glorious years, such as Albert Gemmrich, David Zitelli and Cédric Kanté.
Bayern, Inter, Manchester City, PSG… and RC Strasbourg!
After about six months of competition, the Alsatian club has the 14th best attack in the major European championships.
The second in France, behind the Parisian club.
Almost unbelievable and above all historical.
It's simple, after 22 days of Ligue 1, or Division 1, Racing had never scored 44 goals.
Even during the only league title in 1978-1979, Gilbert Gress' men were "only" 37 pawns at the same stage of the season.
Led by a Gemmrich-Wagner-Tanter trio supported by Piasecki.
“It was a different era and it's hard to compare them.
Today, the game is going much faster, ”laughs the first city, chief gunner (17 goals).
With a style then very different from the current one coached by Julien Stéphan.
Here, no 3-5-2 or high pressing, rather individual marking on the opposing playmaker and overflow wingers ready to cause trouble.
“Joël [Tanter] made us score a lot like that,” continues Gemmrich, now president of the Grand-Est football league.
“Roland [Wagner] was certainly the most gifted of all of us and we swapped a lot in the center.
I also went to the side and my strength was to shoot with both feet.
Francis [Piasecki] also had a good shot and didn't hesitate to take his chance from distance, which we don't see anymore.
Today, we tend to bypass the defense to center.
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“Danger can come from anywhere”
Dimitri Liénard's partners are the perfect examples: they have so far scored 12 goals out of the 350 crosses attempted, a record in Ligue 1. But that's not their only weapon... "This year, we have the impression of see a German team play.
It goes in all directions!
“, appreciates the former defender of the club Cédric Kanté.
"There are a lot of ball players in this team, with a high football IQ, and they don't lock themselves into one role.
They are very versatile and we feel that danger can come from anywhere.
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The current consultant for Canal+ International readily admits that he had rarely seen such offensive animation at Racing.
Even during his stay and the famous 2004-2005 season of a certain Pagis-Niang duo.
The two had then respectively planted 15 and 12 goals… “In terms of talent and without insulting anyone, they were above the current attackers, he continues.
But we relied a lot on them in front and as soon as one was missing, it felt.
This season, we see that things are still going well, even if there are absentees.
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Habib Diallo left for the African Cup of Nations, Kévin Gameiro has taken over with 4 achievements in the last 3 games.
“He is a top player”, reacts David Zitelli, who also knew how to shake the nets in his time.
In 1996-1997, it happened 19 times, with Pascal Nouma not to be outdone (14 goals).
“We were playing in 4-4-2 and everyone was doing their job very well.
Pascal and I just had to take advantage of it, ”he minimizes, citing a few facilitating partners.
“Gérald Baticle who gave us caviars, Olivier Dacourt who had incredible talent or Alexander Mostovoi the season before, a virtuoso.
Should have been woken up with him!
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This year, the assists come from several players, Ibrahima Sissoko (5), Adrien Thomasson (4), Ludovic Ajorque (4) in particular.
Enough to accredit the image of a protean attack which delights every weekend.
Until when ?
“I wish them to beat our record of 70 goals in 1978, that will mean that we will have seen a spectacle again,” concludes Albert Gemmrich.
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