Football, National 2: Mathieu Duhamel, the winning return of the goleador

He had played his first minutes in the Beauvais jersey three days earlier, during the last half hour in Bobigny (1-1), without being able to influence the scenario of the meeting.

This Saturday, during the Picard derby in front of Saint-Quentin, Mathieu Duhamel took advantage of his first tenure to mark the spirits.

Well served by Ismaïl Haddou in the box, the 36-year-old center forward equalized, showing his people the way to the first victory of the season (4-2).

Hit to an ankle and then to the adductors during preparation, the flagship rookie of the summer transfer window of Beauvais had missed the first two league games.

Of course, Duhamel savored his return to business.

“For a striker, it's always good for morale, especially since it's been almost a month since I had not played, he welcomes.

Physically, you need time to recover, it will come little by little.

The more I play, the better I will be.

I ran a lot, I tried to weigh on the opposing defense and bring impact and power.

And I got a great pass from Isma.

It's funny, before the match, I showed him a passage from an Arsenal match and a pass from Özil to Aubameyang.

At the end of the match, I called him Özil (smile).

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Efficiency, the key word of his career

His coach, Sébastien Dailly, also appreciated the performance of his new striker.

“We missed his athletic impact in the first few games,” says the technician.

The players opposite do not defend the same way with him.

I'm glad he scored.

And then when a boy like him is still fighting in the 88th minute, you couldn't understand that a youngster wouldn't.

“Because Mathieu Duhamel does not really have the same pedigree as his teammates.

With his 30 matches in Ligue 1 (10 goals) and 196 in Ligue 2 (79 goals), the former center-forward of Caen and Evian Thonon Gaillard, with whom he played in the elite, is a star within the oisien workforce.

But it was with the determination of a young first that he accepted the Beauvaisian challenge this summer, after a two-year break in Grand-Quevilly, in R 1 then in N 3. “I came here for a sporting project and human, explains the striker.

I live in Rouen, if it takes an hour and a half to come, it's for the love of football.

I also needed to find a certain level, I was bothering a bit.

I also saw that there was something that stood out in this club.

And I want to help him find a more appropriate level.

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To do this, the co-best director (24 goals) of Ligue 2 in 2014-2014 with Caen, tied with Tourangeau Andy Delort (now in Montpellier), obviously has qualities to spare.

“I will bring my aggressiveness, my niaque and all my experience, he promises.

I feel that here there is a lot of respect towards me, my career.

There are also expectations.

And scoring shows my teammates that they can count on me.

“Because scoring is what the goleador can do best.

“Efficiency is the word that sums up my career,” smiles the person concerned.

My friend, Alaeddine Yahia, used to say that I was not a striker, but a goalscorer.

I don't care about being handsome.

If I can score twenty pointard goals (sic), I will.

There is no more… "