Nine days before the start of the L2 season at the Bonal stadium in Sochaux on Monday August 1, Thierry Laurey had chosen to split his group in two.
Without Name, Camara who will be suspended and Chergui spared (foot injury), the starting lineup lined up against AC Ajaccio was close to the one who should start at Sochaux.
The other part of the group faced Créteil (N2) a little later in the evening.
Faced with AC Ajaccio promoted to L2, which also fielded an eleven which also looked like a typical team (with its recruits Hamouma, Mangani, etc.), Paris FC evolved into a 4-1-4-1 with rookie Pierre- Yves Hamel at the forefront.
The former Lorient player is behind the goal scored by Julien Lopez (1-0, 46th) after a one-two.
The staff have not yet chosen the goalkeeper
The Croatian Ivan Filipovic played with the "A" team against AC Ajaccio while Vincent Demarconnay, 39, who resigned for a year, kept the goals against Créteil.
A hint for the start of the season?
The staff is still in reflection.
“At the level of the guards, it is still on stand-by, explains Thierry Laurey.
We are going to take the time to analyze all of this this week, watch the videos of the matches.
The best will play, it won't be a problem, like last year when I remember we took Ivan to prepare the succession of Vincent.
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Recruits already well integrated
Under the eyes of his two children and his wife, Paul Lasne, who returned to his former club, AC Ajaccio, has already behaved like the boss of the team.
The former midfielder of Montpellier and Brest, nearly 300 games in L1, made a mobilizing speech just before kick-off and talked a lot during the match.
He also touched a lot of balls.
South African Lebobang Phiri also showed a lot of activity in midfield.
In attack, Pierre-Yves Hamel did not score but he is starting to find his marks in the collective.
Transferred from Bastia (L2), Julien Le Cardinal gave a very solid performance as right-back and was also very attacking.
Finally Alamami Gory, who signed definitively for two years after his loan last season from Cercle Brugge, entered in the last half hour.
He is not yet ready just like Mehdi Chahiri who played with the 2nd team against Créteil.
“Offensively, we are still missing something, recognizes Laurey.
But it makes sense.
Gory has just returned and Guilavogui
(adductor surgery in June)
has just started to resume with the group but without performing all the exercises.
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The good Karamoko surprise
This is the good surprise of this preparation.
Arrived at Paris FC last year from Saint-Étienne, Setigui Karamoko, 22, had evolved with the reserve (N3).
Still under amateur contract, the great central defender of 1.90 m joined the L2 group since the resumption on June 20.
He performed well in friendly matches like this Saturday against AC Ajaccio.
If Samir Chergui will certainly be restored to play for Sochaux, Karamoko should appear in the group of 18 and constitute an alternative in central defense while awaiting the return of Ousmane Kanté (operated on his Achilles heel) in November.
Laurey asks for time
With this victory, Paris FC completes its preparation phase with 4 successes (Versailles, Red Star, Boulogne-sur-Mer, AC Ajaccio), a draw (Lens) and a defeat (UNFP).
"We have to be honest, we're not ready yet," said Thierry Laurey who nevertheless said he was more "serene" than after the setback against the UNFP (1-2) last Saturday.
“Beyond the result, I prefer to have seen what I saw tonight against AC Ajaccio than against the UNFP which was a football mush.
The mood was different.
This match against AC Ajaccio allows us to continue to move forward.
We have more chance of progressing playing like that than against the UNFP.
It was a match that stood.
It's always interesting to have a good match like that before the resumption of the championship.
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Match sheet
PARIS FC - AC AJACCIO: 1-0 (0-0).
Aim.
Lopez (46th).
Paris FC:
Filipovic (Nkambadio, 69th) - Le Cardinal, Bernauer (Gueho, 80th), Karamoko, Hanin - Mandouki (cap.) - Iglésias, Lasne, Phiri, Lopez (Gory, 69th) - Hamel.
Entr.
: Laurey.