Held in check by the last, Metz during the 35th day, the MHSC is still looking for the light.
It is a joy that speaks volumes. Sunday May 1, after having equalized in additional time, taking over a cross from a Sacha Delaye who returned with a drool on his lips, Elye Wahi let a form of rage burst. That of having converted his opportunity and that above all of having avoided the worst in additional time against the red lantern of L1, Metz (2-2).
Thanks to the 10th goal of his nugget, thanks also to a header from Arnaud Souquet from elsewhere, Montpellier escaped a third defeat in a row which would have looked like humiliation. With this reaction, going from 2-0 in the 79th minute to 2-2, a first so late in a match since 2011, the Hérault group gave a start of pride.
But this end, always insufficient, does not erase the disturbing decline. It also does not interrupt the black series of six games without a win (2 draws, 4 defeats), despite the hopes of recovery reset to zero each week.
Four points less than last season
“The state of mind is not bad. In pain, the players are aware that they are not good together. For now, they can’t do it, but I haven’t given up”assured Olivier Dall’Oglio, Sunday, both affected and angry.
As asserted by The Team, the technician always enjoys the confidence of his managers. But the 16 defeats in 35 days – a first since 2015-16 – and the overall performance of the last few months parasitize the balance sheet and the climate around a formation that its public and its Ultras no longer spare.
Sunday, the word “D2” was written red on white by the Butte, as a warning of a danger to come. Montpellier is not there yet but it is bogged down in a negative end to the season that the announcement of injuries to Téji Savanier and Jonas Omlin highlighted. And that Rémy Cabella’s ray of sunshine cannot erase on its own.
Behind the scenes, the club is busy preparing for the future and building its future team in which the desire is to add more athletic profiles, slipped ODO the day before yesterday.
In a contrary context, not helped either by the vagueness around the extension of Savanier, the MHSC nevertheless only has 4 points less than last season at the same stage. An astonishing paradox which underlines as much the quality of its first phase as that, conversely, of its second half of the season. A paradox that speaks volumes.
