End of the season cannot be synonymous with relaxation, especially when you are still at the foot of the podium like AS Monaco. The Monegasques, who face Angers this Sunday at 1 p.m., will therefore do so without Wissam Ben Yedder, dismissed by Philippe Clement for the match and for disciplinary reasons, according to The Team.
The daily reveals that the captain of the Principality club, the club’s top scorer this season in Ligue 1 (17 goals), is paying the price for an absence from the tactical meeting scheduled for Saturday during the day, before the training session which took place at the Monegasque center of La Turbie. The French international was present at the training session that followed, “but his absence during the tactical briefing that preceded it led Clement to do without him”, writes the daily.
“Wissam Ben Yedder missed yesterday’s pre-training preparation meeting to prepare for this match,” Clement confirmed to Prime Video. Naturally, we cannot accept the absence of a player vis-à-vis the club and his teammates. We have rules for living together that we must respect. For this reason, the management and I decided that he was not summoned. »
A strong decision while Monaco, even if the match against an already relegated Angers SCO may not seem like the most difficult to tackle at the end of the season, still points to a frustrating 4th place (61 points), 9 points behind OM and a potential place on the podium while Lille, 5th, is not far away (59 points).
Monaco, which remained on two defeats in a row against Lens and Montpellier, during the last day, reassured itself by winning with a short header at the Raymond-Kopa stadium (2-1) with a goal, in particular, of Myron Boadu, Ben Yedder’s replacement.
