National: the Vasseur effect continues at Versailles, winner at Cholet

The Versailles players come to greet their twenty supporters who have made the trip to the very uncomfortable Pierre Blouen stadium in Cholet. By winning (1-0) on the synthetic of the red lantern who had changed coach for the 3rd time this season at the start of the week, the Versailles team carried out a good operation with a view to maintaining. It will obviously be necessary to fight until the end but Versailles, now 10th, has a small cushion of three points ahead of the red zone.

For Jean-Luc Vasseur, these are a perfectly successful debut. For his return to the National eleven years after moving up to L2 with Créteil, the 55-year-old coach obtained 7 points out of 9 with two away successes. Vasseur has breathed new life into this moribund team in 2024 and established real defensive rigor.

Of course, this match will not go down in history. Very closed and rather poor technically, he was ruled out on a corner in the 86th minute. Even if he no longer has his 20-year-old legs, Jeremain Lens still has his magic foot. His corner finds the head of Lassana Diakhaby. This is the third goal this season for the 28-year-old central defender, a Mauritanian international who arrived last summer from Martigues.

For its first match, Versailles will face Niort, runner-up to Red Star, on Monday March 25 (9 p.m.) at Jean-Bouin. To prepare for this match, the staff will be deprived of five players called up for selection: Kevin Nadje (U23 Ivory Coast) who will therefore face the French U23 team, Djibril Bangoura (U23 Guinea), Mondy Prunier (Haiti), Venuste Baboula (Central Africa ) and Florian Lapis (Martinique). If the last two are no longer retained in the Versailles group, Nadje, Bangoura and Prunier will therefore have to play one match after another and will not present themselves in the best physical condition against Niort.

Match sheet

CHOLET – VERSAILLES: 0-1 (0-0).

Boots. Diakhaby (86e).

Versailles: Renot – Leborgne, Diakhaby, Akueson (cap.), Atikulac – Karamoko, Basque (cap.), Nadje (Lens, 70th) – Bangoura (Traoré, 60th), Prunier, Duku (Mendes, 70th). Enter. : Vasseur