Al Merrikh 2 – 0 Étoile : Things just had to get exciting …
By: Houssem | September 24th, 2008After the 2-1 victory last week in Sousse, Étoile were – not really surprisingly – beaten by Al Merrikh in what could have been the decisive game of this group stage. I’m not one of those who ask for the coach’s head on a spear after such a defeat, but Decastel clearly has to rethink his choices if he wants to go all they way in this cup. The likes of Abdennour, Ben Nasr and Bejaoui are doing more harm than good, and I’ll bet we won’t see them in the starting 11 more often this season.
I pointed out previously that winning your away games in addition to the home fixtures is the key to topping the group, but this seems to be everybody’s problem in Group B, which leads us to this table :
1 – Al Merrikh P:4 W:2 L:2 D:0 +2
2 – Étoile du Sahel P:4 W:2 L:2 D:0 0
3 – JS Kabylie P:4 W:2 L:2 D:0 -1
4 – Asante Kotoko P:4 W:2 L:2 D:0 -1
Everything’s possible, including an humiliating withdrawal from this second rate competiton. Not easy to picture it after the glorious 2007 campaign and the outstanding performance in Japan’s Club World Cup, but a lot of things have changed since. It doesn’t get easier when you know we still have to play Asante Kotoko in Ghana, and that our fate possibly won’t lie in our hands, given Al Merrikh’s one goal advantage on us. Speculating is useless anyway, the only thing left to do is wait and hope for an awakening. My guess though would be an agonizing last matchday battle between all teams, where the players would try their best on the field and yet have to wait for the outcome of the other game. But don’t we Tunisians enjoy it when things get spiced up ? We sure do, so allez les rouges !
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