Patrick Vieira’s Todd Boehly-funded side are aiming for Europe after clicking into gear in impressive fashion
By Eric Devin for Get French Football News
RC Strasbourg, the newest member of Todd Boehly’s BlueCo enterprise, looked to have reached their nadir over the October international break. The team had won just once, in a hardly convincing derby performance against Metz, in five games, and after being beaten at home by Nantes in the league, endured further embarrassment at the hands of the German second division side SC Karlsruher in a 3-0 friendly loss.
The summer’s raft of (mostly) expensive signings under the auspices of BlueCo looked out of their depth in Ligue 1, blunt going forward and unstable at the back. Patrick Vieira’s early experiments with a three-man defence had been abandoned, but to little effect, with the team sliding towards a relegation scrap and a match against Paris Saint-Germain looming following the break. There were even questions, on the back of his prior dismissal from Crystal Palace, as to whether Vieira was up to the task of moulding a young team to be potent in attack and as defensively sound as is required in France’s top flight at present.
Continue reading…Patrick Vieira’s Todd Boehly-funded side are aiming for Europe after clicking into gear in impressive fashionBy Eric Devin for Get French Football NewsRC Strasbourg, the newest member of Todd Boehly’s BlueCo enterprise, looked to have reached their nadir over the October international break. The team had won just once, in a hardly convincing derby performance against Metz, in five games, and after being beaten at home by Nantes in the league, endured further embarrassment at the hands of the German second division side SC Karlsruher in a 3-0 friendly loss.The summer’s raft of (mostly) expensive signings under the auspices of BlueCo looked out of their depth in Ligue 1, blunt going forward and unstable at the back. Patrick Vieira’s early experiments with a three-man defence had been abandoned, but to little effect, with the team sliding towards a relegation scrap and a match against Paris Saint-Germain looming following the break. There were even questions, on the back of his prior dismissal from Crystal Palace, as to whether Vieira was up to the task of moulding a young team to be potent in attack and as defensively sound as is required in France’s top flight at present. Continue reading…
