Saint-Etienne was still afraid of Ibra … – Sports.fr

Zlatan Ibrahimovic may well have been worth it, Sunday’s Clasico at the Velodrome in closing the 31st day Christophe Galtier is particularly wary of Swedish striker then The Greens will go to the Parc des Princes on Wednesday, during the semi-finals of the Coupe de France.

Etienne have reason to be afraid. For if the first experience of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, facing the Greens, had turned into a fiasco, it is clear that the attacker Paris has since caught up well. In the autumn of 2012, in addition to the defeat against the men of Christophe Galtier (1-2), the first of its Parisian adventure, the Swede had been left in effect an eviction shortly after the hour mark, blamed a foot high on the chest of Stéphane Ruffier. The start of the tricolor guard woes, now the preferred victim of the old Milanese on the lawns of the Hexagon …

If Ibra shows better average against Lorient and Nantes, with six goals in four matches, or even Nice, again with six goals in five games but, St. Stephen’s is indeed the team against which the Swede was the most prolific. Among his 99 goals with PSG, eight were against the club Drill. Eight goals in eight matches, including five this season, because, after a hat-trick late August at the Paris demonstration (5-0), at the close of the 4th day of Ligue 1, the Parisian star there was a penalty during the return phase in January (1-0), less than two weeks after having already scored the only goal of the match in the final of the League Cup quarterfinals.

Zlatan remains Zlatan

Christophe Galtier

So when he talks about the Swedish striker decline, Christophe Galtier tend to wince. And it is not the poor performance of Ibrahimovic, Sunday’s Clasico, which reassures him. Quite the contrary. “Zlatan is a world class player. He still has the ability after a performance-cons, to leave the big game. I would have preferred Zlatan is very, very strong Sunday. It was well taken by players Marseille, but it remains that the Parc des Princes is its garden “, explained the technician Etienne press conference.

And the coach is wary of the Greens especially of the Parisian striker that even when passing through Ibra is still able to make a difference. The Marseillais can attest, the Swede is the source of both goals for the champions of France after the break. “ At any time it can give a good ball. At any moment, he can score on set pieces, scoring by far be present in the surface. Zlatan Zlatan remains” , has also Galtier said …