“We deserve to climb” … Toulouse two short steps from a return to Ligue 1

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The TFC will play a round-trip barrage to try to get back to Ligue 1, a year after his relegation. – Frédéric Scheiber / Sipa

TFC players and management will be among the most attentive spectators of the last day of Ligue 1, Sunday evening. More than the fight for the title, it is down that they will look, to know the identity of the 18th and barrage, after having easily disposed of Grenoble on Friday night (3-0), in the play-offs of Ligue 2 .

Nantes, Lorient, Brest or Strasbourg, or even (but it is very unlikely) Bordeaux or Reims? The future opponent of the Violets is in this list of six, for a first leg on Thursday at the Stadium in Toulouse, and the return on Sunday for the elite team.

“You have to go looking for this rise by being enterprising,” assures coach Patrice Garande. I am proud of the players, they have had a magnificent season. I think we deserve to go up. We didn’t get there through the championship, but we still have that opportunity. “

Leaded by the Covid

Third in the regular season, behind Troyes and Clermont, directly promoted, the TFC was hit hard by the Covid-19 epidemic in the home stretch of the championship, which for a time weakened the team and disorganized its calendar.

But with his Pitchouns (Koné, Adli…) reinforced by elements of experience (Dupé, Dewaest, Machado, Dejaegere…), he has arguments to claim an express return to L1, one year after his relegation. An objective proclaimed upon his arrival last summer by the new management team led by President Damien Comolli, French representative of the American fund RedBird Capital Partners.





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