It’s a match that seems lost in a space-time rift in football. Perhaps because this eighth-finals of the Coupe de France, in front of a little more than 3000 people, on a Tuesday evening in February, in the freezer of the Parc des Sports in Annecy, did not make anyone dream. Not even those who played it. From Aldo Angoula to Cédric Barbosa, via Kévin Bérigaud, yet the author of a beautiful double, or Bertrand Laquait, who even thought he was injured that day (!), Not a player in the match has any tangible memories of the game and, therefore, even less of the performance of Riyad Mahrez, who became one of the best players on the planet less than five years later, when he went to win the title of champion of England with Leicester (2016).
Bernard: “We had something in place to counter Rivière”
Perhaps also because the following round, with the squaring of Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals (1-1, 4-1 tab), remained as the most …
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