It’s incredible, a little suicidal too, to have let slip a game that seemed so well embarked at the break. You just have to look at the standings to understand it: here is the ASNL 18th and play-off, tied on points with the red lantern Chambly. This fourth consecutive defeat, after three setbacks away, shows how deep the evil is. The fact of counting a game late, December 15 against Troyes in Picot, is not even a recovery in the current dynamic. No more than the prospect of playing again on Saturday at Sochaux.
Jean-Louis Garcia has enough experience in football to know that a coach, in such a situation in the standings and after such a defeat, finds himself in danger. He recognized it himself very calmly in a post-match press conference.
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ASNL missed 2-0 balls
At half-time, however, everything suggested that it was the evening to break this infernal series, with a tactical novelty (three central defenders) which had borne fruit. This change freed the full-backs and allowed the ASNL to start strong. Nothing to do with his face in Clermont on Saturday! Moreover, in less than ten minutes, Nancy had already created two huge chances (Biron header next to 2nd, recovery narrowly missed by Karamoko 9th)!
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Everything was on the Nancy side: desire, movement and even technical quality as with this Bertrand-Biron sequence. Pass from Reunion and magnificent strike from Martinique to open the scoring (1-0, 25th). Although amorphous so far, Toulouse missed the equalizer ball in the wake, on a sacred intervention from Coulibaly against Healey (26th).
But the former residents of L1 would not really have deserved to return to the score in this first half clearly to the advantage of ASNL. It is Nancy, on the contrary, who could have reached the break with two goals in advance: attempt by Bertrand (28th), cross shot from Biron (40th), recovery from Karamoko (41st) …
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Day and then night
But even when it seems to be having a good night against a struggling opponent, the ASNL therefore does not succeed. As much his start to the match was full of enthusiasm and conditioned the rest of the first half, his much softer start to the second period also set the tempo for the second act.
Toulouse did not need much to equalize by the Englishman Healey (1-1, 54th). And then, after a series of wasted set pieces by Philippe, Nancy found a way to be led to the mark, due to a reckless exit from Valette that mowed down Healey. Penalty stupidly conceded, transformed by Spierings (1-2, 65th).
This is called giving the stick to get beaten. The numerical superiority of Nancy, after the expulsion of Rouault for a foul on Biron (70th), has not changed anything. At ten, Toulouse brought the score to 3-1 on a jewel of Adli. Just before discovering the other results of the evening of L2 unfavorable to the ASNL at the bottom of the ranking. When nothing goes right…
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