“We will cross our fingers”slips Gilles Rampillon, triple champion of France with FC Nantes (1973, 1977 and 1980), winner of the Coupe de France (1979) and eternal optimist. “I still believe in maintaining, with a combination of favorable circumstances, with a draw in Lille to play everything in the last match against Angers, hoping that Auxerre bows… But I can’t explain a drop in diet at this point. »
2023-05-26 08:05:09
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Ludovic Blas (Nantes midfielder, qualified for the final of the Coupe de France): “We are proud, these are things that don’t happen often so we take advantage and savor it. This victory in the Coupe de France will, I hope, launch us to take points in the Championship. on goal, it’s going fast, I get a good ball from Fabien Centonze, I’m back to goal so I only have one thing to do: bring it back to me to continue as quickly as possible.
I am someone who likes responsibility, the coach has confidence in me and he shows it to me by entrusting me with the captain’s armband since last year and, as I walk on affection, I like to give back what I receive, that’s why it’s going well. »
Both in search of a rebound after their European failure in the middle of the week, Nantes and Rennes delivered a lively meeting, dominated by the locals. Steve Mandanda, imperial in the Breton cage, retained an advantage acquired quickly thanks to the first achievement in the Championship of Jérémy Doku, scorer after a series of charms in the area (0-1, 20th). The Red and Black keep their fifth place, the Yellow and Green the thirteenth.
Regarding the mid-table match between Reims (10th) and Toulouse (11th), everything went very quickly, and the Champenois quickly took the lead at the cost of a sensational start. The Japanese Junya Ito took advantage of an error by Anthony Rouault to calmly adjust Maxime Dupé (1-0, 4th), before shifting the Zimbabwean Marshall Munetsi, who, at the corner of the surface, doubled the lead. a powerful shot that hit the bar before returning (2-0, 7th).
Ito, decidedly exceptional this Saturday, delivered a second decisive pass by sending a perfect corner on the head of his captain Yunis Abdelhamid (3-0, 68th) to confirm the great success of Reims. The 17th game in a row without losing in L1 for Will Still’s band.
At the bottom of the table, Frédéric Antonetti signed a second positive result with Strasbourg. With a brilliant inspiration – a lob, volley, on a cross from Ismaël Doukouré -, Habib Diallo scored his thirteenth goal of the season (0-1, 34th) and put Racing on the right track. However, the Alsatians were joined in the second half, through Elbasan Rashani (1-1, 65th). Strasbourg, 15th, remains one point ahead of the relegation zone.
Finally, the relegation duel between Ajaccio and Troyes turned in favor of the islanders. The visitors however opened the scoring against the run of play through Mama Baldé (0-1, 23rd), before the Corsicans logically equalized on a penalty from Youcef Belaïli (1-1, 62nd), then that Romain Hamouma offers the winning goal to Mounaïm El Idrissy (2-1, 68th). Estac signs an eighth game without a win and slips to 19th place, ACA passes 17th, in perfect equality with Auxerre, first non-relegation.
Japhet N’Doram receives guests at the Lieu Unique, which has the advantage of bringing together two Nantes monuments in the same place. He leads training sessions several times a week with different audiences, including migrants who sometimes slip in to him: “I didn’t know you were such a good player. » The goal they find first on the Internet is neither the most beautiful nor the most important of his career. But he was registered against Juventus Turin on April 17, 1996, in the semi-finals of the Champions League, the highest peak in the European history of the FCN, an absolute symbol of the tormented companionship between the Canary club and continental competitions. An outside of the foot carried by rage and spite, in the 69th minute, to come back to 2-2. When it was already too late. “We wanted to show them that they qualified, OK, but against a good team. But it was played out on the way (0-2) », remembers the inspiration of this Nantes.
A clamor. A first date as a promise. The Beaujoire stadium began to rumble on Wednesday when Andy Delort entered the lawn in place of Moses Simon, against Marseille, while Nantes was down 1 to 0 and still hoped to come back ( 0-2, final score). The first emotions of an idyll on the banks of the Erdre between the striker with 85 goals in Ligue 1 and the FCN?
Difficult to see light on the horizon for Angers. Host of Clermont this Sunday, the SCO suffered another defeat (1-2), the 11th in Ligue 1, and is now seven points behind the first non-relegation player.
Despite the return of Sofiane Boufal, author of the goal of hope on a free kick from Nabil Bentaleb (80th), the Angevins had a hard time being dangerous. In a match that was very closed at first, the Clermontois had the merit of seizing their first opportunity to hurt. Found in the box, Grejohn Kyei saw his shot deflected off the post by Paul Bernardoni but Elbasan Rashani pushed deep at close range (40′).
For its part, Angers had more bad luck when the recovery of Himad Abdelli found the crossbar just before the break (45 + 2). Faced with an opponent at the bottom of the bucket, Clermont settled the matter as soon as the locker room returned thanks to a header from Neto Borges on a cross from Kyei (47th). With this third victory in a row, the Auvergnats confirm their very good momentum and move up to 8th place in the standings.
A few days after his card on the lawn of Auxerre (5-0), Toulouse had more trouble at home against Brest (1-1). After their good draw against Lille in the middle of the week (0-0), the Brestois bravely played their luck (17 shots) with a first fuse lit from the start by Pierre Lees-Melou (1st).
The Toulouse response did not drag, but Marco Bizot first intervened before seeing the recovery of Rafael Ratao failed on the post (3rd). It was finally Steve Mounié who unlocked the game by deflecting a shot from Hugo Magnetti with a header after a badly cleared corner (18th). Eric Roy’s men held their advantage for a long time, helped by a few bad choices from TFC. But they logically cracked after the hour mark on a shot in full surface of Zakaria Aboukhlal (65th). If this draw confirms their slight recovery in form, it does not allow them to extricate themselves from the red zone.
Winners in the middle of the week, Reims and Nice did not manage to decide between themselves this afternoon (0-0). Kasper Schmeichel’s save on an attempt by Folarin Balogun in the first seconds (1st) announced a breathless match. It has not happened.
Still just as solid but less sharp in the opposing 30 meters, the Rémois had to wait until the 83rd minute to frame a new shot, again from Balogun and again stopped by the Nice goalkeeper. Before that, only a shot from Junya Ito after a good heel from Thomas Foket had thrilled the Champagne public (36th).
For their part, the Niçois did not offer much more offensively. There was indeed this shot from Gaëtan Laborde who fled the frame on the return from the locker room (48th) or this opportunity from Nicolas Pépé rejected by Yehvann Diouf (86th). But it was too little to crack the Reims rearguard.
