After a great success against Chambly (4-0), the players of the Berrichonne Football were expected for confirmation this Friday evening in Niort. Confirm that the signs observed in recent matches, even before this brilliant victory at Gaston-Petit, were indeed the fruit, if not of a rebirth, ofan awakening of a team that is not in its place, the last, in this League 2 championship.
Prince Ibara is in the place!
12th at the start of the match, the Chamois Niortais quickly realized that the castelroussins were in good shape. From the 5th minute, Philippe Kény, just in front of the penalty area, delivers a shot on target that the Niort goalkeeper Mathieu Michel, avoids a very beautiful parade. The tone is set. La Berri did not come to Deux-Sèvres to do the figuration.
And in fact, in the 14th minute, after a very good collective action, Christopher Opéri center and find the new striker castelroussin Prince Ibara, who scores by catching the ball one meter from the goal line. The Niort nets are shaking. The supporters of Berri too, but of happiness. Prince Ibara is in the place and it’s royal! A few minutes later, in the 27th, and after a solitary breakaway on the right side, the attacker, launched by Romain Grange, will find the Niort goalkeeper on his way. It smelled good on 2-0.
But the Chamois remain dangerous, like Valentin Jacob, who with a long shot forced Marcin Bulka to a stop in two stages. The castelroussins are in the game and it is on this score of 1 to 0 that they find the locker room. Hope it lasts ! In any case the Berrichonne is omnipresent. And that is nice!
La Berri loses rhythm and the Niortais return to the score
The 2nd period will start with yellow. That of the card sent by the referee to the castelroussin striker Philippe Keny. At the end of the first period, Prince Ibara had also received a yellow card. From the start of this second half, Berri is present. But the Chamois too. Free kick for the Niortais, slightly shifted to the right. Valentin Jacob arms and forces the castelroussin goalkeeper Marcin Bulka to relax his almost 2 meters to ward off the danger for a corner. On the restart, Ckene Doucouré escapes in counterattack and finds the small net.
It’s hot ! And the match gets carried away. La Berrichonne lost in rhythm and speed, and the Niortais Kémen proved to be very dangerous on two occasions. The goalkeeper castelroussin resists, still resists, until this shot, low to the ground, at the entrance to the penalty area, from Billal Boutobba who, in the 67th minute, with a powerful strike, allows his team to return to equality. Everything has to be redone for the castelroussins who regain the last place in the championship. The match lost a little in intensity until against dYlias Chouaref who found at the second post Alexis Gonçalves, whose flat foot will be intercepted by Niort goalkeeper Mathieu Michel. Moments later, thehe same Gonçalves has the ball of 2 goals to 1 in his feet, twice …but it will not pass. The referee whistles the end of the match. La Berrichonne is still the red lantern of Ligue 2.
