Highly anticipated, this first big National clash between the first and the second gave more place to a committed and tactical match between two coaches, Alain Pochat and Cris, from the same promotion of the BEPF and who therefore have some technical knowledge on the philosophy of both. Weaned of chances during the first half hour, the meeting was, as often in these cases, unblocked after an individual error. Anthony Scaramozzino has indeed a little too much supported his pass back to Maisonnial whose approximate recovery has benefited Issouf Macalou, who, full of composure, found the skylight of a marvel of rolled up (29th). The only thrill action to remember from this overall disappointing first act.
Le Mans finished at ten and cracked
Just after the hour mark, Amine El Ouazzani found himself in a good position to equalize, but his lob attempt fled the frame of Patron, also guilty of a bad recovery at the foot of which the Bresse nugget failed to take advantage. . More open than in the first period, the meeting changed after the second warning received by Ibrahim Cissé side Le Mans, author of a tackle slipped late on Garita freshly entered (69th). Confined to a joker role since the start of the season, the powerful and swift attacker then proved to his coach that he was hungry for minutes by equalizing with a header following a distant cross from Fleurier (84th). In a tense end of the match which saw the evening referee distribute several cards, the very authoritative but considered correct intervention of Félix Tomi on Fischer, ready to arm a strike in an ideal position, will perhaps remain as the gesture of the evening. The one that allows his team to leave with a point of his trip in the Ain against a competitor on the climb.
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