2023-04-23 18:08:11
Nantes in danger, Toulouse is preparing its Coupe de France final well and Strasbourg is no longer relegated to goal average. These are the three main lessons of the five matches of the 32nd day of L1 played this Sunday afternoon April 23.
The game with twists and turns: Nantes snatch the draw in the 96th minute but can shake
At the end of the match, the FC Nantes players went to chat with their supporters. La Beaujoire, who had celebrated the club’s 80th birthday before kick-off, almost experienced a real nightmare. After the opener from Nicolas Pallois (25th), the people of Nantes did not manage to take shelter. Troyes, almost condemned to L2, went ahead on a penalty from Mama Baldé following a handball from Pallois (1-1, 64th) then a goal in additional time from Wilson Odebert (1-2, 90th + 2). But Evann Guessand managed to snatch a point which could count in the final count (2-2, 90th + 6). A goal validated after appeal to the VAR which considered that the Egyptian Mostafa Mohamed had not taken the ball with his arm. Despite everything, this remains a poor performance for Nantes, now first non-relegation (but tied with Brest, 17th) who was not really reassured before their Coupe de France final against Toulouse.
The performance of the day: Toulouse is reassured before the Coupe de France
Toulouse can go to the Stade de France with certainty and confidence. One week before the final of the Coupe de France against the Nantes defending champion, already historic in the history of the club, Philippe Montanier’s men won against Lorient on the lowest of scores (0-1), with a goal from Zakaria Aboukhlal with the right foot (68th). In the standings, the TFC is ahead in the race to maintain and is now nine points ahead of the first relegation, Brest.
The counter-perf: Nice is no longer advancing
Internally as on the lawn, nothing is going well in Nice. After their elimination in the quarter-finals of the Conference League against Basel on Thursday, the Aiglons lost again against Clermont (1-2), in Ligue 1. Didier Digard’s men had equalized through Gaëtan Laborde (41st), after Cham’s opener (37th), but were surprised at the end of the match by Saîf-Eddine Khaoui (83rd).
The defeat virtually ended their hopes of Europe at the end of the season, as they were eleven points behind fifth-placed Lille. They also recorded their seventh game without a win in all competitions.
The number: 16
The number of seconds that was enough for Habib Diallo, the Strasbourg striker, to open the scoring against Reims. It is the third fastest goal of the season in Ligue 1, behind Kylian Mbappé in Lille (eight seconds), and already Diallo against Montpellier (thirteen seconds). He then offered himself a double (2-0, 37th) bringing his total to 17 goals this season. Thanks to this success, Strasbourg comes out of the red zone thanks to a better goal average (-10) than Nantes (16th, -11) and Brest (17th, -13th).
The sentence: “We fell into a stupid trap”, Will Still (Reims)
Reims coach Will Still didn’t really appreciate Strasbourg’s opener after barely a handful of seconds: “We fell into a stupid trap. When you concede a goal after 13 seconds, there is a problem. You can’t afford to concede a goal after 13 seconds. We knew very well what they were going to offer us and we fell into it like idiots. It’s very difficult to get back into a match when you concede a goal so early. And once you’re down 2-0 against a quality team, it’s mission impossible, ”lamented the Belgian technician at the Prime Video microphone.
The match where (almost) nothing happened: AC Ajaccio and Brest in slow motion
It was siesta time at the François-Coty stadium in Ajaccio. In a closed match, ACA and Brest failed to decide. On the Corsica side, Touzghar was expelled (66th) and Leroy managed to stop the match (73rd) against Mounié (73rd). The ACA which remains 19th nevertheless puts an end to a series of 6 consecutive defeats. Brest for its part, despite a 5th match without defeat in a row, plunges back into the red zone by becoming the first relegated (17th).
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