It becomes a sad habit. Once again, Paris FC, yet very dominating, tripped over the carpet in Niort (2-1). The Niortais remained on two defeats and still have an interim coach (Dona Ndoh) pending the arrival of a successor to Sébastien Desabres who left to lead the DR Congo after the 1st day of L2.
Paris FC concedes its first defeat of the season. After four days his balance sheet is negative at all levels: 11th in L2, five points and behaviors that challenge. This start to the season is very far from the stated ambitions. The arrival of Caen, leader who walks on water, next Saturday in Charlety will already be a turn not to be missed.
What you must remember
For the first time this season, Thierry Laurey had chosen to field four attacking entry players. And from the start, we saw movement, overflows with an Alamami Gory who had found his legs of fire on his right side. After a Gory festival, Julien Lopez falls on a great Michel, Pierre-Yves Hamel takes over as a pivot but sees his shot pushed back on the line by Conte (17th). The rest was more laborious with always the same desire but failed controls, a lack of technical accuracy.
At the break, Laurey launched Morgan Guilavogui in place of Mehdi Chahiri. On an acrobatic recovery, Gory still misses the target (50th). By dint of multiplying the inaccuracies, Paris FC is punished on a counter by Sagna who serves Boutobba (1-0, 56th). Put in difficulty by a pass from Maxime Bernauer, Ivan Filipovic then misses his kick-start, which benefits the Tunisian international Zemzemi (2-0, 61st). In five minutes, the PFC completely collapsed. Laurey pass makes three changes and switches to a three-man defense.
After a strike on the crossbar from Warren Caddy (66th), a shot from Morgan Guilavogui which skims the post (71st), Caddy deflects a cross from Jaouen Hadjam (2-1, 72nd) with a header. Paris FC pushed to the end. But Niort resisted until the end. On the Parisian side, a quick questioning is essential.
Player: Warren Caddy
Paris FC’s top scorer in warm-up matches, Warren Caddy remained on the bench in the first three games. Thierry Laurey preferring Pierre-Yves Hamel. But as soon as he entered the game and his first minutes of play in L2 of the season, Caddy stood out. After finding the crossbar on his first ball (66th), he opened his goal counter with his head (72nd) and sounded the alarm clock for his team.
The number: 3
The number of goals scored during this match confirms the tradition of the always prolific Niort-Paris FC. It was 4-4 in 2019-20, 2-2 in 2020-21 and 4-1 in 2021-22. Niort is indeed the pet peeve of Paris FC with now five wins, 4 draws and one defeat in the last nine meetings between the two teams.
The reaction
We can only blame ourselves. Niort took what was given to him. When you have opportunities, you have to know how to put them to the bottom. We cannot accept that in a match that we have mastered, we can lack so much lucidity and then serenity. We made defensive mistakes. We are not where we wanted to be. This match proves that what we have been doing since the start of the season is very insufficient. If at least it could wake everyone up…” Thierry Laurey coach of Paris FC
Match sheet
NIORT-PARIS FC: 2-1 (0-0).
Spectators: 2,000.
Arbitre : M. Landry.
Goals. Niort: Boutobba (56th), Zemzemi (61st); Paris FC: Caddy (72nd).
Warnings. Niort: Vallier (43rd), Benchamma (60th), Moutachy (69th), Conte (73rd), Kaboré (77th).
Niort: Michel – Moutachy, Conte, Kilama, Vallier – Kabore (cap.) (Olaitan, 79th), Benchamma – Boutobba, Zemzemi, Sagna (Merdji, 71st) – Rocheteau (Bentil, 71st). Entr. : Donna Ndoh.
Paris FC: Filipovic – Le Cardinal, Chergui, Bernauer, Hanin (Hadjam, 65th) – Mandouki (cap.), Name – Gory (Karamoko, 65th), Lopez, Chahiri – Hamel (Caddy, 65th). Trainer: Lauren.