A nightmare and a team below everything… Paris FC, which had not lost for five months, completely sank (3-0) in the first period in Nancy, the last dropout of L2. Thierry Laurey feared the trap match. The facts proved him right. The Parisian coach had decided to revamp his starting lineup but his players proved unrecognizable. It had been a long time since we had seen Paris FC go through so much during a match. If the thesis of the accident can be retained, this calamitous performance and the physical state of this group affected by a hecatomb of wounded, cast the shadow of a small doubt for the final sprint. Especially since Auxerre won a 5th victory in a row at Nîmes (2-1) and returned to one point behind Paris FC, the now fragile dolphin of leader Toulouse.
What you must remember
Paris FC delivered its worst game of the season. As he had announced, Thierry Laurey, even deprived of seven injured players, had made a big turnover with five changes (returns of Bernauer, Bamba, Demoncy and Gory as holders). In goal, Ivan Filipovic replaces Vincent Demarconnay who made the trip to Nancy, did the warm-up, but stayed in the stands to breathe. If the Nancy public enters their team in a somewhat surreal atmosphere, they will quickly turn it around.
Alamami Gory who started alone on goal falls, and while the Parisians claim a foul, on the counter Biron deceives Filipovic (1-0, 10th). On a corner, the Croatian goalkeeper gets a hole, the defenders mess up their clearance and El Ayanaoui scores the 2nd goal (2-0, 28th). Paris FC is just catastrophic. In front of her bench, Laurey does not stop shouting, before sitting down and blackening her notebook to think about a new organization. At that moment, he understood that his turnover and his move to a three-man defense were failed bets. Especially since his team continues to sink with a third goal signed Biron (3-0, 43rd).
After this calamitous first period, Laurey switches to a more traditional 4-2-3-1 and makes three changes with the entries of Siby, Boutaïb and Beaka. If the PFC finally manages to line up two passes in a row, Filipovic, until then uninspired, avoids the 4-0 by winning his duel against Biron (65th). The Parisians finished (a little) better but the referee did not whistle the penalty on Hadjam (80th) then Boutaïb was overtaken by Trot (82nd). After a few faults from Nancy, some PFC players lost their nerves at the end of the match. Laurey is even obliged to return to the field to get Gory out of a scuffle, and calm him down. “You are doing this… now”, gets angry the Parisian coach. After this slap, he has four days to put the heads back before Pau comes to Charléty on Saturday.
Player: Jaouen Hadjam
In this collective sinking, difficult to bring out a player on the Parisian side. But U18 international Jaouen Hadjam at least fought well. In the first period, it was he who initiated the most dangerous offensive actions on his left side, with his breakthroughs and crosses. At the end of the match, he could have benefited from a penalty (80th).
The number: 16
The invincibility of 16 games (11 wins, 5 draws) therefore stopped at the Marcel-Picot stadium for Paris FC. He had not lost for five months, October 16 in Pau (1-0).
The reaction
“Faced with Nancy, who in her position had almost nothing to lose, we knew it would be complicated and that we had to make a minimum of mistakes. But we lacked aggressiveness and we weren’t technically fair. There was passivity in our surface. From the moment you do not do things correctly, in football, you are punished. It’s logic. It’s a non-game, these are things that happen in a season. It’s only our 6th defeat but it falls badly. We will try to rectify the situation against Pau on Saturday. Above all, we must not trivialize our series of 16 games without defeat. We have 7 injured including 6 attackers. We were forced to put boys who had given on the bench in anticipation of the Pau match. I made choices, they didn’t pay off. So, let’s say it’s for my apple… I do with the squad and the players I have. We are deprived of our offensive weapons, we are obliged to do otherwise. » Thierry Laurey coach of Paris FC
Match sheet
NANCY – PARIS FC 3-0 (3-0)
Arbitre : M. Stinat
Buts. Nancy : Biron (10e, 43e), El Ayanoui (28e).
Warnings. Nancy : Biron (61e) ; Paris FC : Gory (80e), Hadjam (86e).
Nancy: Trott – Basila, Delos, Bianda – Latouchent, Lefebvre, El Ayanaoui (Bondo, 87e), Bobichon (Haag, 67e), Ciss (cap.) – Biron (Jung, 78e), Ngbakoto (Thiam, 67e). Entr. : Cartier.
Paris FC: Filipovic – Chergui, Camara, Kanté (cap.) – Bernauer, Bamba (Mandouki, 74th), Name (Beaka, 46th), Demoncy (Siby, 46th), Hadjam (Koré, 89th) – Lopez (Boutaïb, 46th ), Gory. Entr. : Laurey.