Ligue 1: After leading 2-0, Nantes concedes a draw at home against Monaco

Nantes continues to pose problems for the big cars in the French championship! After bringing back a point from Lille during the 16th day, the Canaries drew against AS Monaco (2-2) at the end of a spectacular match. The Nantes residents dominated the debates for a long time, leading by two goals thanks to Matthis Abline (12th) and Kelvin Amian (47th). But the Monegasques took advantage of two gross errors to come back to the score through Breel Embolo (52nd) and Mohamed Salisu (59th) from a corner. Monaco is not cured and sees its place on the podium threatened, Nantes is reassured.

The last confrontations between Nantes and Monaco on the Beaujoire side have often ended in high scores. The Canaries, who had the ambition to maintain the same level of demands as against Lille (1-1), quite upset a Monegasque team in the tough.

The Nigerian Moses Simon, the most active Nantes player in the match, tested Philipp Kohn’s gloves with a crushed shot, before the mischievous opener from Matthis Abline (12th), well served by Sorba Thomas at the penalty point. The Monegasques tried to respond, from afar, with this powerful strike from Lamine Camara, well countered by Anthony Lopes (24th). Swiss striker Breel Embolo sent a shiver through the Beaujoire bays but his powerful header brushed Lopes’ right post (37th).

Precise on the counter, the Nantais doubled the lead after returning from the locker room thanks to full-back Kelvin Amian, author of a clever recovery from a new cross at the end of Thomas’s stroke (47th).

With their heads underwater, the Monegasques were able to get back into the match thanks to gross errors from their opponents. Despite being impeccable until then, defender Nicolas Pallois found himself in a duel with Embolo, the Swiss found himself facing Lopes to score with a powerful strike (52nd). Eliesse Ben Seghir thought to put the two teams back on level terms with a curled but off-target shot (55th). It was the Ghanaian defender, Mohammed Salisu, with a header who was able to equalize in the empty goal, the fault of a poor reading by Anthony Lopes (59th).

The match got carried away in the last minutes, the two teams did not want to settle for a draw point. Breel Embolo thought he could score a double following a mix-up, but it was Nicolas Pallois who countered on his line (82nd). Nantes also had the opportunity to win thanks to Moses Simon, whose shot hit the crossbar (83rd). Nantes with this draw point continues its good start to the year in the game, while for its part Monaco is still not out of the fog, and could be ejected from the podium.