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Convincing in the first period and leading the score, TFC lost track as Losc managed to raise their voice. A new defeat (2-1) with a taste of déjà vu.
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There are images that perfectly sum up an evening for you. Like that of Djibril Sidibé leaving his partners due to injury (75th) after a long stoppage in play at the very moment when Clément Turpin validated Mitchel Bakker’s goal (first refused for offside) which occurred three minutes earlier was cruel for the people of Toulouse. Or how to lose one of your defense leaders to end the match at the same time as your illusions about the same action with a LOSC snatching the winning goal (2-1).
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Faced with a team that had perhaps not yet fully digested its exploit 72 hours previously against Real Madrid, Carles Novell Martinez’s men showed themselves to be protagonists. More leggy than the Mastiffs, with high pressing and real defensive application, the Toulouse residents delivered a coherent first act. With a game which initially leaned slightly to the right thanks to a restless Zakaria Aboukhlal.
For a good half hour, the good impression left had a taste of unfinished business: no shots on target from either side while the TFC were well and truly a step above. And with forceps, it finally clicked at the end of the first period. But it was complicated. As if to illustrate Toulouse’s problems in terms of efficiency, it was a close call, with the intervention of the goal line technology to validate the goal of Zakaria Aboukhlal (39). The ball barely entered the cage of a parrying Lucas Chevalier, but enough to reward the visitors’ efforts.
King not rewarded for his efforts
Yes, but as LOSC clearly increased in intensity, TFC struggled to keep up. It is an understatement to say that the second act was much more exciting, to the detriment of the Violets.
The break point, Joshua King had one, not very obvious, with a nice recovery released by Lucas Chevalier (48). A few minutes later, the Norwegian went there, in his own way, with his tribute to Jean-Claude Dusse by failing to finish alone against the northern goalkeeper, after an excellent service from Vincent Sierro in the depth (61st). But to be fair to his overall performance, let’s remember that it was he who was the origin of the first goal of the evening by making the shift for Yann Gboho.
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Carles Martinez was injured on Aboukhlal’s goal
Small event last night in Pierre-Mauroy, Zakaria Aboukhlal became the third Toulouse player to find the net this season. In seven days, that’s not much. A goal in the form of deliverance for the TFC which could then claim a better end to the evening. As proof, the reaction of Carles Martinez Novell who celebrated the goal a little too hard, his ankle paying the price. Forced to be strapped in the middle of a match, limping somewhat, the coach returned to his injury after the match: “It’s better, I took some medication, but I really have other things to think about at the moment “. The technician was also not alarmist about the injuries to Rasmus Nicolaisen (ankle) or to Djibril Sidibé.
In the meantime, Jonathan David had also managed to miss a real goal ball (49th), while Angel Gomes equalized after a superb ladle from Osame Sahraoui to put the entire Occitan defense in the wind (1-1, 57th ). “We have the impression that history is repeating itself a bit compared to the last two matches,” breathes the Spanish coach of TFC. Defeat is hard to accept, we cannot have regrets about our state of mind, we are right every time but we must believe in it more, especially in the key moments of the match.”
A real speech of the Coué method while with a victory in seven matches, the TFC advances at the pace of a relegation which it could be this evening in the event of a victory of Montpellier in Reims. When leaving the stadium, Vincent Sierro admitted that in this context, the international break would do good. To put our minds back in place with a view to moving forward, at least we must hope so.
