Football: Lyon knocked out of the Cup by a 5th division club

Bad times for the big guys: Lyon was eliminated by the resident of National 3 (5th division in France) Bourgoin-Jallieu (2-2, 4 shots on goal to 2), and Rennes by Troyes (Ligue 2) on Wednesday in the 16th of French Cup.

Lyon thought they had done the hard part by leading 2-1 after suffering the opener, but Mehdi Moujetsky scored his second goal of the evening, ironically in the 69th minute, to force the Rhone residents into a perilous penalty shootout. goals.

The Lyonnais started it in a catastrophic way with the failures of the captains Alexandre Lacazette and Corentin Tolisso. Moujetzky’s failure was not enough to put them back in the saddle. Huge disillusionment for Pierre Sage’s men against a team that plays four divisions lower.

Jorge Sampaoli’s Rennes, reinforced in this winter transfer window by Brice Samba and Seko Fofana, also experienced a disappointment (1-0 defeat) against Troyes, resident of Ligue 2. Rafiki Saïd even had the luxury of missing a penalty before scoring the only goal of the match.

Cannes (N2) also achieved a big blow by eliminating Ligue 2 leader Lorient (2-1).

Toulouse, on the other hand, enforced its status by disposing of Ligue 2 club Laval (2-1). Strasbourg too, but the Alsatian club was scared by going through a penalty shootout (2-2, 5 shots on goal to 3) after a match in full fog at Thaon (N3), where supporters even thickened the atmosphere with smoke bombs.

In the duel of the Ligue 1 teams, it was Brest who prevailed over Nantes (2-1). Antoine Kombouaré’s team, however, believed they could revive by reducing the score at the end of the match.

In the evening, Paris SG qualified with forceps by beating the Espaly amateurs at the very end of the match (4-2).

The Espaviots, who play in National 3 (5th division) opened the scoring in the 3rd minute through Kevis Gjeçi. Paris SG then laboriously took the advantage (Warren Zaire-Emery in the 37th and Désiré Doué in the 67th). But Maxence Fournel equalized for the Auvergnats (71st).

Paris found the fault in the last minutes, through Bradley Barcola (3-2, 88th) then Gonçalo Ramos on a penalty in added time (4-2, 90th+2).

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