Ligue 2. Long at ten but unstoppable, FC Annecy strengthens its place on the podium

FC Annecy is nothing more than a summer hit. The Haut-Savoyards were hoping for five points from the three matches they have just played in one week, they snatched seven and remain indomitable at home even when the facts of the game are to the contrary. It is becoming very serious for the FCA which has closed to four points of the leader Paris FC.

They had fangs. Mute in Grenoble (0-0) on Tuesday for the first time in 15 matches, the Haut-Savoyards visibly wanted to quickly repair this hitch in their offensive record.

Djoco strikes first

After five minutes of play, the Annéciens had already taken the score. Just before, Larose had already tested Kamara (3^e) before Billemaz's rush punctuated by a cross, hit by Ruiz's arm, offered a penalty to FCA.

Djoco presented himself against Kamara knowing that the latter had stopped two in Troyes (3-0 defeat), three days earlier, in the last five minutes of the match.

The Annecy center forward remained calm and took the Pau goalkeeper on the wrong foot (1-0, 5^e). The tenth time, in 12 days, that the Annecy residents opened the scoring.

For more than 20 minutes, Guyot's men, who had injected four fresh men into his eleven (Djoco, Tiendrébéogo, Pajot, Nsakala), marched on the meeting and compiled the opportunities.

But the strikes of Larose (6^e) and Pajot (20^e) were blocked while Larose's goal was refused for a very limited offside position by Tiendrébéogo (14^e).

Pajot expelled

Everything would suddenly go wrong for the FCA when Lajugie injured himself on a back pass for Escales. Mboup took advantage of this, eliminating Escales from a large bridge but Kouadio saved the Annecy homeland (23^e).

In the process, Bobichon found the ball with a half-volley in a dead leaf after a header from Boutaïb (24^e), then it took a crucial intervention from Nsakala in front of Bobichon to avoid the worst (30^e).

The worst was not long in coming for this meeting when referee M.Batta started to mix things up. First by forgetting a foul by Nsakala on Bobichon in the area which provoked the anger of the Palois and their captain Kamara.

The latter received a warning before angrily clearing the ball far away. A second card did not follow and this time it was the Annéciens who were angry (33^e). But that didn't put them back in the right direction, Pau finishing stronger (45^e+2, 45^e+3).

But the referee did not forget to draw, logically, a second yellow card to Pajot for a collision on Diawara (52^e).

Ultimately, the FCA was not going to give up much and even spare itself the fears of suspenseful stoppages when Bermont provoked Mohamed's goal against his cap (2-0, 89^e). Annecy is serious.