En eleven days, Pau FC experienced a nightmare: four matches linked together at a hellish pace but above all just one small point taken and a series of three defeats in a row. The latest, Friday evening, in Annecy, in a match which only confirmed that nothing is going well in Nicolas Usaï's team. Whether the opponent was 11 against 11 or 10 against 11, the observation was similar. The Béarnais were powerless and ineffective.
Pau FC's evening at the Parc des Sports in Annecy got tough from the start since, from the 3rd minute, on a cross from Billemaz, the match referee sanctioned a handball from Ruiz in his area. Djoco transformed the penalty (1-0, 5th). With heavy pressing, a trademark of Laurent Guyot's team, FC Annecy literally suffocated the Palois at the start of the match. Kamara, vigilant, repelled a long shot from Tiendrebeogo (18th).
Despite the incessant waves from Annecy during the first twenty minutes, Pau resisted so as not to see the score worsen and finally entered their match. Mboup could have taken advantage of a big mistake from Lajugie to equalize but pushed his ball too much (22nd) before Bobichon's recovery hit the Annecy post (24th). Pau FC could even have been awarded a penalty for a foul on Diawara (36th). Regardless, the Béarnaise reaction was notable at the end of the first period.
No goals in three matches
Nicolas Usaï's men kept the same pace at the start of the second act while on the Annecy side, Pajot was sent off for a second warning (52nd). Pau FC would take advantage of this superiority to confirm its hold on the match in the game. While Kamara remained vigilant to dive into Djoco's feet on two counterattacks (63rd, 74th), the Pau attackers, already silent during the last two days, were still as imprecise and clumsy as they approached the Escales goal. The missed attempt by Pau's top scorer, Boutaïb, was the perfect illustration of this (86th).
And as if to prove that nothing was going Pau FC's way at the moment, Bermont's center was deflected into his own goal by Mohamed (90th) and validated a third setback in a row for the Béarnaise squad now 12th in the League 2.
