Buts : Perrin (27e, 39e), Sinayoko (65e SP) et Onaiwu (90e+2) for AJA
A Sunday of All Saints' Day at Abbé-Deschamps.
There are no longer many stadiums like that of Auxerre, as simple, warm and reminiscent of football before, the one where everything was less closed and more accessible. That's also the joy of traveling to the club dear to Guy Roux, who made short work of a very sad Stade Rennes this Sunday afternoon (4-0). Those who don't watch Julien Stéphan's team may have found it unrecognizable, the truth is that it was above all very recognizable and that it was not even able to take refuge behind the goal refused to Arnaud Kalimuendo for a gesture caused by Donovan Léon's reflex save on a header from Leo Østigård (11e). The first period was a mess, symbolized by a festival of approximations and a glaring absence of connections between players who seemed to have discovered each other the day before.
Perrin without delay
Let's talk about Auxerre, its audience, its atmosphere and a team which had understood quite simply how to put the Bretons in difficulty. Kévin Danois took his chance twice (5th, 18th), Hamed Traoré smashed the post with a curled ball after a bad dismissal from Østigård (22nd) and Gaëtan Perrin took it upon himself to captivate the Auxerre supporters by planting a doubled to put the AJA far in front. The Auxerrois first took advantage of a failed recovery from Azor Matusiwa to follow up with a perfect shot control that made Steve Mandanda wince (1-0, 27e)then the Rennes goalkeeper lost his face-to-face with the same Perrin, who had escaped behind Adrien Truffert's back to conclude an express counter attack from the Burgundians (2-0, 39e). It was enough to fill the stands, with the exception of the small space reserved for Rennais, where chants against the team and the coach ended up descending, while a string of smoke bombs covered the stadium a slight fog upon resumption.
From 2-1 to 3-0, there is only one step
In the fog, precisely, the Rennais returned to the pitch with three changes from the break (Amine Gouiri, Baptiste Santamaria, Mikayil Faye) and it would be wrong to say that this changed everything, even if the visitors were a bit more dangerous. Which allowed Léon to stand out on a rebound from Gouiri's chest and to thank his lucky stars, or rather the VAR. The match could have tightened when, at the hour mark, Kalimuendo ended up deceiving the Auxerre goalkeeper after a good job from Jota (62e), but his goal was (again) refused at the same time as the referee… designated the penalty spot on the other side of the field, sanctioning Faye's belting of Lassine Sinayoko at the start of the action. The latter did not hesitate to transform it and spread a little more happiness in the bays of Abbé-Deschamps (3-0, 65e). We almost said to ourselves that Rennes were doing well with this score, but Ado Onaiwu took care of putting the icing on the cake in added time (4-0, 90e+2) at the end of the match between a euphoric AJA settling in the middle of the table, two points ahead of a Stade Rennes not showing much hope and showing very little progress after almost three months of competition.
Fingers in the crisis, as they say.
