Despite the stakes, the two coaches, Stéphane Le Mignan at Metz and Stéphane Gilli at Paris FC, had chosen the risk with a very offensive starting eleven. In this game, it was the Messins who started the best with very high pressure. They logically opened the scoring on a corner from Gauthier Hein, extended by Matthieu Udol and with Pape Diallo at the conclusion (1-0, 16th). This goal would wake up the Parisians who were too passive and equalized with a gem of a strike from Jean-Philippe Krasso, dry, sudden which surprised the new Metz goalkeeper, Arnaud Bodart (1-1, 28th). A start that will have no follow-up.