THE SPORT SCAN – A quarter of an hour from the end of the match against Pau, Benoît Tavenot was sent off for attacking a Pau player.
A rare breakdown for a football coach. This Friday, on the 20th day of Ligue 2, Benoît Tavenot completely lost his self-control. The Bastia coach pushed Pau player Jordy Gaspar, before throwing himself at him and grabbing him by the collar to drag him to the ground.
A slip-up which obviously earned a red card for the island technician, who now risks a very heavy suspension in view of the images and his status as a coach, held to a duty of exemplarity. On the other hand, on a sporting level, Tavenot's outburst had the “merit” of waking up his troops, who snatched a draw in the 13th minute of added time, due to the general melee following the temper tantrum of the Sporting coach. Now, the method is nothing glorious…