Once again weighed down by a defense at bay, the Ruthenois recorded a second consecutive loss this Friday evening, against Ajaccio (1-2). The ninth in 20 Ligue 2 matches which leaves them provisionally 13th, two points behind 16th, roadblock and executioner of the evening.
A week after dropping their flag to Guingamp (3-0), the Ruthenois wanted to redeem themselves this Friday in front of their audience, 4,300 Aveyronnais and a handful of Corsicans. Except that after a big shot under the bar from captain Cadiou, which Sollacaro deflected for a corner, it was the Ajaccians who opened the scoring.
Soumano took advantage of the passivity as astonishing as it was glaring, first from Cadiou, then especially from Mazou-Sakho, to, on the left side, calmly step back onto his right foot and roll in a shot that Mpasi was unable to get out of the goal. We were then playing the 26th. And the bet of the Aveyron coach, Didier Santini, having left on either side of the three-man defense Mambo and Laurent (for Chougrani and the usual midfielder Mazou-Sakho) was already lost.
Bad choice
In this first act, the blood and gold kept the ball. But they failed to appear very dangerous. Worse, on the second real incursion of the Islanders, it was Captain Barreto who this time sent the entire Rouergate defense back in the face of its gaping failures. First Chougrani whose failed tackle in the middle was followed by an uninteresting retreat from Mazou-Sakho seeming lost before the winter recruit Cissokho quite surprisingly changed the marked player, and, finally, Mpasi did not show up at all. all inspired by Barreto's not really efficient strike, the latter passing in slow motion under his legs. Five turns of the second hand later, the international referee Stéphanie Frappart whistled the break, and the usual captain Abdallah, also left on the bench at kick-off, regrouped his troops for a (first) sermon.
-Nkada scorer, but not happiness
Enough to see a much more conquering Raf coming out of the locker room. And a first opportunity from Bentayeb repelled by Sollacaro in the 55th, from a corner. And six minutes later, again from a corner, and in a boiling stadium, Stéphanie Frappart estimated that Strata surrounded the returning Baldé in the area. Penalty. The top scorer in Ligue 2, Timothé Nkada did not hesitate to transform the sanction into a goal, even if Sollacaro touched the leather. For his eleventh achievement of the season.
A reduction in the score and tension which increased a notch between the two teams. Even on the benches, in fact, a succession of yellow cards reached Ajaccio coach Thierry Debes, who was in turn warned in the 68th minute. But on the ground, nothing would be marked despite a few local banderillas.
Next outing for the Ruthenois, from next Friday with the Grenoblois of a certain Franck Rizzetto, former player then coach of Raf, having started his Isère adventure with a setback this Friday.
