Nothing will be easy this season! FC Lorient suffered again to get rid of FC Annecy. Before playing their football, the Morbihannais showed the character needed to achieve great success because Ligue 2 is never an easy task! It’s a dense, homogeneous championship where you have to roll up your sleeves to get through it. If they needed a new reminder, the FC Lorient players had a new illustration, this Saturday at Moustoir.
The surprise team at the start of the championship, FC Annecy (5th before the kick-off of this match shifted to the 9th day), which had not lost on August 28 and the second day (12 points out of 18 possible since) reminded them by opening the score quite logically by Djoco who, after getting rid of Adjei, caught Mvogo (0-1, 7′). And if the Savoyards are more accustomed to the soft underbelly, or even to the second part of the table in this Ligue 2, they managed to keep FC Lorient in check almost until the hour mark. And the equalizer, full of technical accuracy from young Kroupi (1-1, 54′).
The offside trap
Until then, the Lorientais had broken their teeth against the modest Anneciens, first put in difficulty by their pressing then by coming up against their well-grouped defense. They were also too often caught in the offside trap, in particular Katseris regularly sought after on the right for his speed qualities, but so messy at the time of the last movement. Without forgetting that FC Lorient once again had to deal with an opposing goalkeeper (Escales) on fire, like his reflex saves in front of Bamba (49′ and 50′).
Kroupi: doubled, accuracy and efficiency
But instead of getting frustrated, FC Lorient knew how to do violence to themselves. And once the equalizer was validated, the Merlus erased their technical waste and regained their ease, concretizing their technical superiority by copiously dominating overwhelmed visitors. Mvuka, for his first attempt, succeeded where Bamba had failed (2-1, 70′). And Kroupi sealed the fate of the match during a perfectly controlled duel against Escales (3-1, 74′). In the surrounding euphoria, Soumano added a fourth goal (88′) before Dago reduced the score in the final seconds (90+ 2).
“My job is to score goals and assist goals. I work for that and, today, I think I succeeded well,” rejoiced Junior Kroupi at the microphone of beIN Sports after another double which, despite the first period, allowed his team to take their place at least momentarily in the leader’s chair, from the 9th day. With a small point lead over Paris FC who play on Monday. Whatever the outcome of this last meeting of the 9th day, FC Lorient seems to have taken Ligue 2 by the right end. That of resilience…
