US Avranches overthrow Saumur after a match with a crazy scenario

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It is a meeting which will be a landmark in the US Avranches season and which the 900 spectators at the René-Fenouillère stadium should remember for a long time. Trailing since the start of the second half after opening the scoring, the players in the pink and white jerseys turned the game around in the final moments of the game. “We really needed this victory,” confided Michel Audrain at a press conference. It's really a scenario that we didn't expect in the last five minutes. »

Skylight roof

After a start to the match to the advantage of the visitors (shot from Manceau, 8'; header from Epagna, 11' and reflex save from Marfaing on a corner from Bouhoutt taken by Epagna, 18'), the Avranchinese took the advantage on their first real scoring opportunity. On a quickly played counter, Tiéhi, found on the edge of the area, gets the better of his defender to put away Seydi who shifts to his right towards Aurélien Tertereau, who sends the leather into the opposite corner of Cointard (1-0, 19' ).

From then on, Captain Jessy Pi's partners took the measure of their adversaries. But an incident restarts the match just before returning to the locker room. The referee indeed whistles a penalty for the Saumurois after contact with Seydi's shoulder, in a duel with an attacker in the area, while the ball goes out of bounds. A very severe penalty that Bouhoutt transforms by catching Marfaing on the wrong foot (1-1, 45'+1).

Already cooled by this equalization, the Fenouillère public was completely showered from the restart when Bouhoutt, at the entrance to the area, sent a wonderful curled ball into the top corner of Marfaing, helpless (1-2, 47'). The Avranchinese tried to react with Bansais (50′) then Sopromadze who followed up with control and shooting (53′), but both came up against Cointard. They then fall back into their mistakes at the start of the season, lacking technical accuracy and increasing ball losses, offering so many counter-attack solutions to visitors who have no equal to break the rhythm of the match.

The decisive attackers

Michel Audrain then decides to strengthen his line of attack by successively bringing in Noa Mupemba then Anas Lambrabette. The first is very close to finding the target on an improbable cross-shot (84′). But the player on loan from Stade Rennais did not tremble when converting the penalty whistled following a handball from a defender in the area. By taking Cointard on the wrong foot (2-2, 88′), Mupemba offers his partners an exciting end to the match. And it was finally Jean-Pierre Tiéhi, alerted to the edge of offside, who gave victory to the USA in the final moments, with an unstoppable cross shot to capsize an entire stadium (3 -2, 90'+ 2).

A game that takes place

“We didn't have an exceptional second half even though the first was very good,” analyzes Michel Audrain. Unfortunately there was this equalizer just before half-time so I told them to keep going, to be determined. After Saumur's second goal, we played without conviction. But when I see the end scenario, I see a desire and a determination. Honestly, I believed it without believing it.”

In addition to the victory, the technician also remembers that “the team's game is slowly developing. Not over the entire match, this evening against one of the best teams in terms of play encountered since the start of the championship, but it is falling into place. We are going to savor this moment, this victory is very important to hope to have good momentum. » The USA thus moves up to 6th place with 12 points after nine days.

After Châteaubriant, a first assessment

Michel Audrain has been repeating it since the start of the season. He will draw his first assessment after ten days, a third of the way through the championship. This deadline arrives on Saturday November 9 with the reception at 6 p.m. of the Voltigeurs de Châteaubriant. This will be the second consecutive match played at home against a team ranked 9th with 11 points, which remains on a 3-2 victory against US Granville.

“We are going to expect this Châteaubriant team to play a more athletic game. It's going to be a completely different match, against a team with a 3-5-2 system, says the coach. It's never easy to win two championship matches in a row. But when I see the riot of energy at the end of the match, we will be very motivated before leaving for the Coupe de France match. When we see what we are doing, there is no reason why we cannot win this match. »

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