While Nantes was getting closer to a victory at Bollaert, Lens turned everything around at the very end of the match, helped by a disagreement between Alban Lafont and Nicolas Pallois (3-2). The Sang-et-Or move up to 5th place, Nantes is 14th, one point from the relegation zone.
Four points separated Lens of Nantes at kick-off and for the two clubs, beaten during the two previous days, a result had to be achieved in Bollaert. The Canaries believed in it for a long time but ended up giving in at the end of the match, to the point of losing in incredible fashion (3-1).
A case of penalties
The Sang-et-Or were the first to get an opportunity. On a center of Przemyslaw Frankowski, Adrien Thomasson came to place a header close to the target (2nd). The answer did not wait: after a percussion of Moses Simon, Mostafa Mohamed came to cut back but he found the amount (3rd).
In a match that started on a high base, the Artésiens then hoped for a penalty for contact between Rémy Labeau-Lascary et Nicolas Palloiswithout being granted (5th).
The people of Nantes responded with Jean-Charles Castellettoauthor of a returning cross which passed in front of everyone and could have deceived Brice Samba if the ball had returned to the right post (6th), then with a shot off target. There was a certain excitement in the Lensoise defense which got away with it.
The meeting was then interrupted a few moments after burst tennis balls were sent onto the pitch when banners against the LFP were displayed (12th).
Lens found the thread. Guilty of having caught Labeau-Lascary, Pallois came close to direct exclusion but was saved by the offside signal on the attacker (16th). And by pushing, the RCL was rewarded. After appeal by the VAR, Clement Turpin signaled a penalty for contact between Douglas Augusto et David Pereira da Costa (19th). The specialist Frankowski took charge of the sentence to open the scoring (21st).
After a period of latency, the Lensois created a 2-0 opportunity. Returned to defend on the outskirts of its surface, Matthis Abline took a big shoulder from Facundo Medina but the Argentinian’s left shot made someone happy in the stands (33rd). Two minutes later, Medina was caught in his own area: outpaced by Nicolas Cozzahe caused an avoidable penalty (36th). Simon transformed in his turn.
That scenario!
We had to wait almost ten minutes for the second period to begin. First, Simon attempted a lob with first intention upon receiving a long ball from Samba. In continuity, Andy Diouf well placed at the far post on a cross from Pereira da Costa sent a powerful strike which crashed on the canary post (55th). Then Deiver Machado delivered a powerful cross headed by Neil El-Aynaoui who could not bring down the ball (58th).
On increasingly heavy ground, Cozza threw a chill on Bollaert when he cut Simon’s cross to the line. First invalidated for an offside at the start of the action, the goal was entered on the scoreboard after intervention by the VAR (73rd).
Whistles started coming down from the stands. These are two players who came on and were close to equalizing. Angelo Fulgini centered hard in front of the cage and Florian Sotocawith the goal open, missed a golden opportunity (82nd). It was only a postponement. Well placed back, Hamzat Ojediranwho entered a quarter of an hour earlier, found himself alone to victoriously retake Machado’s center (86th).
The people of Nantes were on the ropes. After an interception, Medina only had to send the right pass but Pallois, with an exceptional tackle, saved his team (89th). But on an air balloon, Alban Lafont hesitated to come out, Pallois wanted to head it back and lobbed it, which allowed Thomasson to secure the blow and win the Sang-et-Or (90th).
Lens is now 5th with 17 points while Nantes is 14th with 10 points, increasingly close to the red zone.
