Zapping Foot National Interview – The underside of amateur football, with Romain Molina
Two important matches. FC Nantes actually hosted Le Havre this Sunday early in the evening as part of the twelfth day of Ligue 1 while Angers traveled to Auxerre. In a more than upbeat Beaujoire stadium, the Canaries lost with a score of two goals to zero. The match was stopped twice, including once during added time. For its part, AJ Auxerre won on the gong against Angers.
Nantes logically bows
From the first seconds of play, Josué Casimir caught a ball after a poor intervention from Alban Lafont. The captain of the day pushes the leather into the back of the net and deals a first hard blow to FC Nantes. Antoine Kombouaré's men are not there at all in this first act and will see the Loire Brigade throwing tennis balls and rolls of toilet paper onto the lawn. In the process, some supporters will come down from the stands, without entering the pitch. The game will resume after a five-minute break. The Canaries are better but cannot get back up to par. We will have to do much better in the second half. The pace will restart quite quietly in second.
At the hour mark, FC Nantes will get a corner, without succeeding in doing anything with it. About ten minutes later, Moses Simon will light the fuse from afar and force Arthur Desmas to relax and divert for a corner. In the process, Le Havre will score the goal of the break. Having just entered the game, Steve Ngoura was hit in the opposing penalty area. From a tight angle on the right side, the Norman controls with his back to goal and manages to get around Jean-Charles Castelletto before following up with a powerful shot, slightly deflected by Fabien Centonze. Alban Lafont can't do anything about it. In the 81st minute of play, Johann Lepenant is launched into the area and tries from a tight angle. It's pushed back by the post. FC Nantes continues to push but does not succeed. Before the end of the match, serious incidents will take place in the stands and push the match referee to whistle a second time to interrupt the game. Enough to temporarily interrupt it once again before resuming the match for two minutes. The score will not change.
Auxerre on the gong
The clash of the promoted players between Auxerre and Angers will offer us a little more spectacle… although the score remained goalless at the end of the first act. In the tenth minute of play, Jean-Eudes Aholou attempted a strike that was too axial to worry Donovan Léon. An Auxerre goalkeeper who will intervene a few moments later in front of Farid El Melali. Little by little, the Burgundian club will get their foot back on the ball. Without however managing to show up in the last meters of Angevin. Enough to offer us an even more disjointed second half.
The match will also start at a slight pace. At the hour mark, the Anjou club will come close to air conditioning the Abbé Deschamps stadium. On an express counter-attack, Himad Abdelli relies on Farid El Melali, who puts him back in the area. The Algerian international misses his control, which turns into a big bridge. His dive ball, however, is not on target. AJ Auxerre will quickly regain control of the game. At an open end to the match, the Burgundian club took the lead on a wonderful cross from Hoover for Hamed Junior Traoré. A victory on the gong for the AJA therefore.
To summarize
Two important matches. FC Nantes actually hosted Le Havre this Sunday early in the evening as part of the twelfth day of Ligue 1 while Angers traveled to Auxerre.
