in Touvent, Saint-Maur takes the upper hand for the elevator

Always: 0
Saint-Maur: 1

By losing this Saturday, January 25, 2025 on his synthetic against Saint-Maur, Touvent missed the opportunity to rule out a direct opponent for the rise to R3 but also demonstrated his current limits. “The guys probably saw themselves looking too good. If they want to move up, they will now have to show something else. Let them bring out the heating blue. We cannot hope to win this type of match if we lose all the duels. And then, we will have to stop conceding goals so quickly”noted Franck Mantaux at the end of the meeting.

Mourcel did not delay

However, it was the locals who had taken the match from the right end with this cross from El Amrani which did not find a taker (2^e). The Saint-Maurois response was not long in coming. Despite a wind that would dehorn the oxen, Prince made a cross of almost forty meters towards Mourcel. The Saint-Maurois goléador did not ask himself any existential questions and scored from a tight angle (0-1, 7^e). One would then have thought that this opening score would sound the tocsin of revolt in Touvent. Not even!

Anesthetized by the stakes, unless it was by fear of doing wrong, the Castelroussins were subjected to the law of visitors. Regularly beaten in duels as well as in the attack of the second balls, the Castelroussins also showed approximation. Like this poorly adjusted pass from Agabakou which was intercepted by the stainless Nadaud. From thirty meters, the “divine bald” of Saint-Maur lit a banderilla that Soula painfully turned away for a corner (38^e). Then it was Merrien’s turn to make the locals break into a cold sweat just before the break (40^e).

Often, nascent doubts

Returning from the locker room, Guignard had the equalizer at the end of his cleats but his shot narrowly missed Boutinaud’s goals (47^e). Castelroussin’s intentions were very palpable but Mantaux’s men lost the ball far too quickly to hope to reverse the trend. Not to mention their attacks which lacked verticality and percussion to undermine a well-established Saint-Mauroise defense.

Tense and tense, the meeting became downright unbearable in money time. Well served by Guignard, Diokh wasted a great opportunity to snatch a draw. After the one against the Poinçonnet reserve three weeks ago, Touvent conceded its second loss in a row at home. And there’s nothing left of the scarecrow that scared everyone!

Half time : 0-1.
Arbitrator : M. Imbert.
Buts : Mourcel (7^e).
Warnings : in Touvent, Prot (32^e), Valet (61^e), Droussi (87^e) ; in Saint-Maur, Merrien (13^e), Busquet (15^e), Prince (58^e), Toilibou (82^e).