By Aline Chatel
Published on 27 Feb 21 at 12:57
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Paradoxically, no other team better ranked than the Paris FC did not beat him Stade Malherbe Caen this season. Les Malherbistes managed to hold off the current members of the top 5 but fell in front of a team which was then marching on Ligue 2. Paris FC were at the heart of a five-game winning streak – eight in ten games – when he dominated Caen on October 31, 2020. Les Malherbistes, for their part, occupied fourth place in the ranking before this poster. The two teams face each other this Saturday February 27, 2021 (7:00 p.m.).
On the first leg, Caen should have led 3-0
Four months later, the PFC has lost its splendor but remains a candidate for the top 5, from the top of its sixth place. Caen, two rows further, is seven points behind the Parisians. The Malherbistes, as has been written enough, are struggling. One can wonder if their season had not been different if the scenario of the first leg between the two teams was written differently. Caen had lost 3-1, but Pascal Dupraz is not exaggerating when he says that his team “had to lead 3-0 after 30 minutes”. Yacine Bammou had nicely opened the scoring. Alexandre Mendy then missed a penalty and a ready goal. “It was a weedy scenario,” laments the coach.
A painful slap
Caen, who has however more often chased the score than led this season, had shown for the first time its ability to go from all to all in a few minutes, well helped in this by the nightmare of Jonathan Rivierez. Which had ended up being kicked out. This inconstancy, of course evident in Guingamp on Monday February 22, 2021 (from 0-2 to 2-2) and against Toulouse at the start of the year (from 2-0 to 2-2), reflects the lack of stability and serenity in Caen. . And each time, the slap is painful … “You have to put the book back on the job, quite simply”, observes Pascal Dupraz with fatalism. But the more the blows, the more difficult it is to get up.
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