La Coupe au Capitole: Toulouse, unleashed, crushed Nantes (5-1) on Saturday, mired in this dark end of the season, and won the 106th edition of the Coupe de France, in an unexpected final and in a great atmosphere, far social tension.
As a symbol, the biggest defeat in the final of the Coupe de France, was suffered by the Canaries, in 1970 against Saint-Étienne (5-0). From now on, Nantes, 16th in Ligue 1, fears a nightmarish season with the fear of relegation, a year after having known the happiness of a coronation in the Coupe de France.
Boosted in the stands and on the ground: in a Stade de France rarely so boosted (78,000 spectators) with smoke bombs, tifos and banners, the Violets put pressure on Nantes, completely overwhelmed in defense in the first period.
They logically opened the scoring on a corner kick from Branco Van den Boomen shot on the head Logan Costawho rose higher than everyone else and easily deceived Alban Lafont (4th). Hard-hitting on the sides, the Toulouse team doubled the lead a few minutes later, again thanks to Logan Costaand still from the head (10th).
A winning bet for Philippe Montanier, the Toulouse coach. Established on Saturday, the Cape Verdean had never scored. No player had scored a double so quickly in a Coupe de France final… Facing a helpless Nantes team who almost never set foot on the ball during the first half apart from a big chance (12th) , the people of Toulouse continued their demonstration.
On a beautiful opening of gabriel suazo, Thijs Dallinga stole the ball in front of the Nantes goalkeeper (23rd). The Dutch striker pushed the Canaries a little further after a strike from Fares Chaibi (31st). Moreover, Opta’s statistics show it: Toulouse is the first team to score at least four goals in the first period of a Coupe de France final since Lille against Bordeaux in 1955. The second period of this surprise poster between these two second part formations was much less euphoric.
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