Gambardella Cup / 3rd round.
NîMES OLYMPIC0
LUNEL2
La Bastide sports complex.
Half-time: 0-1.
Referee: Mr. Guilbert.
Goals for Lunel: Frontier (42nd), Dumont (83rd).
Warnings in Nîmes: Lapiere (42nd).
Warnings to Lunel: Rosime (2nd), Videira (70th), Dumont (80th).
NÎMES OLYMPIQUE : Leger – Ichou, Trauchessec, Lapiere, Attaba, Rollet Parison – Rodriguez, Ayachi – Lopes, Lamssalak, Tahar. Puis : Mundingayi, Dugaret, Andre. Entr. : M. Gas.
LUNEL: Fediere – Chassin, Esparza, Madrid, Videira, Reversat – Dumont, Rosime – Frontier, Boulet, Garcia. Then: Frontier, Cicalese, Sol. Enter. : F. Menye.
It was in a reverse-format match that these two teams met for the third round of the Gambardella Cup. Nîmes Olympique, with three consecutive victories in the championship, welcomed another club from its group, Lunel, which had two defeats in a row. But with this Cup everything is possible and Lunel demonstrated it in the best possible way.
The Nîmes first presented their playing principles, with opportunities for Tahar or Lamssalak blocked by the defense or the goalkeeper. But it was at the end of the period that Lunel decided to take a break, following a stoppage in play due to injury. The Lunelois played intelligently in depth, before Frontier dribbled past the goalkeeper to score the only goal of the half (0-1, 42nd).
Back from the locker room, the Nîmes will push even more, with a succession of chances in the first ten minutes, without finding the target. But as the match progressed, they let themselves fall into a false rhythm, which allowed Lunel to extinguish all their hopes with a rejected free kick and an innocuous recovery from Dumont at the edge of the area. It is completely unbalanced that he infiltrates the truth zone before dribbling past his defender then hitting under the goalkeeper’s arms (0-2, 83rd).
A victory which does good for the confidence of the team coached by Frédéric Menye who underlines after the match its “defensive solidity, and the consistent support of the attackers, who showed altruism today.”
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