Nancy, the red lantern of Ligue 2, created a surprise by eliminating Rennes, 4th in L1, on penalties (1-1, 4 tab to 3), Sunday in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France. For its part, Bastia overcame Clermont at home (2-0).
Bordeaux, decimated by 21 positive cases for Covid-19, was eliminated by Brest (3-0) in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France on Sunday, unlike Nantes qualified for the eighth, like Versailles (N2) who rose to this stage for the first time in its history.
With more than half of their starting team (six players) from the reserve, the Girondins, already not very dashing 17th in Ligue 1, suffered against the entire Brestois. Despite the protests of Bordeaux president Gérard Lopez denouncing a “lack of respect”, the meeting, one of the three posters of the sixteenth between two Ligue 1 teams, was not postponed by the Federation.
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And the Gironde team with a very youthful face made a mistake after half an hour of play. Its young defender Tijany Atallah, 18 years old and not the slightest minute disputed with the professionals, intervened late in the area on Romain Faivre (35th). After this first penalty, transformed by Steve Mounié, Timothée Pembélé conceded another, converted from a panenka this time by Faivre (81st), author of his 8th goal of the season. Jérémy Le Douaron increased the score at the very end of the match (90th + 4).
Versailles unfolds
No miracle for Vitré either. As in the quarter-finals two years ago, the fans of Ille-et-Vilaine who play in National 2 were outclassed by Nantes (2-0). In his garden – since the match was relocated to Beaujoire by the FFF for security reasons – the canary captain of the day Ludovic Blas opened the scoring (25th) with a strike placed at the entrance to the surface after a center in one touch of his side Fabio. Also decisive passer for Willem Geubbels for the break (68th).
Toulouse, runner-up in Ligue 2, also enforced the hierarchy (1-0) in Cannes (National 3) thanks to a goal from its Brazilian striker Rafael Ratao (52nd), at the conclusion of a tense cross from the Japanese Ado Onaiwu .
Zinédine Zidane’s debut club will not repeat its 2014 run when it climbed to the quarter-finals after dropping two Elite teams, Saint-Etienne and Montpellier, as well as a Ligue 2 team. .
On the other hand, Versailles (Nationale 2) wide winner (4-0) of La Roche Vendée, resident of the lower division, reached for the first time the knockout stages of the Coupe de France. The club of Jean-Luc Arribart (general manager) had frozen the score at half-time thanks in particular to a beautiful goal from the ex-side of the reserve of PSG Makan Traoré: a volley from the outside from the left corner of the surface.
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