The Angers SCO largely dominated the Olympique de Nîmes this Sunday afternoon (5-1) to make its comeback in the first part of the Ligue 1 standings In the other posters of the day, note the spectacular draw between Lens and Reims (4-4)
Angers SCO took advantage of the 10th day of Ligue 1 and its trip to Nîmes to get closer to European places, just before the international break
Stéphane Moulin’s men have easily dominated a training Gard in great difficulty in recent weeks (5-1)
From the kick-off, Mathias Pereira-Lage took advantage of the apathy of the Crocos defense and a perfect cross from Sada Thioub to place a diving header and score the fastest goal of the season
Absent last week against Nice, Stéphane Bahoken then recalled that he remained the indisputable holder at the forefront of the Angers attack
After a full axis slalom concluded with a cross strike from the left, the Cameroonian offered himself a double on a somewhat curious action
On a long, deep ball, the assistant referee raised his flag and everyone except the SCO striker stopped playing… although he was not in an offside position at all! A little more water brought to the anti-VAR mill
The Angevin recruits Loïs Diony (on penalty) and Jimmy Cabot opened their counter under their new colors to give a little more importance to the success of the visitors, despite the reduction of the gap of Koné for Nîmes, now play-offs
The other success of the afternoon is for FC Nantes, winner on the ground of Lorient (0-2)
In a tense and very committed meeting, the players of Christian Gourcuff made the difference at the very end of the match, thanks to Abdul Kader Bamba and Ludovic Blas, in very good shape on the lawn of the Moustoir (80th and 83rd)
A few minutes earlier, Sylvain Marveaux had found the left post of Alban Lafont, symbol of the success that has eluded Hake since the start of the season (17th)
At the bottom of the table, Dijon managed to take a point in Metz (1-1), for the first of David Linares on the Burgundy bench
The former Lyon midfielder, who replaces Stéphane Jobard at the head of the DFCO (the sporting director, Peguy Luyindula, was also sacked), made strong choices
Anthony Raccioppi, the young Swiss goalkeeper trained at OL, thus rejected the penalty from Opa Nguette A few minutes later, it was the turn of his Metz counterpart, Alexandre Oukidja to thwart Mounir Chouiar’s attempt
The latter nevertheless managed to deliver caviar for Mama Baldé, author of the opening score (13th) But less than ten minutes later, Pape Yade equalized with a flat foot flush with the left post of Racioppi (21st)
The Dijonnais almost took advantage of the generosity of Garnets less enterprising than during their last outings Entered at the start of the second half, Moussa Konaté found the right post of Oukidja on a crossed header
Finally, back to competition after two matches postponed due to a large number of cases of Covid-19 in its workforce, Lens made a spectacular comeback against Reims (4-4)
The Artesians were the first to show themselves, through Simon Banza, scorer with a header on a cross from Mauricio (27th)
But the Champenois managed a very good start to the second act, materialized by two achievements of Mathieu Cafaro and Boulaye Dia, well launched in depth and who took advantage of the clumsiness of Jean-Louis Leca, the bearer of blood and gold (47th and 54th)
Before a last quarter of an hour completely crazy: by deflecting the centers in their own nets, Thomas Foket on the side of Reims and Facundo Medina on the side of Lens gave more margin to the score (77th and 79th)
And in additional time, Florian Sotoca found fault twice in barely a minute to equalize (90th and 90th 1)! The former Grenoblois even thought of getting a penalty on the wire for a deviation from Abdelhamid’s hand, but the referee finally decided, after reviewing the images, to stop there
With two games less, Lens occupies an honorable eleventh place, while Reims (16th) misses the opportunity to get out of the red zone
Friday November 6Strasbourg – Marseille 0 – 1 Saturday November 7Bordeaux – Montpellier 0 – 2Paris SG – Rennes 3 – 0 Sunday November 8Brest – Lille 3 – 2Lens – Reims 4 – 4Lorient – Nantes 0 – 2Nîmes – Angers 1 – 5Metz – Dijon 1 – 1 (17h00m) Nice – Monaco (9h00m) Lyon – Saint-Etienne
Angers SCO, Sofiane Boufal, Nimes Olympique, France Ligue 1
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