SaturdayMay 14, 2022, in Saint-Priest, at the Jacques Joly stadium, 28th day of the French National 2 Group C championship, AS Saint-Priest beat Grand Ouest Association Lyonnaise 5-1 (3-1). Goals: Assef (32e) pour GOAL FC; Coffi (12e65e), Moussa (40e65e), Pape Sane (45e) for Saint-Priest. About 300 spectators. Arbitration by Mr. Maxime Apruzzese. Warnings: Assef (60e), Chapuis (78e) to GOAL FC; Gueye (21e) in Saint-Priest. Composition of GOAL FC: Philippon – Tanard, Chapuis, Amegnaglo, Doucoure – Quarshie (Diarra, 78e), The Master, Valbon (Sy, 46e) – Ndiaye (Lemb, 62 .)e), Doumbouya, Assef. Coach: Jamal Alioui.
If something seemed broken for a few days in the GOAL FC group since the incredible sharing at home of the 23rdth day against Hyères (3-3), it was still difficult to imagine such an end to the championship, as if the distance duel with Martigues had exhausted the entire workforce of coach Jamal Alioui. Suspended, after the frustrating draw of his training against Rumilly (1-1), the Chasselois coach, will have experienced the rout of his people, in the stands of the Jacques Joly stadium where the word derby will have given more enthusiasm to AS Saint-Priest, master of space when GOAL FC continually played badly from the lineup, in defense.
Philippon pushed back everything he could…
Did the prospect of no longer seeing coach Jamal Alioui next season on the local bench play in this match? Did the absences of defenders Kouadio and Diarra or midfielder and captain Bendaoud, all suspended, weigh? Did those who play their maintenance in N2, the ASSP, want more? We will never know, but the truth of this meeting is undoubtedly located between these questions. The fact remains that the team which will have dominated this group of N2 for 75% of the season, was not able to change the course of a duel which turned in favor of Saint-Priest, almost without forcing, could -we add. Everything will have revolved around one man: JacquesCoffi, the star player of the first half hour where GOAL FC not knowing how to exploit possession, was furiously countered, almost every time the ball was lost. The Sang-et-Or striker opened the scoring in the first quarter of an hour, with an attack on the left side followed by a perfect cross that he was able to exploit (1-0, 12e) and gave impetus, later, to Pape Sane for a possible 2-0, on a badly concluded movement, at the limit of offside, Philippon succeeding in his exit (26e).
The sensation of a match open to high winds
At this moment of the match, GOAL FC was not yet on the ropes. Thus, practically on his first real opportunity, Assef, with a half-volley as he likes them, brought his team up (32e, 1-1). This had the merit of galvanizing his teammates, or rather it brought some order to the Chasselois game, even though the management of depth by the axial duo Chapuis-Amegnaglo remained hesitant. The feeling of a game open to high winds prevailed, however. Saint-Priest, regained the advantage by his striker Moussa, opportunistic on the strike of his captain Dhib, hardly repelled by Philippon (2-1, 40e). Pape Sane, the other big man of this meeting on the side of Saint-Priest, will finally have more success by being on the trajectory of a new recovery from Dhib, to give a little width to Saint-Priest, just before the break (3-1, 45e).
Two more days to stay up
Thereupon, we did not see how GOAL FC could contain so much offensive momentum, defending so badly. We note the peps of Sy, who came into play just after the break, to build his own chance, pressing the opponent’s recovery and then following up with a cross shot which grazed the left post of Dia, the goalkeeper of the SSPA (56e). The victory of Saint-Priest would be more assertive in the final thirty minutes of a match where the Chasselois lost the thread of all their collective intentions. The same Moussa will not hesitate to finish a tumble from Coffi, playing perfectly with a bad alignment of the Chasselois defense to take the available space (4-1, 65e). Then Coffi will increase the addition, again on a counter where the GOAL FC defense will have played the offside badly (5-1, 72e). The Chasselois have two days left (against Fréjus-Saint-Raphaël and Toulon) to close their season, on a note other than that left to Saint-Priest while the leader Martigues fulfilled his contract by beating Jura-Sud (3-1 ).
Ralph NEPLAZ
local press correspondent.
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