Home » News » Ligue 2 – The wildest play-offs since 2016

Ligue 2 – The wildest play-offs since 2016

Championship
– May 28, 2020 Clement Maillard

Ligue 2 – The wildest play-offs since 2016

The roadblocks of Ligue 2 are a compendium of football, of madness. A concentrate of sport, too, at the same time as a maelstrom of emotions. There is everything, depending on the point of view where we stand … The joy of the winners, of course, their relief, the happiness of those who access their Grail. And then quickly appear before our eyes and on television screens the distress, sadness and disappointment of the vanquished … In short, the dikes of possibilities give way during a barrage. Everything is possible, disproportionate, hanging on a thread. So back on the wildest matches of the last play-offs Ligue 2 !

Read also >> Mediapro will broadcast the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 play-offs between 2020 and 2024

Top 5: Ajaccio-Toulouse barrage to go 2018: off-site and behind closed doors

After a play-off final between theTO THAT and Le Havre interspersed with numerous incidents (postponement, red cards, etc.), the roadblock goes between Ajaccio (L2) and Toulouse (L1) is relocated to Montpellier. Contested in the strange atmosphere of behind closed doors, the adventure ends short for the Corsicans, swept by the TFC of a Max-Alain Gradel in great shape. Author of a superb free kick to open the scoring, the Ivorian propelled the residents of L1 ahead, to never let go of the meeting. 0-3 at “home” at The Mosson finally. A week later, the step will be too high to climb up Stadium for ACA. And it is the Violets who will remain in Ligue 1.

Top 4: Troyes-Lorient barrage to go 2017, Benjamin Nivet is eternal!

Real heroes don’t wear a cape. It’s a formula that supporters of Troyes (and many football lovers) can add to the name Benjamin Nivet. At 40, the legendary midfielder of theESTAC (431 games…) contested the play-offs to join Ligue 1, against Lorient. The captain takes things in hand, being already behind the opening of the score by his friend Stéphane Darbion, on a cover of the divine bald (not Zidane huh, Nivet!). But at the 82nd minute, Majeed Waris equalizes for hake. On the last action, the Trojan number 10 recovered a badly repelled balloon on the left side. Steps forward and re-axis toward the penalty area. Knock on the entrance to it. Slightly crossed, with the small rebound it takes, the gesture is perfect, the achievement, superb. Troyes won 2-1, in the wake of his guide and leader, and will confirm his rise in Ligue 1 a few days later in Lorient. ” Benjamin Nivet is eternal

Top 3: Ajaccio-Le Havre play-off 2018, the hottest…

The play-off match 2 betweenAC Ajaccio and Le Havre was originally scheduled to be played on Friday evening. But when the Norman bus arrives at the stadium François Coty, a few dozen Corsican “supporters” stop the vehicle. Utter insults and launch projectiles at it. The bus breaks down. The players and staff of the HAC will never leave to play, and the game will be postponed to Sunday. There, football finally returns to the front of the stage. Even if the end of the match will be stormy… A goal of Ghislain Gimbert start this crazy game in the 17th minute, before Jean-Philippe Mateta did not score the first of his two goals twenty minutes later. The first, because at 1-1, the match ends and goes into overtime (single match, no return, and therefore no rule for the goal scored outside)!

Football sees red

In the 110th, the game enters (another one in barrages!) In the new. On a Le Havre attack, the player ofACA, Mathieu Coutadeur, jostles and invects the referee in the area. Logical expulsion, but sanction, in addition: penalty for Le Havre ! It’s stupor in Coty’s spans. Mateta transforms the sentence, and the start of a fight follows, after the current striker from Mainz celebrates in front of the Corsican tribune … Red card for the double-scorer of the day, for his teammate Denys Bain, and to the Acéiste Joris Sainati. In short, after a not-so-fabulous pre-match, the end of the game rocks in anything, too. In sporting terms, this incredible match is not yet over. Ajaccio pushes, and eventually equalize in the 126th minute, on a magnificent recovery from Camara ! Crazy. At the penaltys, the best passer of the season (20 caviar) Zinedine Ferhat will miss his shot, and this is itTO THAT who will challenge in the jump-off Toulouse… In camera, therefore, in a stadium other than one’s own (read above).

Top 2: Lens-Dijon barrage to go 2019, the Bollaert volcano

45 minutes before the match, the stadium Bollaert-Delelis is already packed, on fire, singing as if the match was entering its last ten minutes, after a goal from Lens… The Racing has just ended his season in cannonball, snatched his two play-offs in noise and fury – yet outside – at Paris FC then to Troyes. He has a priceless chance to go up in League 1. Yet outdistanced in the standings a month before, the Sang et Or were able to find the resources to go so far as to challenge Dijon, 18th of L1. They appear in a molten crater, unleashing all their strength in battle, pushed by white-hot supporters. No one is sitting in the stands, the stairs between the seats are crowded, and it is likely that there are a little more than 38,223 seats occupied in Bollaert

Dijon by Kwon-O.

But Dijon holds its match, with the restless and excellent SaidSliti, and creates the best opportunities in the 1st half. On returning from the locker room, the RCL opens the scoring by its environment trained in The Gaillette, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, and the stands then fall into the unreal. The atmosphere is even more suffocating, volcanic, electric. However, the Dijonese push, are incisive, in the wake of a large Wesley Said, and Kwon equalizes in the 81st minute… A rather logical score in view of the game, less in view of the fantastic atmosphere in the stands. But football is football, and on the way back, the Lensois will be weighed down by the errors that all artesian supporters must still have in mind. Never mind, Lens is a club apart, which never does anything like the others, and will go up a year later.

Top 1: GFC Ajaccio-Le Mans barrage return 2019, the chisel on the gong

Crazy. Crazy. Irrational. No, we don’t describe a film by David Lynch, or some Cohen Brothers. But the dam back Ligue 2-National of 2019, between Ajélio Gazelec and Le Mans. In the first leg, the Corsican club, 18th in Ligue 2, who disposed of the resident of National, 1-2 in the Sarthe. Gas is therefore in a strong position when it comes to hosting. Especially since it is never easy to win on the Isle of Beauty … But big football games are sometimes similar to big movies. Or the great tragedies: there are tears, happiness, reversals, victors and vanquished. The outcome of this dam will in any case be remembered for all of this. Le Mans opens the scoring in the 72nd, and must score again to find the Ligue 2. But time flies, spends time, and Wesley Jobello goes into full gas for the GFCA, collapses into the surface, tackled. Penalty for the Corsicans in the 92nd minute. Mass seems said for Le Mans. The attacker does justice to himself, but no: Kocik stands, and stops shooting …

“From an S, which means Soro”

As in any great tragedy, it is misfortune that will then befall the Gazélec Ajaccio, for not having seized his chance. In the 97th minute, the Sang et Or attacked one last time, in a late game filled with knockouts and fever. Right side, the captain Stephen Vincent center at the far post for Diarra, which puts its head back on Mamadou Soro. The attacker sends an acrobatic return shot to the Corsican goal, and Le Mans, in Ligue 2. The bench in Sarth explodes, Soro never stops running on the ground, alpacée and chased by his ecstatic teammates. As for Benjamin Nivet, not all heroes wear cape mask but Samuel Ollivier, the commentator of Bein Sports, exclaims: He came out of nowhere, and he signs this goal, with an S which means SORO! It’s crazy, it’s Ligue 2, and it’s like that, every Friday, and every Saturday!. A goal that sends Le Mans in paradise the Gazélec in hell, the fate of one player, the fall of others. As in a big tragedy.


Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.