They could certainly have made their lives a little easier, but the Toulouse team ended up winning on Saturday afternoon at Valenciennes (1-3), still racing at the top of the standings. An important victory synonymous with a small feat this season: Téfécé has indeed chained a second success in a row in Ligue 2, which had not happened to it since last September.
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Collectively, Philippe Montanier’s players have made an almost flawless copy. Masters of the ball, they quickly opened the scoring on a header from Anthony Rouault following a free kick once again wonderfully fired by Branco Van Den Boomen (0-1, 10th). But we had to be vigilant because Valenciennes will have shown a voluntary and courageous face. Even after the second Toulouse goal (0-2, 54th), on Ratao’s strike after a perfect movement between Denis Genreau, Nathan Ngoumou and Mikkel Desler, the Northerners did not dive, returning to the score by Ugo’s head Bonnet (1-2, 57th), winter recruit from Rodez.
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Pressure at the end of the match that the Toulouse should not have experienced after the opportunities of Desler (25th) and especially by Ngoumou whose strikes found the uprights of VA (34th, 76th). But he will have lacked a little more speed and technical accuracy to the Valenciennes, who lost all illusions after Anthony Rouault’s new goal on a corner from Van Den Boomen (1-3, 83rd). A copy-paste of the opening score. Toulouse has still mastered the debates well, already scoring 52 goals after 24 days. Impressive.
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