The Greens remain in the red. Saint-Etienne could not do better than a draw this Saturday afternoon against Nîmes (1-1), in a Stade Geoffroy-Guichard behind closed doors due to the excesses that occurred during the club’s relegation to Ligue 2 against Auxerre on May 29, 2022. Overflows which also penalized the Stéphanois by three points before starting the championship. After their inaugural defeat in Dijon, the men of Laurent Batlles took only one point in two games and now have -2.
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The Crocodiles, who also lost to Caen last week, also picked up their first point. It was they who opened the scoring in the 32nd minute through Jens Thomasen, with a cross shot from the right foot, at the entrance to the surface. Just before the break, the Nîmes captain Benoît Poulain made a handball within sixteen meters on a header from Jean-Philippe Krasso. The Ivorian converts the penalty with a left-footed low shot.
Bordeaux on the right track
Unable to find the fault last week against Valenciennes, the Girondins de Bordeaux were reassured this Saturday in Rodez. At the end of an applied first half, Bordeaux had already made the break. First thanks to an early achievement by Danylo Ignatenko (4th), who manages to deceive Sébastien Cibois with a low shot at the entrance to the area.
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Then, ten minutes later, thanks to Dilane Bakwa, who took advantage of the work of Fransergio full axis and his offering to beat Cibois with his left foot. Helped by the expulsion of Pierre Bardy shortly before the break, the Girondins were not really worried after half-time. And offered themselves a third goal in stoppage time, through the young incoming Darren Lima Semedo (90 + 4).
The Niort Calvary
Niort was not there this Saturday. And this, perhaps, because of the imbroglio that the club experienced earlier in the afternoon, when the Congolese Football Federation announced the appointment of the Niortais coach, Sébastien Desafre, as coach. ..without the club being informed. If the interested party denied before the evening meeting against home against SC Bastia, the players sank.
The Chamois Niortais lost 4 goals to 1, conceding two goals in the first two minutes (Dylan Tavares and Frank Magri), then two more in the next twenty minutes (Abdoulaye Ndiaye in the 21st, Magri in the 24th). Already folded, the match then lost in intensity. For the honor Bilal Boutobba reduced the gap in the 82nd, on penalty.
Guingamp, 6 points and 3 stars
After sweeping Pau last week, Guingamps went for victory on the field of Laval (1-2). The Bretons settle – alone – at the top of the standings, pending the FC Metz match on Monday at the Stade Malherbe in Caen. Led from the 5th minute following an achievement by Bryan Goncalves, the Guingampais waited for the return of the locker room to wake up.
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In the 54th minute of play, Maxime Barthelme first resets the counters to zero. Then, twenty minutes later, Jeremy Livolant scored the goal of the evening: a volley from the right about forty meters from the cages which ended its race in the right corner of a helpless Maxime Haubois.
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