A few centimeters close, perhaps also with an additional dose of lucidity, Le Havre AC would have cleared a passage until this victory which taunts him since October 31 and a winning blow at the expense of Pau (1-0, 9th j.). For this rebound, to stem the fall that began on the evening of the 10th day, the three points would have been those of a renewal. And so often this season, the men of Le Guen have sent signs of feverishness, collective and offensive helplessness, Monday night, they have knocked down all the assets, or almost, they had.
Undoubtedly, the Ciel and Marine made their most successful match of the season in South Corsica. And like the previous day, their numerical inferiority, acted by the referee in the 65th, as against Auxerre (Abdelli), had no detrimental effect on their desire to move forward. On balance, rarely in recent weeks has the defense shown such strength, probably never this season, the frank opportunities had not been so many.
In François-Coty, we thus saw a team, a real one, determined to be respected, to hurt, to turn its back on weeks of doubts with the consequences perhaps far from irremediable in terms of ambition. We say well, maybe. Because the day after this fourteenth day, the oldest club remains stuck in thirteenth place, five lengths from the club of five.
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Finally assert yourself
Where the next visitors appear, Clermontois expected Monday at the Stade Océane, where the Toulouse are trying to settle, that the Sky and Navy will challenge on December 19 at the Stadium. Two deadlines which will mark, or not, the real return of Le Havre AC in the circle of outsiders, candidates for the play-offs. The Ajaccio HAC in any case allows hope, to move away from the disaster. There are now three days before the break in the Sky and Navy to finally assert himself, to be forgiven too.
And perhaps in January, the great beginnings of Khalid Boutaïb, except for another setback, will allow us to look at the future from another angle.
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WE LOVED
The ghost ball. They had disappeared from radar, at least in their ability to bring their personal touch to the collective. And suddenly they reappeared. We are talking about Ertugrul Ersoy and Jean-Pascal Fontaine. The Turk had not released such solidity, such assurance, such leadership since the first half of the first day (in Troyes).
A performance that he could have punctuated with a winning whim without a Leroy of the great evenings (84th). As for Jean-Pascal Fontaine, it has been a long time, too long, that he had not been so radiant, he who notably served two wonderfully balanced passes to Jamal Thiaré (1st and 74th). A click for the Réunionese?
Cornette finds some punch. Still no second assist to his credit, but it’s just like. Monday evening, with a free kick, he forced Leroy to intervene so limited that the latter had no choice but to offer Gibaud the opportunity to score. But beyond this kick, the ex-Amiénois turned out to be really bleeding, hard-hitting, on the right flank.
WE DIDN’T LIKE
The scoumoune of Thiaré. At the final whistle, our Corsican colleagues asked us where this player (Thiaré) who runs everywhere, who does not refuse any duel, who wins in the air came from. This is to say if the Senegalese, at the origin of the free kick which allowed Pierre Gibaud to open the scoring, left his mark on this evening. Nevertheless “Jam” could not celebrate François-Coty his third goal of the season, despite a massive golden opportunity (74th). Blame it on a lack of lucidity, the consequence, perhaps, of an outpouring of extraordinary energy. Cruel…
The “ rouge Stupid Bazile. What is the point of being able to open this umbrella, at HAC as elsewhere, under which the excuse of the youth of the workforce is housed, if ultimately, it is the oldest who are showing naivety? In the wake of the penalty converted by Ajaccien Courtet, Hervé Bazile, in his thirties, the player with 227 matches (L1, L2 and N1 combined), thus fell into the trap of provocation. A front against front with the Ajaccian striker, which earned a warning to the two men, then a remark, a priori scathing, addressed to Mr. Pignard, ended the evening of the Haitian international, thus becoming the fifth player to be expelled. this season (Ersoy, Fontaine, Mbemba, twice, and Abdelli had been before him).
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