Without trembling, Monaco joins Paris in the final

Published on : 13/05/2021 – 23:49

The Monegasques won Thursday 5 to 1 against Rumilly-Vallières in the semi-final of the Coupe de France. They will join the Parisians in the final on May 19.

Led for seven minutes, Monaco did not suffer too much to win 5 to 1 at the expense of Rumilly-Vallières, club National 2 (4th div.), Thursday May 13 at the Parc des sports d’Annecy in the semi-final of the Coupe de France. The club will face Paris Saint-Germain on May 19 in the final. The Parisians qualified on Wednesday (2-2, 6-5 tab) against Montpellier.

Rumilly opens the brand

For their first confrontation with an elite club on the occasion of their tenth match in the event, while the N2 championship has been stopped since October, the Haut-Savoyards, winners in the previous round of Toulouse (L2, 2 -0), were not unworthy and were even able to hope to achieve the feat in the space of 27 minutes.

The time to resist, at first, then to open the scoring in the 20th minute on a long shot from their captain Alexi Peuget, served by Joris Cottin who had recovered the ball after a bad raise from Djibril Sidibé, all without the effervescence of the public but rather in the sadness of the camera.

But the Monegasques, third in Ligue 1, who returned to victory in Reims (1-0) after losing against Lyon (3-2), have gone green for three days with the lead to end the season in cannonball with their Champions League ticket in their pocket and lifting the Coupe de France for the first time in thirty years (1991).

And even if they conceded their first goal in the 2020-2021 competition, they still controlled the meeting without feeling.

Suddenly, the hope will have finally lasted only seven minutes for the players of the Country of the Albanian because the ASM quickly equalized with a goal scored against his camp by Arthur Bozon at the reception of a center delivered from the left wing by Fodé Ballo Touré (1-1, 27).

Fabregas on three goals

Rumilly-Vallières, who had not conceded a goal in his last five Coupe de France meetings, even had to lose again five minutes later with a goal from Aurélien Tchouaméni, who headed a corner. played from the right by Cesc Fabregas (2-1, 32).

And the bill could have been even higher at half-time if Kevin Volland had not found the crossbar after a good serve from Wissam Ben Yedder (37).

The latter, by anticipating, in the penalty area the exit of the goalkeeper Dan Delaunay with a stung ball, brought the score to 3-1 at the start of the second period after a one-two with Fabregas, who thus delivered his second decisive pass in the match, the third this season in the event (55th).

In the last quarter of an hour, Fabregas added a fourth goal for his team from a free kick after a foul on Tchouaméni (4-1, 78).

At the end of the game, Niko Kovac was able to manage his squad by preserving Ben Yedder and Volland, replaced by Ruben Aguilar and Aleksandr Golovin (70) who brought the score to 5-1 shortly after coming into play (81), then in outgoing Tchouaméni and Fabregas for the benefit of Youssouf Fofana and Florentino Luis (79) or even Gelson Martins for Valentin Decarpentrie (83).

For his part, Fatsah Amghar, the Haut-Savoyard coach, also brought fresh blood to his training which held up well physically but inevitably lacked rhythm by the absence of competition, also history of rewarding a maximum of players. for their great journey.

GFA Rumilly-Vallières is only the fourth level 4 club to reach the last four of the competition after Calais (2000), Montceau-les-Mines (2007) and Quevilly (2010). And it deserved the hugs between players of the two teams at the end of the game.

With AFP

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