After the sad spectacle in the stands of Paris FC-OL, Friday evening, the 32nd finals of the Coupe de France continued this Saturday. While the 20 Ligue 1 clubs enter the competition during this round, a first of them has been eliminated and how! Yet eleven against eight at the end of the match, Troyes lost to Nancy on penalties (1-1, 2-4 tab). Nantes, Clermont and Lille have qualified.
Everything was however off for the best for the Estac, who had played in numerical superiority since the half hour of the game, after the red card distributed to Maxime Nonnemacher, and had opened the scoring by Brandon Domingues on penalty. But the Lorrainers responded with Andrew Jung and were able to resist until the end, despite two new expulsions in the last quarter of an hour. Two failures on the Trojan side during penalties then allowed the Ligue 2 resident to qualify.
In the last match of the evening, the only opposing two Ligue 1 teams this Saturday, the train arrived on time at Roazhon Park. Rennes, current 3rd in the elite, has dominated without forcing his talent Lorient, 19th in the championship, little in recent weeks. Bruno Genesio’s team took the lead by Warmed Omari, a 21-year-old Franco-Comorian central defender, whose first goal for Rennes. After that, the Reds and Blacks got the situation under control, except for two alerts in the last quarter of an hour.
Incidents in Nîmes
Nantes was also scared. Hanging on by Sochaux (L2) throughout the 90 minutes, the Canaries also had to wait for the penalty shootout to qualify (0-0, 5-4 tab). Qualification was quieter sporting (0-4) for Clermont against Chemin-Bas d’Avignon Nîmes (R2), despite some overflows in the stands. Sheltered after a full first half, Losc dominated (3-1) Auxerre (L2).
Two clashes between Ligue 2 teams were on the program. In the first, Toulouse made speak the logic of the classification, by winning widely against Nîmes (4-1). In the other, Guingamp lost to Amiens (2-3), with a hat-trick from Chadrac Akolo.
It also happened for two Ile-de-France clubs: Versailles (N2) won in Alsace (0-1), on the ground of the US Sarre-Union (N3) and, a little later in the day, Créteil (N1) curbed (3-0) Vénissieux (R1). The biggest achievement of the day is to be credited to Cannes (N3), who released Dijon (L2) after the penalty shootout (1-1, 3-2 tab).
