Ligue 2. “I am not at all convinced by the expulsion”: at 10 against 11 and despite a crazy goal, FC Annecy comes back to earth in Caen

2024-04-23 21:39:00

We will have to fight until the end. FC Annecy did not wait to go to Normandy, a stone’s throw from the landing beaches, to find out. In the heart of a winter that drags on, the FCA will be able to measure the full importance of this commando day spent in contact with the 27^e BCA during the last international break. It will take courage to get out of this mess. Strong nerves too.

In itself, losing at the home ground of a play-off candidate, the only Ligue 2 team with nine clean sheets at home this season, is nothing infamous. But this relapse, three days after Grenoble (0-1), reminds us that the Haut-Savoie club remains sitting on the edge of the precipice with four fights remaining.

Pajot, severe red card

It must be said that the battle quickly became tough. On the first leg at the beginning of December, Caen needed three minutes (77^e et 80^e) to overthrow Annecy at the end of the game (1-2). Tuesday evening, the Normans did things again at full speed. Quickly taking the lead by Abdi, on the lookout for the little acrobatic overhand by Thomas, to shoot Escales in his six meters after the strong pressure put by three consecutive corners (1-0, 19^e). Then benefit, eight minutes later (27^e), with a friendly helping hand from Ahmed Taleb, the referee of the match, to play in numerical superiority for more than an hour. Pajot, author of a slight sole on Lebreton at the halfway line, left his partners with ten. And the field is open to the Caennais who are still dangerous from a corner by Traoré at the end of a first period (45th + 3) where FC Annecy will not have had a single shot on target.

With Billemaz launched at the break for Kandil, the Haut-Savoyards would nevertheless take advantage of Norman apathy with the only dangerous Lebreton (54^e) before setting the record straight. The leg of the Larose supersub. Entering six minutes earlier, the former Louhanais scored his sixth goal of the season with a superb left-handed strike from full lulu (1-1, 72^e).

A candy bitten by the hungry Thomas, once again opportunistic on a corner to double the lead and bury the Haut-Savoyard hopes (1-2, 78^e).

A defeat softened by the equalizer in added time from Pau to Troyes (2-2), first relegation. There are now four commando operations remaining and less than a month for the FCA to seek rescue on the high seas.

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