- SCO Angers won 2-0 against FCN on Saturday night.
- "There is no creativity," regretted Nantes coach Christian Gourcuff;
Angers confirmed their clear resumption of form by beating a Nantes team on Saturday 2-0 very far from their Marseille performance and which fell back to 12th place in Ligue 1. With this third victory in a row, Angers regains color after a big a vacuum at the start of the year, aggravated by the indictment of its president Saïd Chabane for sexual violence, and temporarily climbed to 10th place with 39 points, overtaking Nantes and possibly moving away from the relegation zone.
Supported by hundreds of supporters who came as neighbors and gathered in the visitors' park, the Nantes players were the most enterprising at the start of the match, but the game remained closed for a long time, with some fine gestures, a lot of waste and very little thrills . “We have mastery of the game but we remain in a purr which does not allow us to unbalance the opponent. There is no creativity, ”regretted Nantes coach Christian Gourcuff.
The Angevins double the stake
It was not until the very end of the first period to see action, but from Anjou, with two great opportunities. In the 45th on a counter concluded by Angelo Fulgini, served launched at the entrance to the surface but well prepared by the goalkeeper Alban Lafont. Then a minute later on a too crossed strike from Abdoulaye Bamba that Stéphane Bahoken, the author of the two victorious goals of Angers against Montpellier and Brest during the last two days, failed to push into the goal.
Driving the nail home from the locker room, Angers quickly opened the scoring with a shot close to the post of Antonin Bobichon, served behind by Sada Thioub (1-0, 48th). Then the Angevins quickly doubled the stake on a corner, with a header from Romain Thomas who won his aerial duel with Nicolas Pallois and housed a header in full skylight (2-0, 53rd).
"Frustration" of Touré
The people of Nantes tried to react but with too much technical waste, vagueness and gestures of nervousness to be effective. And Ludovic Butelle, whose public has chanted the name, intervened on the few actions constructed, such as a strike by Moses Simon, served by a heel from Kader Bamba (58th).
At the end of the match, the Nantes captain Abdoulaye Touré expressed his "frustration": "We repeat ourselves match after match that we have to erase these little mistakes, all these losses of ball and lack of concentration. We knew they were going to play on that. It is clear that we are lacking in confidence. You have to keep working and stay focused. ”
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