Paris (AFP)

Belfort, it's going strong! The National 2 club created the sensation of the knockout stages of the Coupe de France by leaving Montpellier on Tuesday, while Rennes and Dijon fought in overtime to go into quarters.

. Heroic Belfort

At Belfort, we saw the world upside down: Montpellier, solid fourth in L1, gave in to pressure from the locals, yet three divisions below.

The Montpellier Junior Sambia and Damien Le Tallec may blame themselves: the first did not frame his shot and the second saw his own stopped. And here is the MHSC, unable to score in 120 minutes, eliminated on penalties (0-0, 5-4 tab).

At the very end of regulation time, already, the Montpellier goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli had lost the pedals, pushing the ball with his gloves in a face-to-face ... except that he was very largely out of his surface, which earned him a red card logic.

His replacement Dimitry Bertaud could not avoid the humiliation.

. Dijon disgusts Limonest

Dijon almost suffered the same fate against Limonest, little Thumbeley of the eighth, who believed in the feat until the end. The club of the suburbs of Lyon, resident of National 3, did not crack until the very end of the overtime against Dijon (2-1).

The amateur club even offered the luxury of opening the scoring with a superb volley from Aziz Bouzit (49th).

It took an irruption of the Venezuelan Jhonder Cadiz (55th) to avoid the humiliation at DFCO, struggling in Ligue 1 (17th). And the defense of the amateur club held up, heroically, in the face of pressure from the Dijon area. Saved by their cross at the end of additional time, the Rhodaniens gave way only in the 120th minute, on a goal by Steephy Mavididi.

. Reindeer madness

In Angers, M'Baye Niang and, above all, the young Yann Gboho, allowed Rennes, defending champion, to avoid elimination by coming to the end of Angers (5-4 ap).

At 19, Gboho took advantage of the rotation of the workforce decided by Julien Stéphan to do the show, with an overtime goal (4-3, 101st) and a decisive pass for Niang, who scored the second Rennes goal. '' a balloon stung (42nd).

Gboho also brought the opening of the score, with a nice ride concluded by a shot repelled by the Angevin goalkeeper Danijel Petkovic ... and sent to the bottom by James Léa-Siliki (37th), from outside the area.

Niang got him a penalty, on a fault from Baptiste Santamaria, which he himself converted (3-1, 61st).

But Angers gave the Bretons a lesson in combativeness, returning twice to the score.

Sada Thioub gave himself a double, to reduce the score twice. First at 2-1 on corner (52nd). Then a nice shot at the penalty spot (85th), served by Stéphane Bahoken who took advantage of a Rennes defense at bay.

It was Bahoken (90th), again, who snatched the extension by transforming a penalty caused by Joris Gnagnon.

And even led in overtime, the SCO has still not admitted defeat. Mathias Pereira Lage tied again at 4-4 (105th).

It was defender Jérémy Gelin who finally knocked out Angers, scoring the goal of 5-4, synonymous with qualification, in the 110th.

Results of the round of 16 games, contested on Tuesday:

(+) Belfort (N2) - Montpellier (L1) 0-0 ap (5 tab to 4)

Limonest (N3) - (+) Dijon (L1) 1 - 2 ap

Angers (L1) - (+) Rennes (L1) 4 - 5 ap

To come up:

Monaco (L1) - Saint-Etienne (L1)

Wednesday:

(6.30 p.m.) Epinal (N2) - Lille (L1)

Pau (Nat.) - Paris SG (L1)

(9:05 p.m.) Marseille - Strasbourg

Thursday:

(8:55 p.m.) Nice - Lyon

Editor's note: the teams preceded by the sign (+) are qualified for the next round.

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