It was the last effort before the holidays.
And the Red Star players came close to offering themselves a nice gift before the hour by leading twice to the score, thanks to the indefatigable Cheikh Ndoye, Friday evening, in their shock with the leader Quevilly-Rouen (2 -2).
A trip to Seine-Maritime that the Audonian leaders opened to us.
Reportage.
Jogging and getting out of bed
7:30 am
, at the Mercure hotel in Rouen-Champs-de-Mars, Valentin Ries is the first to wake up.
The team manager of the professional group for four years has a habit of starting match days by jogging with physical trainer Randy Fondelot.
After eating breakfast around 9 a.m., players wake up their bodies.
The middle guys take a nap together
Cheikh Ndoye and Djiman Koukou (in the background) in their room.
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1:28 p.m.
, after lunch together, where there has been a lot of talk about programmed vacation destinations from the final whistle, the players go to their rooms for a nap.
The middle bosses Cheikh Ndoye, 34, and Djiman Koukou, 30, are housed in 523. “Yesterday evening (Editor's note: Thursday evening), it was extinguishing fires at midnight, after the film
Planet of the Apes
, reveals the ex-Senegalese international.
This time, we will try to doze off for an hour.
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Draw at ... foosball
3:22
p.m.,
goalkeeper Paul Charruau and striker Pythoclès Bazolo challenge second goalkeeper Raphaël Adiceam and midfielder Diego Michel at table football.
"Me, I am unbeatable", assures Michel.
"Be careful, Pytho is also very strong", retorts Charruau, world champion with French U20 in 2013. Final score: 1-1 and a good laugh ...
Diego Michel, Raphaël Adiceam, Pythoclès Bazolo and Paul Charruau (from left to right).
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See you in Ligue 2?
3:15 p.m.
Stéphane Robillard, the manager of the Mercure hotel who has touched the pro world in Laval, wishes the Red Star good luck.
"I hope that the two teams will meet again in Ligue 2 next season", he confides, crossing, on their arrival, the president Patrice Haddad and his adviser Steve Marlet.
Bordot raises the tone at the chat
4:00 p.m.,
the chat starts right on time.
Vincent Bordot puts his feet in the dish from the start.
“Ok, it's a duel between the 1st and the 2nd but take it as a match like any other.
We have no questions to ask.
The coach raises the tone when talking about tactics.
“Against this team, you have to defend high and with intensity.
One does not go without the other.
The priority is not to give them anything, you have to hurt them, set them on fire ... "He repeats:" fire, fire ... "And to conclude determined:" For 95 minutes, you will show that you have heart.
It is your strength!
The outcome of the match will be for us because we are the strongest!
Go go! ”
Vincent Bordot during the pre-match talk.
"Mental, heart and pleasure," wrote the coach on the flipchart.
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We release the pressure in the bus
4:26 p.m.,
the Red Star bus leaves the hotel for the Diochon stadium, three short kilometers away.
Denis, who turns 59 this Friday, is driving.
Basically, Nathan Bizet, Hamadou Karamoko, Maxime Sivis and Mayoro Ndoye, whose birthday is also, release the pressure by watching videos on their cellphones.
Above them, the screen which offered great games on playstation the day before during the trip to Seine-Maritime is this time off.
Nathan Bizet, Hamadou Karamoko, Maxime Sivis and Mayoro Ndoye (from left to right).
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Lion Ndoye strikes twice
6:30 p.m.,
referee Antoine Valnet kicks off this shock.
Quevilly-Rouen remains on 5 wins and the Red Star on 16 points out of 18 (5 wins, 1 draw).
From the 10th minute, Cheikh Ndoye opened the scoring on a service from ex-Normand Maxime Sivis (1-0).
But after a parade from Charruau (21st), striker Jung equalizes following a ball badly cleared by the Audonian defense.
The 15th goal of the player loaned by Châteauroux (L 2).
Cheikh Ndoye to his joy after his double in the first period.
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Haddad frustrates President Haddad's club
8:21 p.m.,
it's over at the Robert-Diochon stadium.
Some Red Star players remain frustrated, hands on hips, by the result.
They have long been virtual leaders.
Until the full skylight strike (62nd) of the joker Manoubi Haddad, who has no family link with the Audonian president.
This draw (2-2) allows Quevilly-Rouen to keep the lead of the National.
The two contenders for Ligue 2 leave back to back.
The Red Star could even have spent the holidays in second place, but SC Bastia equalized in added time at the last Annecy (1-1).
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QUEVILLY-ROUEN - RED STAR 2-2 (1-2)
In camera.
Referee: M. Valnet.
Goals.
Quevilly-Rouen: Jung (24th), Haddad (62nd);
Red Star: Ch. Ndoye (10th, 37th).
Warning.
Red Star: Sivis (74th)
Quevilly-Rouen:
Lemaître - Taillan, Padovani (cap.), Nadé, Gobron - Bahassa, S. Sissoko (Toussaint, 84th), Sangaré (Haddad, 56th), Diaby - Jung, Dadoune.
Entr.
:
Irles.
Red Star:
Charruau - Sivis, Daillet (cap.), Karamoko, Sainte-Luce (Labor, 67th) - Koukou, Ch. Ndoye, Roye - Gomel (Michel, 76th), Bizet (Bazolo, 81st), Durand.
Entr.
:
Bordot.