Tops
Ludovic Blas
Undoubtedly the best player of FC Nantes tonight. He brings movement to the Nantes game, always focused on the goal and initiating practically every action of his team. His ball catches are impeccable, his passes too, all in very good timing to find his partners. Scorer from the 10th minute on a very good solo breakthrough against the Toulouse defense, he slipped the ball perfectly between the post and the goalkeeper. Precious in the midfield, scorer and who could have been a decisive passer if Louza had not missed his chances so much, the young Frenchman was dazzling tonight.
Nicolas Pallois
The captain had warned before kick-off: he was going to give everything for the club. The experienced 33-year-old central defender knows what a descent in Ligue 2 costs, and has done everything to prevent FC Nantes from taking the path. Concentrated for 90 minutes, he repelled each Toulouse offensive, head or foot. He also made the effort when it was necessary to go up to address a tackle or change sides to annihilate a Toulouse pass that went off behind his back. With 6 clearances, 4 tackles and two interceptions, he guided his defense as a boss to disgust an attack from Toulouse which was struggling to be effective.
Randal Kolo Muani
Author of the goal which allows Nantes to return to the front, the French striker did not miss the Euro Espoirs for nothing!
Constantly bringing danger behind the Toulouse defense, he makes his speed and technique speak to be decisive.
He throws himself quickly to reach the surface, turning into a real fox of the surfaces ready to pounce on each ball put back in the axis by his opponents.
Faced with Gabrielsen who had trouble containing him, he passed more than once to try to put in center or pass back.
Exit exhausted in the 87th, he will have largely fulfilled his task from the top of his 22 years.
Flops
Sebastien Dewaest
The Belgian central defender was catastrophic. Letting almost every Toulouse attack pass behind his back, he makes his comrade Amian shine, forced to come and correct his defensive largesse. Guilty on the first goal of Ludo Blas, watching him do it instead of coming up to defend, he repeats the second goal not having followed the action when Kolo Muani followed him well. He also allows himself to criticize the placements of his teammates, while his own are not exempt from all reproach. We hope for Toulouse that he will be more focused in the return match.
Maxime Dupé
To be put in the same bag as his defender, except that he is going to get the ball at the back of the net. On the first Nantes goal, he did not cover his angle enough and Blas managed to slip the ball between him and the post. On the second goal, he does not have a firm enough hand and releases a ball in the feet of Kolo Muani who only has to push. Not very reassuring on his aerial outings, even less when it comes to relaunching short for his defenders, the Toulouse goalkeeper can be happy not to have cashed more tonight.
Vakoun Bayo
If it is he who is with the decisive pass for the goal of the equalizer of Coulibaly, this will be one of the only actions that the striker will have felt during his match.
The Ivorian striker in great shape in early May had a hard time getting into the rhythm of the match, slowing down Toulouse's attacks.
Adli and Koné tried to do without their top striker, but faced with a well-organized Nantes attack, they struggled to build without him.
The Toulouse attack as a whole did not know how to combine enough to be dangerous.
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