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Coupe de France: Bordeaux eliminated by Brest and the Covid, Nantes without a hitch

2022-01-02T15:42:14.968Z


Bordeaux, decimated by 21 positive Covid-19 cases, was eliminated by Brest (3-0) in the round of 16 on Sunday, unlike Nantes qualified for the eighth, like Versailles (4th division) who climbed to this stadium for the first time in its history.


With more than half of their starting team (six players) from the reserve, the Girondins de Bordeaux, already not very dashing 17th in the league, suffered against the entire Brestois.

Despite the protests of Bordeaux president Gérard Lopez denouncing a "lack of respect", the meeting, one of the three posters of the sixteenth between two Ligue 1 teams, was not postponed by the Federation.

And the Girondine team with a very youthful face made a mistake after half an hour of play. Its young defender Tijany Atallah, 18 years old and not the slightest minute disputed with the professionals, intervened late in the area on Romain Faivre (35th). After this first penalty, transformed by Steve Mounié, Timothée Pembélé conceded another, converted from a panenka this time by Faivre (81st), author of his 8th goal of the season. Jérémy Le Douaron increased the score at the very end of the match (90th + 4).

No miracle for Vitré either. As in the quarter-finals two years ago, the Breton amateurs who play in the 4th division were outclassed by Nantes (2-0). In his garden - since the match was relocated to Beaujoire by the FFF for security reasons - the canary captain of the day Ludovic Blas opened the scoring (25th) with a strike placed at the entrance to the surface after a center in one touch of his side Fabio. Also decisive passer for Willem Geubbels for the break (68th).

Toulouse, runner-up in the 2nd division, also enforced the hierarchy (1-0) in Cannes (5th division) thanks to a goal from its Brazilian striker Rafael Ratao (52nd), at the conclusion of a tense cross from the Japanese Ado Onaiwu . The club of the beginnings of Zinédine Zidane will not repeat its course of 2014 when it had climbed to the quarter-finals after having brought down two teams of the Elite, Saint-Etienne and Montpellier, as well as a 2nd division .

On the other hand, Versailles (D4), wide winner (4-0) of La Roche Vendée, resident of the lower division, reached for the first time the knockout stages of the Coupe de France.

The club of Jean-Luc Arribart (general manager) had frozen the score at half-time thanks in particular to a beautiful goal from the ex-side of the reserve of PSG Makan Traoré: a volley from the outside from the left corner of the surface.

Source: lefigaro

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