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Coupe de France: Nice and Nantes dream of ending their scarcity

2022-05-06T15:22:20.370Z


STORY – Opposed in the final, the two clubs find the Stade de France to end more than twenty years without a trophy.


Few people were waiting for them there.

Nice and Nantes will however make their return to the Stade de France this Saturday (9 p.m., France 2).

Sixteen years later for the Aiglons, eighteen for the Canaries, the two teams sharing the memory of a lost League Cup final (against Nancy for Nice in 2006, against Sochaux for Nantes in 2004).

Disappeared in 2019, the second French cup presented an additional opportunity for French clubs to rally Saint-Denis at the end of the season, while PSG has been vampirizing the plateau for almost a decade.

Already deprived of any domestic cup in 2019 (for the first time since 2014), the club of the capital will be satisfied again this year with the only championship of France, following its elimination in the round of 16 of the Coupe de France against… Nice ( 0-0, 6-5 on tabs).

Fallers then Marseille (4-1) then Versailles (2-0), the Niçois therefore have the opportunity to afford a fourth Coupe de France… like FC Nantes.

Monaco winners…

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Source: lefigaro

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