Paris FC extinguished Geoffroy-Guichard and pushed Saint-Étienne a little further into the crisis.
The Parisians, who were also going through a somewhat troubled period, reassured themselves.
In Geoffroy-Guichard, this team has rediscovered the values that have made the strength of the PFC in recent seasons, great defensive solidity, real offensive efficiency (2 shots on target and 2 goals scored) and a united collective, which plays together.
Without a doubt, his best game since the start of the championship.
And a founding act for the future?
What you must remember
Thierry Laurey had chosen to return to a more cautious system than in recent games with the tenures of Hanin, Hadjam, Phiri and four attacking players on the bench.
But as often outside, Paris FC delivered a good performance, putting on intensity and winning duels (70% in the 1st half).
In the first period, Ivan Filipovic was not worried in his goals.
He just missed a goal for the Parisians which could have arrived on a good collective action (12th), the breakthrough of Cyril Mandouki (43rd) or the return of Morgan Guilavogui which grazes the skylight (45th).
Referee M. Perreau-Niel also did not really make it easy for the PFC by forgetting to whistle an obvious foul on Gory (33rd) or by only giving a yellow on the big tackle from Chambost (35th) which would have must have deserved a red.
When it resumed, Paris FC did not release the pressure.
The Greens are suffocated.
It is rather logical that Julien Le Cardinal opens the scoring (0-1, 61st) by lobbing Green.
The defender who arrived from SC Bastia scores his first goal with the PFC, the 3rd of his career in L2.
Author of a huge parade on a strike from Mouton (73rd), Filipovic, who already had a yellow card, was stupidly expelled for having tried to protect the ball so that it ended in goal clearance (76th).
The legend of the club Vincent Demarconnay, relegated to the rank of understudy, makes his debut in L2 this season.
In numerical inferiority, Paris FC manages to score on a nice outbound ball initiated by Le Cardinal.
On the center of Jonathan Iglesias, Warren Caddy finds the post but Mehdi Chahiri recovers and deceives Green after a nice technical number (0-2, 82nd).
The Kop Vert is screaming “direction resignation”… Paris FC may have found its reference match and finally launched its season.
The player: Julien Le Cardinal
Solid defensively, the former amateur in Saint-Brieuc (25 years old) where he multiplied odd jobs, was also decisive on the offensive level.
The Parisian right side opened the scoring with a clever lob before being at the origin of the block on the 2nd goal.
15 days ago in Nîmes, he was behind the winning goal, his header from a corner being deflected by a Nîmes defender.
Julien Le Cardinal, transferred from SC Bastia, confirms match after match his good start to the season with Paris FC.
The number: 3
After Grenoble and Nîmes, Paris FC won their third away victory in a row.
The reverse curve of his results at home where he remains on 3 consecutive defeats.
Away, he took 12 points in 7 games.
MATCH SHEET
SAINT-ETIENNE - PARIS FC 0-2 (0-0).
Referee: Mr. Perreau-Niel.
Goals.
The Cardinal (61st), Chahiri (82nd).
Warnings.
Saint-Étienne: Bouchouari (31st), Chambost (36th);
Paris FC: Mandouki (36th), Filipovic (66th), Phiri (89th).
Expulsion.
Paris FC: Filipovic (76th).
Saint-Étienne: Green - Bakayoko (Silva, 46th), Briançon (cap.), Nadé, Maçon (Othman, 75th) - Bouchouari (Moueffek, 62nd), Monconduit - Cafaro (Pintor, 10th), Chambost, Lobry (Mouton, 62nd)- Wadji Entr.
: Battles.
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Paris FC: Filipovic - Le Cardinal, Chergui, Lefort, Hanin - Mandouki (cap.), Phiri, Iglesias - Hadjam (Demarconnay 76th), Guilavogui (Caddy, 75th), Gory (Chahiri, 74th).
Entr.
: Laurey.
