It's a difficult moment that Trojan fans are starting to get used to. For the fourth time in ten years, ESTAC will go down to Ligue 2. The rout of Troyes, this Sunday in Rennes (4-0), has definitively sealed the fate of Adil Rami and his family.
🔚 End of the meeting.#SRFCESTAC 🔵 ⚪️ pic.twitter.com/kQQITMBM4j
— ESTAC Troyes (@estac_officiel) May 14, 2023
Penultimate in Ligue 1 with only 22 points in 35 rounds, the Aube club can no longer mathematically catch up with Auxerre, first non-relegable and holder of 34 points. As a reminder, the last four of the elite are automatically relegated this season, due to the increase from 20 to 18 clubs from next season.
We already know three of the four clubs that are preparing to become residents of Ligue 2. Yesterday, it was AC Ajaccio who validated, in spite of himself, his ticket for the lower echelon of French football. Here too, it was a heavy defeat that made the case official, with a slap received at the Parc des Princes against the Parisian leader (5-0).
With Angers, a regular of the elite finds the Ligue 2
If Troyes had managed to maintain last season by finishing 15th - its only maintenance in Ligue 1 for ten years - and was therefore celebrating its second consecutive season in the elite, Ajaccio made its return this season. The promoted is already taking the opposite path, just like Angers.
The SCO had become a regular in the League of Talents. Since 2015-2016, the Angevins were residents of the elite, a series that is about to stop. Good last with only three wins and 14 points since the beginning of the championship, Angers is condemned to Ligue 2 since the end of April and the 33rd day, after a defeat in Rennes (4-2).
It remains to be seen who will accompany these three clubs in the descent. This should be played between Nantes and Auxerre, respectively 17th and 16th, unless Strasbourg or Brest are caught on the gong.