President Pierre Ferracci, sports director François Ferracci and all the Paris FC staff fall into the arms of Nouha Dicko.
The 31-year-old striker, who arrived from OFI Crete (D1 Greece), on January 31, was decisive with a goal and an assist to beat AC Ajaccio (2-0), a direct opponent for the playoffs.
Paris FC moved up to 7th place, 1 point behind Rodez (5th).
The end of the season therefore promises to be thrilling.
But its players deserve to play on a pitch that is not a plowing field or to not have to relocate more than 200 km from Paris to play their “home” matches.
Certainly, Paris FC is now at home at the Michel-d'Ornano stadium in Caen as proven by this 2nd victory in 8 days.
But this Saturday evening, it was in front of empty stands.
Despite the travel offered by the club, there were only two buses full and there were only… 405 spectators.
The time now seems to be for dialogue between Paris FC and the Paris town hall after the media skirmishes which pitted them against each other in our columns.
The main thing is that a solution is found so that the Parisian club can host Grenoble in good conditions, on April 6, at Charléty.
As for the match, the first period was poor offensively (only 3 shots on the PFC side) but tense and punctuated by numerous skirmishes.
We have often seen Pierre-Yves Hamel, always so generous in defending, on the ground after contact with ACA players.
The 4th or 5th was fatal to him.
After a clash with Mangani, Paris FC's top scorer (8 goals), injured for two months and making his return as a starter, had to leave with a knee injury.
Already lacking in attackers (Lopez, Diaby Fadiga, Jabbari injured, Gory not 100% on the bench), the Parisian team lost one of its best offensive weapons.
Alimami Gory, scorer then injured
But she was therefore able to count on the awakening of Nouha Dicko, who finally unlocked her counter.
The Malian international first did a great job to offer his 7th goal of the season (1-0, 53rd) to Alimami Gory (entered at half-time) before scoring his first goal in the colors of PFC a nice volley from a very tight angle (2-0, 63rd).
Between these two goals, Paris FC experienced another hard blow with the exit due to injury of Gory, stopped short by pain behind the thigh, after an acceleration.
He will therefore only have spent 15 minutes on the pitch, enough time to score a goal.
Called up again by Thierry Henry in the French hopefuls team as 3rd goalkeeper, Obed Nkambadio also distinguished himself by flying in on Barreto's shot (66th).
At the end of the match, Stéphane Gilli even offered his first minutes in L2 to Mohamed Dao, 17 years old.
It has now been four games since Paris FC have conceded a goal.
An invincibility which coincides with the return of Samir Chergui to central defense after his long injury.
Even if Paris FC pulled off a superb blow from an accounting standpoint, this match will perhaps also leave its mark with the injuries to Hamel and Gory.
Match sheet
PARIS FC - AC AJACCIO 2-0 (0-0)
Spectators: 405.
Referee: Mr. Kherradji.
Goals.
Gory (53rd) Dicko (64th).
Warnings.
Paris FC: Camara (27th), Gaudin (88th), Ajaccio: Jacob (57th)
Paris FC: Nkambadio - Dabila (Koré, 90 + 1), Chergui, Mbow, Gaudin, - Mandouki (cap.), Camara - Dicko (Dao, 90th + 1) Kebbal, Lukembila (Gory, 46th, then Doucet, 62nd) - Hamel (Ollila, 40th).
Enter.
: Gilli.