Memories of the match may well haunt the dreams of USM Saran players for long nights. The Loiretain club’s U18 team lost this Sunday in Round of 16 on penalties in front of Bobignyafter a mind-blowing scenario between the two residents of Régional 1. The story was all about a buddy movie, with an ideal start to the match and a score of 2-0 at halftime (Leni Daudin and Hugo Do Vale Valente) in favor of the boys of Yoann Bodivit. But the film suddenly turned into a dramatic comedy. At 2-1 and a few moments from the end of the match, on a last corner in favor of the Ile-de-France residents, the wall gave way.
If against Boulogne-sur-Mer in the sixteenth round, USM Saran had perfectly negotiated its face to face, this time, the Loiretans lacked success, or nerve. Twice they had the opportunity to pass the Seine Saint-Denis club, without success. First on a magnificent save from the opposing goalkeeper then on a failed panenka. Ended. It is Bobigny who will be there for the quarter-finals.
More than a thousand spectators at the Jacques Mazzuca stadiums
A scenario that Yoann Bovidit had a hard time cashing in. The young coach, in tears at the end of the meeting, did not hide his immense disappointment: “We had the chances to score the third goal, we didn’t manage to score it, that’s how it is… It’s like the match, we have the penalty session in hand and we do the wrong things choices, which impact the whole team, but you had to have the guts to go and shoot them.“
More than a thousand spectators went this Sunday to the Jacques Mazzuca stadium in Saran to encourage the young team. The club had never gone so far in the Gambardella Cup.