The day after OM’s forceps victory against Nantes (2-1), the third day of Ligue 1 continues. While the meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. saw the Rémois and the Strasbourg residents neutralize each other, the multiplex offered entertainment and a festival of red cards.
Brest and Auxerre won two great victories, against Angers (3-0) and Montpellier (4-2). Nice, reduced to nine, for its part showed a still worrying face by stumbling over Clermont (1-0). Toulouse and Lorient left on a parity score (2-2). Back to the highlights of the afternoon.
The concern: Nice still can’t do it
Nice hoped to start their season with a first success. The scenario was quite different. Led from the sixth minute by sharper Clermontois, the Gym was scuttled. Reduced to ten after the expulsion of Mario Lemina (79th) then to nine, after the red card of Jean-Clair Todibo (82nd), the people of Nice lived through a nightmarish afternoon in Auvergne. Uninspired, often jostled by the Clermont offensives, Lucien Favre’s men remain far from the level expected for a European club. Five days before a thorny return match against Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Nice has still not won a single match this season and is in a mediocre 15th place (2 points).
The scenario: Auxerre overthrows Montpellier
A first victory, and a crazy scenario. The Montpellier team had entered their match well, logically opening the scoring in the 39th minute on a nice header from Mamadou Sakho. The second act, however, turned into a fiasco. In addition to the four red cards distributed (Fayad and Savanier for the MHSC, Niang and Da Costa for the AJA), the Auxerrois, however imprecise and rough, took advantage of the cacophony to reverse the course of the match in the space of three minutes. .
L’@AJA signs his first victory of the season in a very lively match with 3 goals and 4 red cards https://t.co/NTshnwd5RN#MHSCAJA pic.twitter.com/bLjKewsQBd
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Nuno da Costa thus took to against the foot the Montpellier goalkeeper (70th) then Mathias Autret converted a penalty obtained after a foul by Mamadou Sakho on Paul Joly. This is the first success of the promoted Burgundian.
Disappointment: Reims snatch a draw, Strasbourg does not take off
Still in slow motion, the two teams parted ways with a score of parity (1-1) and are stagnating at the bottom of the standings. If the Strasbourg have long led to the score at La Meinau (Djiku, 45th + 3), the men of Julien Stéphan did not manage to secure a first victory. In the final moments, Folarin Balogun beat Matz Sels (81st), scoring his third Ligue 1 goal and giving Les Rémois their first point.
The Champenois offered an attractive offensive score, boosted by the Folarin Balogun-Junya Ito association. The Japanese international struggled against feverish Strasbourg (24th, 45th, 56th) but came up against the Alsatian goalkeeper, still formidable on Sunday. On the other hand, the Rémois were still weighed down by their defense. They conceded nine goals in three games (four in Marseille and four against Clermont), the second-worst total in the French championship.
The player: The Douaron organizes a festival with Brest
One-way. Angers suffered offensive fire from Jérémy Le Douaron. Author of a double (10th, 38th), the Brestois dynamited the Angevin lines. Reduced to ten after the expulsion of Halid Sabanovic half an hour into the game, the Bretons worsened the score thanks to Achraf Dari (65th). The only breath of fresh air for Angers came from Sofiane Boufal (70th). Brest thus signs its first victory in the league this season while Angers sinks into the bottom of the classification.
Already author of a double at Raymond-Kopa, the Brest striker @JeremyLeDouaron definitely love to travel!#SCOSB29 (0-2) pic.twitter.com/wWIwDgklHe
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The match: Toulouse and Lorient, back to back, put on a show
We had to start the machine. The promoted Toulouse found himself led from the start by Hakes who found the fault from the second minute, on a strike from Armand Laurienté. The Bretons could have made the break on a penalty, on the contrary they offered the equalizer to Toulouse on a missed clearance (31st) before seeing Thijs Dallinga (63rd) give the advantage to Téfécé. The Bretons finally picked up in extremis on a new penalty (Stéphane Diarra, 80th, 2-2) after a particularly exciting match.