It has become the money-time of Reims. For the fifth time in their last seven games, Stade de Reims have managed to score and make the difference in the last minutes of a meeting. After Clermont (1-0), Lyon (2-1), Saint-Etienne (2-0), and Reims Sainte-Anne (1-0), Thaon-les-Vosges is also paying the price of an end of amazing match. We could also count the matches against Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Marseille where it is this time the opponent who made Reims fail. What to play with the nerves of the supporters.
For 92 minutes however this Sunday, the trap set by fans of Thaon-les-Vosges was perfect. Well in place, the National 3 club had offered few possibilities to voluntary Rémois but too rough and not always inspired. Perhaps it is the return of the truce or the many absences that can explain these difficulties. Territorial dominators, the Rémois never knew in the regulation time to find any loophole. Freshly entered into the game, Hugo Ekitiké made the task even more difficult for his teammates, excluded after a bad mood gesture.
Horby savior, Ekitiké sees red
So we had to wait until the 93rd minute. On a final free kick, Alexis Flips found Fraser Hornby alone at the far post. Barely entered after more than five months of absence, he pushed the ball into the empty goal. Incredible destiny for an incredible scenario, once again. Here is a laborious victory but which allows to launch 2022 in the best possible way. To believe that the most beautiful stories are written in adversity.
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In Thaon-les-Vosges (Stade Sayer), Stade de Reims beats Thaon-les-Vosges 1-0
- Half time : 0-0
- Arbitrator : Clement Turpin
- Goals – Hornby (93rd) for Reims
- Warnings : Rother (67th), Diego Alves (83rd) at Thaon; Mustapha Mbow (21st) for Stade de Reims
- Exclusion : from Rémois Hugo Ekitké (66th)
- Thaon : Parisot – Alves, Leroy, Lenoir, Rother (cap) – Gazagnes, Colin (Michelutti, 86th), Koriche (Didierjean, 88th), Comara – Dufour (Uhlrich, 65th), Lecoanet (Sanogo, 86th). Entr. : Romain Chouleur
- Reims : Diouf – Locko, Abdelhamid (cap), Faes, Mbow, Flips – Sissoko (Hornby, 92nd), K. Doumbia (Diakité, 73rd), Mbuku – Kebbal (Ekitiké, 60th), Koffi. Entrance: Oscar Garcia
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