It would take an incredible combination of circumstances for Grenoble not to play in Ligue 2 next season. Rodez, the 18th, is nine points from Grenoble, waiting to play Monday against Toulouse, leader, already promoted in Ligue 1, and who is now aiming for the title of champion. If the Ruthénois do not win against the Toulouse, the GF38 will be officially maintained in Ligue 2, even before playing his last two games, against Ajaccio and Paris FC, two big fish who also have their sights set on the rise. Clearly, a non-victory for Rodez on Monday would remove a sacred thorn from the side of the Isérois.
This Saturday, April 30, they could not, nor knew how to win this match against Amiens. They didn’t know, because the Grenoble, after their very good first half, punctuated by the opener of the score of Anani (40th), plunged physically in the second half, being gently brought up by the Amiens, finally equalizers by Badji (65th). The man of recent weeks, the twirling Bamba Sanyang, symbolized it well: decisive passer in the first act but then invisible in the second and replaced in the 72nd minute. And then the Isérois could not come back, because despite their solid state of mind, they still saw two players out through injury : Straalman, from the 15th minute, on a rather innocuous collision with the former Grenoble resident Benet, and for whom the injury seems very serious; Tell, then, in the 25th minute, mowed down by a muscle problem in his knee. The side Jordy Gaspar, replaced in the 71st, also finished the match diminished. Bad luck for the GF38, who, at the end of the season, must already do without Ravet, Pérez, Diallo, or even Ngando, so many usual starters. Isère will be behind Toulouse on Monday to officially record the maintenance, and turn the page on this galley season until the end…