Ligue 2. Reduced to 10 and joined on the wire in Rodez, FC Annecy will still have to wait
It seems that in a game with six points, it’s already good to take three. Well, it failed. Against a team that never scores, it’s already a lot to open the scoring. Well, that wasn’t enough. Yet this is what FC Annecy had done, opening the scoring for the first time this season, against Ruthénois who had not found the way to the goal since last spring before this Saturday. But in this month of August when the Haut-Savoyards throw crazy scenarios at us every weekend, it obviously wasn’t going to be that simple.
Mendy expelled, not Cibois
This Saturday, Guyot had decided to launch from the kick-off Pajot, his flagship rookie transfer window in hand still largely protected after his fracture in July. But, very quickly, that was no longer the attraction of the meeting at all in a first period when the choices of the referee M.Legat fueled the discussions, at least in the spans of Paul-Lignon; misunderstanding, at least also, in the Haut-Savoyard clan. Because if the choice to award a penalty to Rodez for a clash between Mendy and Corredo (29th) already seemed very questionable compared to the one that was clear and clear in favor of Haut-Savoyards after Cibois jumped with both feet on Farade launched towards the goal (1st). Sahi for Annecy (0-1, 3rd sp) and Danger for the RAF (1-1, 32nd sp) had done the trick to score their respective penalties but the controversy over the decision to leave Cibois on the field while Mendy was expelled and left Annecy at ten for an hour. It was as debatable as it was surprising.
Stopovers on fire
But Guyot didn’t even have time to reorganize his team yet, abandoning his five-man defense for a more common 4-4-1 in numerical inferiority than his men had already regained the lead on a nice job from Testud and Bosetti, who gave way to Sahi, for the first but from a Haute-Savoie striker in the game this season (33rd, 1-2). What followed would only be a long siege of the goal of Escales. Guilty last week on the goal of the defeat against Laval (1-0), the Annecy goalkeeper responded a week later in a resounding way. Very sure in the air, fox to turn the clock, the ex-Marseillais did everything well and above all came out two face-to-face in front of Boissier (52nd, 54th). Great art. But it only served to get a point – the first of course – because Depres, just before stoppage time began, ended up equalizing (2-2, 90th). Decidedly, nothing will be given to FC Annecy this season.
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