The Stade de Reims without resources in Toulouse « Sport Club
Match to forget very quickly for Reims in Toulouse this afternoon. A defeat far from the supposed level of Oscar Garcia’s team for this 7th day of Ligue 1. Facing Toulouse but perhaps more inspired, the Rémois never managed to develop their game, especially as they once again played outnumbered. Our resume.
THE MATCH SHEET
TOULOUSE 1-0 REIMS STADIUM
HALF-TIME : 1-0
ARBITRATOR : Ms Stephanie Frappart
BUT : Aboukhlal (31st)
WARNINGS : For Toulouse Spierings (56th). For the Rémois Lopy (73rd), Abdelhamid (90th)
EXPULSION : Flips (61st)
TOULOUSE : Dupé – Desler (Keben, 79th), Rouault, Nicolaisen, Sylla (Zanden, 64th) – Sperings, Van Den Boomen, Aboukhlal (Genreau, 79th), Fares (Birmancevic, 71st), Diarra – Dallinga (Onaiwu, 64th). Entrance: Philippe Montanier
REIMS : Pentz – Gravillon (Van Bergen, 89th), Agbadou, Abdelhamid (cap) – Flips, Cadjus (Lopy, 69th), Munesti, Locko (Busi, 46th), Flips, Doumbia (Zeneli, 46th) – Ito (Mbuku, 80th ), Balogun. Entrance: Oscar Garcia (supplied by Will Still suspended car)
THE GAME
It is safe to say that this first half will not go down in the history of Stade de Reims and Ligue 1. Faced with a relatively messy but voluntary TFC, Garcia’s men have, on paper, all the weapons to dispose of their adversaries but they are even messier than their hosts. They only too rarely manage to find Ito and Balogun in good conditions, lack technical accuracy, especially in the middle and leave spaces for Toulouse. The only real brilliance, in the 7th minute, the still very active Ito generalizes Dupe’s recovery, Balogun recovers in an ideal position but the Gunner shoots into the goalkeeper’s gloves. It is therefore quite logical that the promoted opens the scoring with a nice movement, Aboukhlal launched by Fares Chaibi at the limit of offside which comes to fix Pentz (31st, 1-0). The end of the first forty-five minutes returns to the same pattern, despite some Toulouse errors poorly exploited by the Rémois.
At half-time, Garcia, from the stands, brought in Busi and Zeneli to energize the Reims attack and try to take control of the match. And it works. A little. Reims is higher, Toulouse leaves the ball and Zeneli hinders the Toulouse defense without unfortunately finding the key. And the situation worsens further in the 61st, third corner for the Stadium, cleared by the defense. On the counter-attack Dallinga throws in Aboukhlal in depth, Flips tackles but dries the attacker and annihilates an action of but in position of last defender, logical expulsion. Even in numerical superiority, Toulouse does not show much, and Dupé shows signs of feverishness. It is all the more frustrating that there is room to equalize. But the Rémois can’t do it and scare themselves on the Toulouse counterattacks, and fortunately the latter exploit them badly. The end of the match is totally unbridled, too much waste on each side to change the score. Reims never showed their real level today. Stade is 16th and first non-relegation with six points.
STATISTICS
- 2 – Two strikes, one on target in the first half, insufficient against a promoted player.
- 7 – Seventh game of the season and each time Stade de Reims conceded a goal. The first white sheet is long overdue.
- 4 – Fourth red in seven games, and that’s not counting those received by the staff, if some are questionable, it’s also a sign of feverishness on the Reims side.
RESULTS AND RANKING
NEXT MATCH
🆚 Monegasque
🏆 8th day of Ligue 1
📅 Sunday, September 18, 2022
⌚ 1:00 p.m.
🏟 Auguste Delaune Stadium, Reims