Caen overthrows Sochaux who lose their place on the podium
Caen won 2-1 at Sochaux. Stade Malherbe moved up to seventh place, two points behind their evening opponent.
FC Sochaux recorded their second defeat of the season at home and their third in a row on Friday against Caen (2-1) in the last match on the program for the 19th and final day and the first leg of Ligue 2.
Third before the day, Sochaux ends this first leg in fourth place, level on points (30) with Grenoble (5th), but one length behind Metz (3rd), three behind Bordeaux (2nd) and twelve behind Le Havre , the leader of the party with great strides towards Ligue 1.
Stade Malherbe, for its part, moved from ninth to seventh place, just two points behind Sochaux.
This meeting had been postponed to this Friday due to the death nine days ago of the wife of Caen coach Stéphane Moulin, once again replaced at Sochaux by his assistant Patrice Sauvaget.
Sochaux opened the scoring through Moussa Doumbia, with a shot between the legs of Anthony Louis Mandrea, the Norman goalkeeper (8th). The Sochaliens had the break point on a counter-attack but Tony Mauricio chose to go alone after the action and his curling shot with the left foot was deflected by Mandrea (45 + 2).
In the second half, the Caennais Alexandre Mendy equalized on a whistled penalty for a foul by Franck Kanouté on Bilal Brahimi. In the 80th minute, the Sochaliens thought they would regain the advantage but Aldo Kalulu’s headed goal was disallowed because the linesman reached that the ball was out of bounds before Valentin Henry’s cross.
And finally Caen, who until then had only won one away game this season, in Nîmes (1-0) on the first day, snatched the three points by taking advantage of a gross error. by Maxence Prevot.
The Sochaux goalkeeper indeed cleared in the feet of Hiang’a Mbock who immediately alerted Bilal Brahimi, who scored the winning goal – and his first of the season – with a cross shot from the left. Caen had not won for five games.