Bordeaux and its “cap goal”, Frédéric Antonetti the “unloved” and the perfect score of Alban Lafont

Ihe Paris-Saint-Germain don’t like the west of France. Already beaten by Rennes in October (2-0), PSG lost to Nantes on Saturday (3-2) in a match marked by the penalty missed by Neymar – or stopped by Alban Lafont. A matter of perspective…

For its part, Nice ensured the essential with a victory without the manner against Angers to stay on the podium (3^and 14 points behind the Parisian leader). Winner 4-1 of Troyes, Stade Rennes regained fluidity in their game last autumn, like the third goal scored by Martin Terrier at the end of a school action.

• The first of the weekend:

Former coach of Reims, David Guion accepted a delicate mission, to save a monument in danger of French football: Bordeaux. For his first on the Girondins bench against Monaco on Sunday, Vladimir Petkovic’s successor had everything to see his team win and finally leave the last place in the standings. After the opening of the scoring by Rémi Oudin at 22^and minute, international midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni was sent off thirteen minutes later.

At eleven against ten, Bordeaux dominates but remains a very fragile little being. Guion knows statistics. With 61 goals conceded this season, his new team has the worst defense in the five major European leagues. The 62^and mostly due to bad luck. At the 67^and minute, Gelson Martins strikes, Anel Ahmedhodzic pushes back with his head on his teammate, Marcelo who had his back to him. Unintentionally, the Brazilian (who arrived from Lyon this winter) scores against his camp.

“We took a cap goal, we weren’t too successful, but it’s always like that when you’re at the bottom of the standings. But I remain convinced that with what we have shown on the field, we will get out of it., wanted to believe goalkeeper Gaëtan Poussin at the microphone of Canal +. In their misfortune, David Guion and the Bordelais only ever point to one point from 16^andSaint-Etienne, another big name in Ligue 1 threatened by relegation.

As its illustrious name suggests, Justin Kluivert is a “son of”. In the 1990s and 2000s, Patrick, his father, was one of the most efficient and elegant number 9s of his generation. In recent weeks and after a start to the season marred by injuries, Justin has started to make a name for himself in Nice. On Sunday, the Dutchman gave the Aiglons victory against Angers (1-0) with a goal full of speed and opportunism. Two qualities inherited from dad, even if Kluivert junior flourishes more on an attacking side.

Author of three goals and three assists in Ligue 1, the player on loan from Ajax Amsterdam confirms the promises and makes up for lost time after two failed experiences at AS Roma and RB Leipzig (already on loan). “If he is in Nice, it is because the club has grown but Justin has not broken everything as planned”confessed to ParisianJulien Fournier, the club’s director of football.

But Fournier found the arguments to convince his agent, the very influential and tough in business Mino Raiola. “Today, he has proof that he hasn’t been told stories, that Nice is a good club with a very good coach. [Christophe Galtier] »continues Fournier.

Dad – who advised this choice – does not regret it for the moment. “Justin is lucky to be under the orders of a great coach, who won the title with Lille. Justin is fulfilled by his side. I feel that he is on the right track, that he is very focused,” advanced the former Netherlands striker in the columns of Nice morning at the beginning of the month. What encourage, at the end of the season, the leaders of Nice to exercise the purchase option of 15 million euros?

• The statement of the weekend

” I have to do the service redneck… You love BCBG coaches. In France, you only like BCBG. I’m not loved, I know it. »

Frederic Antonetti is not going to begin, at 60, a career as a Buddhist monk. The FC Metz coach has always been hot-blooded, and his altercation on Friday with Sylvain Armand, Lille’s sports coordinator, is only the last episode of a career full of bloodshed and rants against a player, a referee, or even a supporter of his own club. In a press conference, after a sad 0-0, the Corsican once again gave his version of the ” unloved “ by Claude Francois. Its classic since 1994 and its beginnings in Bastia.

💬 Furious, Frédéric Antonetti leaves the press conference: “You love BCBG coaches, I’m not B… https://t.co/wmDwEK330j

— the team (@THE TEAM)

The event is almost as rare as a February 29. Yes, we scored a goal in France from an indirect free kick in the box. Direction the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium for Saint-Etienne – Strasbourg. On the first attack from Saint-Etienne, the Alsatian goalkeeper Matz Sels recovers with his hands a ball given voluntarily by one of his defenders (at least according to Mr. Gautier). Shifted by Denis Bouanga to 10 meters, Ryad Boudebouz avoids the Maginot line formed by the Strasbourgeois and opens the scoring with a shot from the left foot in the skylight. Splendid but insufficient to allow the Greens to win (2-2).

📸 4 photos for an indirect CF: so rare! #ASSERCSA #Boudebouz https://t.co/YbcdRJbxZx

— FreeLigue1 (@Free Ligue 1)

10

Like the note from Nantes Alban Lafont in The Team after his performance against PSG (3-1). This is the first time that the sports daily has given the maximum score to a goalkeeper in the French championship.

Before him, two other porters hit a 10: the late Bruno Martini in 1988 during France’s victory in the final of the Euro hopes against Greece (3-0) and Lars Windfled. Who is that ? In 2002, the Dane had the match of his life in the cages of Aarhus… in Nantes in 32^are UEFA Cup final (1-0 win and 2-2 second leg qualification).