Thomas Siniecki: published on Monday July 20, 2020 at 8:12 p.m.
PSG – ASSE, Friday evening, will mark the big comeback of competition in French football, with the final of the Coupe de France (at the Stade de France). All week long, we prepare this meeting together.
Paris Saint-Germain and AS Saint-Etienne have already faced each other once in the Coupe de France final. A match that has remained in the annals of the capital club: born only twelve years earlier, it was simply his first trophy. The scenario had been crazy. At the last minute of extra time, while the great Greens (champions for the last time the previous season) of Robert Herbin led 2-1 thanks to the double of a certain Michel Platini, the former Stéphanois Dominique Rocheteau equalizes. PSG president Francis Borelli kisses the pitch and supporters invade the pitch.
Lopez: “I thought we did 3-3! Serious! “
“Stéphanois or Parisiens, the people who entered the lawn had no animosity, remembers Luis Fernandez for France Football. There was no altercation, bad gestures. It was a good kid, it was a party, it marked me. We equalize, there could have been insults but no, it was wonderful to play in this climate. If you do this in 2020 … ” For the first time, shots on goal decide the winner after a draw. The only one missing his is Christian Lopez, who no longer remembered the score!
“I thought we had done 3-3, exclaims the Forézien captain. Serious! I do not know why. I knew that we had drawn and that we had lost in the penos. And seeing this match again, how many times have I started from behind! I crossed the lines, I came and I gave the ball to a striker! I was surprised by this. In the second half, in particular. I moved forward, I advanced and it moved away! “Also beaten the previous season in the final, Saint-Etienne had already offered a first Coupe de France to his opponent, in this case Bastia (2-1). Since then, the Greens had never found the final of the oldest French competitions.
The teams
PSG: Baratelli – Fernandez, Pilorget, Bathenay, Col (Renaut 120th) – Boubacar, Dahleb (N’Gom 84th), Lemoult – Surjak, Toko, Rocheteau.
ASSE: Castaneda – Battiston, Gardon (Noguès 67th), Lopez, Lestage – Larios, Janvion, Zanon – Paganelli (Roussey 67th), Platini, Rep.