Lens-ASSE
2-0
After the defeat in Rennes, a week ago in Geoffroy-Guichard (0-3), the Greens fell again in Lens (2-0) on Saturday afternoon. And the whole paradox of this meeting is that the Greens, with a team still very young, were weighed down by their experience. At the quarter of an hour of play, Kolodziejczak (29), taken like a bruise by the control of Ignatius Ganagos, slices him in the box. Helped by the VAR and the injury of the Lensois attacker, evacuated on a stretcher, Mr. Dechepy changed his warning to a red card and Kakuta executed Moulin (1-0, 15th).
After the hour mark, Khazri entered the break for his return to the squad, in turn was sent straight back to the locker room for a tackle on Gradit on the edge of the northern area. Claude Puel, mad with rage at this decision, finally resigned himself to sitting down on his bench. The general manager knows that the damage is already done. Because his team, ten from the quarter of an hour of play, has never been able to equalize.
A defense made of odds and ends
Already very annoyed by Blood and Gold players and full of control, the Ligériens sleep in their camp since the attempt of Bouanga rejected by Leca (4th). Before, Kolodziejczak, again, failed to deceive Moulin on a cross from Clauss (2nd). The Forézienne defense made of odds and ends – Sissoko, loaned to Le Puy (National) last year, first tenure; Sow, entered in place of Rivera after Kolo’s red in the axis, first pro game; Mason, right-handed, in the left corridor – sudden. Medina, scorer, is finally signaled offside after intervention by VAR (20th), Moulin intervenes in two stages in front of Sotoca (35th) and Moukoudi, one of the only ones to keep his head above water, saves several times the homeland.
Harmless, AS Saint-Étienne can thank their goalkeeper, inspired by a header from Banza higher than a dying Sissoko, for leaving her alive just after the locker room (46 ‘). Bouanga, very frustrated, and Nordin, are hardly ever found.
Opposite, Franck Haise’s men spoil several opportunities to add to the addition and take cover (53rd, 60th; 72nd). They succeed ten minutes from the end of the game, Sotoca taking a header from a corner (2-0, 82nd). West in the North, the Stéphanois will take advantage of the international break and two weeks before the reception in Nice to get back to where they are. Claude Puel and his staff have only a few hours before the end of the transfer window on Monday evening …