Irreducible Auxerrois. The term chosen by theAJA
to launch its season ticket campaign, in the heart of summer, has a particular resonance. The Ligue 2 champions were irreducible. They even did a little better than that to overcome OGC Nice, in a roaring Abbé-Deschamps stadium, at tea time.
Formidably tenacious, Jubal and his teammates had resisted the Aiglons’ attacks as best they could when the young Lasso Coulibaly, launched by his coach a handful of seconds earlier, benefited from a long ball from Donovan Léon to lob Marcin Bulka and plunge an entire arena into jubilation (2-1, 90th+3).
AJA has a soul
The final point of a great afternoon for an AJA team that had been through all sorts of trouble. Valiant and consistent in the first half, the Burgundians were caught cold, on a header from Mohamed-Ali Cho (0-1, 21st). It looked like a hazing of Ligue 1, a way of reminding us that the elite leaves no room for approximation in both areas. But after getting their necks wet, the Auxerrois let loose, as the minutes went by, giving the impression of feeling like fish in water before equalizing without anyone finding anything to complain about, just before half-time, on a great sequence of moves from Rayan Raveloson (1-1, 43rd).
Before and after that, Bulka had multiplied the feats in his goal to embody the realism of a Nice team well decimated. Franck Haise’s men had their spots after the break, as fatigue gained ground. But Auxerre, carried by its public, resisted the contrary winds when Léon did not play the hero on hot situations of the visitors, against Brahimi in particular (63rd). AJA has two certainties: it has marrow and a soul. So many precious virtues, to survive in the hostile jungle of Ligue 1.
