After their embellishment at the start of the year, these Aiglons have the wings cut. Frustrated by Olympique Lyonnais last Sunday (0-2), the OGC Nice lost ground in the race for Europe by dropping two points on the Gong against theAJ Auxerre (1-1). The merit also returns to the promoted, which has become a bone against which the most hungry wild beasts in the championship are breaking their teeth this season.
Christophe Pélissier's team has been to seek this point with the virtues and ingredients that define it: tactical great coherence, a fire goalkeeper, dazzling and a big tenacity. By closing the valves in the first half, she first made this beautiful Nice team helpless in a torrential rain, but the plan cracked on one of his weak points, a corner exploited by the strong man of the gym, Evann Guessand, whose powerful helmet hit after a first clever deviation from Gaëtan Laborde (1-0, 34th).
Nice missed the mark
Another match then started. And it was dominated by the Aiglons, in large proportions. Guessand, but also Laborde and the untenable Melvin Bard have multiplied the assaults on the Auxerrois goal, without managing to make the break. Because it was an evening when Donovan Léon clogged all the angles and came out like a bomb in the opponent's feet. Omnipresent on his line or in his outings, the AJA goalkeeper has released an XXL performance to keep his team alive.
Still had to take advantage of it. But as the promoted has already taken a big step towards maintenance, Christophe Pélissier did not hesitate to change his strategy by swapping his 3-4-2-1 for an offensive 4-2-4 in the last quarter of an hour. The release of the dangerous Hamed Junior Traoré had been a hard blow, but AJA did not stop believing it. And she ended up letting go of the horses.
The expulsion of Bard for a gross fault in the 88th created a wind of panic, in which the incoming Florian Ay was engulfed to equalize with a dry strike under the bar after a good teenage service onaiwu, also launched in the big bath. Winning coaching. For Nice, still third, this week marks a real stop. AJA, for its part, will approach this last straight line with a large heart and light legs.
