Strong defense, the Canaries have imposed 2-0 at home against the Bastians, who missed realism.
Le Monde with AFP
Nantes was offered on Thursday 10 February a place for the semi-finals of France cutting Bastia 2 to 0, after a rather dull match. They will play against AS Monaco on March 2nd.
Apathetic a good part of the meeting, despite the enthusiastic support of nearly 25,000 spectators, the Canaries have been able to count as often on the goals of Ludovic Blas and Randal Kolo Muani, but also on the clumsiness of the attackers bastiais and the Vigilance of their guardian Rémy Descamps.
Trained for a year Battery by Antoine Kombouaré, who handed them over the rails after the strange parenthesis Raymond Domenech, the Nantes are now well installed in the middle of the table of L1 and are more than a stage of the stadium of France. They immediately took an option on this match: jostled at the entrance of the surface, Kolo Muani got a penalty after forty seconds, that Blas was responsible for transforming from an unstoppable stamp under the transversal ( 1-0, 3 e ).
Folding Nantes in Defense
But the Canaries then quickly folded down, not creating more game and endangering the back with a series of approximate passes. Much more enterprising and supported by nearly 400 fans arrived on two charter flights, the Bastians did not take advantage of a succession of opportunities.
For lack of inspiration in the last gesture, but also because of the guardian Nantais Descamps, which interposed against Benjamin Santelli (9 e , 38 e 43 e ) and Julien the cardinal (16 e ), before seeing his right post repel a striking of Christophe Vincent (27 e ).
In the second half, the Nantes started keeping the ball and approaching the basty goal, thanks in particular to several breakthroughs of Moses Simon. And they were finally sheltered when the basty goalkeeper Johny Placide pushed a center of Blas on a Kolo Muani forgotten in the surface and had all the time to arm his striking (2-0, 71 e ).
for Bastia, who dreamed of a new half-final thirty years after the drama of Furiani (nineteen dead and more than 2,300 wounded), it is a hard return to the reality of the fight for the maintenance in L2 (17 e ).