Brestois and Lille left on a parity score (3-3) after a match that will have offered its share of twists and turns on the first day of Ligue 1 on Sunday.
He was expected, he responded. Thirteen years after his departure from Montpellier, Olivier Giroud succeeded in Ligue 1, opening the scoring for his debut with Lille, held in check in Brest (3-3) Sunday on the first day.
On his first occasion, born from a luminous pass from another summer recruit, the Portuguese winger Félix Correia, Giroud was cold: a strike from the left without control, housed in the small net of Radoslaw Majecki (0-1, 11e). Touched, Brest did not flow and even took the game on his own. Mair on a favorable counter, Hakon Haraldsson picked up the ball at Brendan Chardonnet and went alone to break (0-2, 26e).
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It was necessary to extinguish the fervor to Francis Le Blé, and the men of Eric Roy were worthy of their audience. Kamory Doumbia took advantage of a shield countered by Ludovic Ajorque to restart the suspense (1-2, 34e). In difficulty to keep the ball, the LOSC saw Mama Baldé narrowly miss the skylight (41e) then touch the bar (43e). Before Julien Le Cardinal misses the equalization of a daring acrobatic return (45e+4).
The Bretons did not let the momentum go on the return from the locker room, equalizing thanks to Doumbia, again, of a clear strike at the entrance to the surface (51e2-2). Despite the valiant efforts of Giroud in pivot, it was on a corner that the light returned to the north. Nathan Ngoy gave the head for Ngal’Ayel Mukau, opportunistic scorer (66e2-3). First refused for a possible outing of the ball on the center of Haraldsson before returning within the limits of the field, the goal was finally validated to the Dam of the Brestois, who filed a technical reserve after a long confusion.
But it took even more to make the pedals lose the Finistériens. Julien Le Cardinal, defender, in turn equalized after a sequence worthy of a pure center-forward, a chest control then a half-volley of the right (75e3-3). In a disheveled end of the match, Ayyoub Bouaddi had the best opportunity, lonely 8 meters from the Brest cages. The young Entrant Lille shot a happy major to block the ball with his knees (90e+3). Frustrating departure for Bruno Genesio players in this Ligue 1 season.
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