Ruffier qualified Greens
The 41st game of the season has been long Stéphanois smiling men to Christophe Galtier. For the third time this season in the Coupe de France, the Greens needed Tuesday in Boulogne-sur-Mer (N), the extension, but also penalties to rule the Yankees on penalties (1- 1, 4, Table 3) with a decisive Stéphane Ruffier. ASSE include the last four for the first time since 1993.
Thirty-three years that the people stéphanois the watches. ASSE, although his last appearance at this stage of the competition remains a bad memory (defeat against PSG, 2-2, 6 Table 5, note), has not tasted the delights of a Cup final of France since 1982. And if the conquest of the League Cup in 2013 was somewhat appease the thirst for trophies of the Greens, the passion for the "Old Lady" kept peeking through a semi-final in 1993 (losing to Nantes 0-1) remains intact in the Drill. Especially when, as is the case of the team of Christophe Galtier since the beginning of the new year (one win, four draws and three defeats), the head of the championship does not provide (more) satisfactions the first part of the season.
We really wanted to play this semi-final. We are on a more delicate series championship, but this win will do us good
Benjamin Corgnet (midfielder ASSE)
Facing the fifth National, conversely one defeat in 2015 came slow, residents in Ligue 1 have every reason to want to make a difference immediately. And a shot countered Yohan Mollo, immediately in action, Romain Hamouma who loses in the surface facing Jody Viviani, former Saint-Etienne, the duel could "kill" input this quarter-final (5th) . It does not take long for Unleashed 13 000 spectators a Liberation Stadium sold out. And to trust the team of Stéphane Le Mignan certainly dominated the possession but up tactically and defensively. As to reduce his opponent to a minimum the number of opportunities that recurring difficulties in controlling Etienne last gesture lately fail to materialize. A picture of a Benjamin Corgnet whose whim still find Viviani (23rd), before his curling shot escapes the frame (44th). It is both too little to Saint-Etienne and already a lot on the side of Boulogne, where time flows in favor of the premises.
Stéphane Ruffier has perhaps not been any stop to perform, the figures are enough to flatter the confidence of Boulogne, authors of 25 of their 33 goals in the second half, including 12 in the last quarter of an hour. And recovery, to the benefit of Northerners, tends to confirm this trend. The speed and quickness local now undermine the defense of the Greens, where Mustapha Bayal Sall, sanctioned the first yellow card (50th), suddenly appears very lonely bailing before a Ruffier forced to put into action. A first intervention in Boulogne-foot (68th), before the two against one against Maritimes, ever more pressing, is poorly negotiated by Xavier Mercier (75th). International unfortunate porter for this event in front of Julien Anthony M. Begue Fautrel illegal judge to whistle a penalty imagination that transforms Anthony Soubervie (1-0, 80th). Frustration is a time keeper evacuated in the aftermath of Corgnet, author of the equalizer whim and his first goal of the season on the free-kick Mollo (1-1, 84th). Inevitable, the extension is offered Viviani and Ruffier, both decisive. As a prelude to a session of shots, the last bulwark Etienne out winner, author of the judgment of the qualification (Table 4 to 3).
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