Monaco wins the final against Clermont

Before the grand final of the Coupe de France between Nantes and Toulouse this Saturday evening, the Stade de France hosted another final, that of the Coupe Gambardella, the equivalent of the national cup for young people (U-19) between Clermont and Monaco . During the semi-finals, the Auvergnats disposed of young Rennais on penalties (2-2, 5-4 on pens). For their part, the Monegasques won on the lawn of Pau (0-2). After several first minutes to the advantage of the players of the Rock, Bouabre recovered a hazardous recovery from Clermontois and transmitted to Tincres but it was the post that stopped the attempt of the Monegasque striker (4th).

While Monaco multiplied the chances in front of the opposing goal through Tincres, who found the fault but the referee signaled an offside position for Sinate before the action (6th), then the Monegasque side made shine Ramousse (8th). While Bouabre narrowly missed the skylight of the opposing goalkeeper (13th), Clermont finally opened the scoring, completely against the course of the game. Pages came to put his body in opposition to push the ball into the back of the net on a corner kick struck by Cantero ( 15th, 1-0). Despite this hard blow, the Monegasques immediately went back to attacking to catch up. And on a new movement of high quality, Tincres found Benama who equalized with the help of the crossbar (22nd, 1-1).

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The Monegasques continued to put considerable pressure on the Clermont defense and Tincres came to mystify the entire Auvergnats rearguard with a devastating slalom to reverse the situation (23rd, 2-1). The Clermontois completely lost control when the first scorer of this meeting came to mow down Michal in his area. The referee did not flinch and whistled the penalty. Fortunately for the suspense, Ramousse stopped Benama’s attempt to keep his team alive (34th). After this big heat stroke, the pace of the game dropped drastically. Upon returning from the locker room, after a very well placed but badly negotiated free kick by Clermont (50th), Bouabre came to make the break for Monaco (57th, 3-1).

But only a few minutes later, the Clermontois revived the end of the meeting thanks to the reduction of the score of Chastang after a free kick from Cantero badly returned by the Monegasque defense (65th, 3-2). While the two coaches made several changes, the meeting fell into a false rhythm. After an error by Ramousse, Cabral came to seal the victory for Monaco by scoring in the empty goal (81st, 4-2). This new achievement killed the last offensive inclinations of Clermont who could no longer project himself forward. Thanks to this great victory, the Monegasques win the 5th Gambardella Cup in their history. Only Auxerre does better with 7 titles in the competition.