Abdoulaye Touré's 96th minute Penalty kept Le Havre AC's top status dramatic after beating 10-man RC Strasbourg as 3-2 in the Stade de la Meinau.
Knowing that only a victory and Nice and Lille, who would not win both, would give them a first taste of the UEFA Champions League (UCL), the opening cure of Strasbourg did not go as hoped.
Instead, it was le Havre-Die was involved in their own last daily fight against automatic relegation that looked more likely to break the impasse.
Sékou Mara soon let the ball roll for the hosts while forced a good save from Mathieu Gorgelin. However, it became even better for the men of Liam Rosenior after 20 minutes when Captain Andrey Santos led a good example. The Brazilian professional Strasbourg fired with a sublime attack from the back post.
Strasbourg Vier Santos' OpenFrederick Florin / AFP
In response, only a fantastic diving saving prevented from his nearby pole of Petrović that the header of Issa Soumaré recovered the header of the visitors.
Le Havre got a helping hand in their efforts to equalize before the break. Valentín Barco's carefree handball in the box enabled not to make a mistake from the penalty spot while he confidently turns things in the corner to deliver things.
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It took only eight minutes in the second half of Strasbourg to restore their lead, as in the reverse fixture of December, Sebastian Nanasi got his name again on the score sheet with another sublime attack.
It seemed that Le Havre had again leveled in the 66th minute after the attempt by Petrović had channeled that Yassine Kechta had channeled, allowing Koka to go home. However, the Chelsea leenlee was relieved when VAR was considered that the replacement was offside in the structure.
However, that grateful gaze was quickly wiped out of Petrović's face four minutes later, while Josué Casimir the delivery house of Issa Soumaré for the Volleys of Issa Soumaré.
Koka then defeated Petrović, but not the bar in the 82nd minute, but that turned out not to be the last attempt of the visitors.
With the poorly timed challenge of Andrew Omobamidele in the area, Touré could be the pressure sentence calm to lift his side unbelieving from the relegation play-off position at the expense of Reims.
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In the meantime, since 2019, Le Racing has missed a first European campaign in a heartbreaking way.