An enlightenment. A stroke of genius. Or the instinct of the moment, call it as you want. The consequence remains the same: FC Metz will find the Elite Thanks to its success (3-1 AP, 1-1 on the outward journey), only a year after leaving it.
One of the Lorraine heroes is called Gauthier eh. He is his team’s last scorer. The one that we will remember before the others because he is the one who delivered a whole club with an anthology lob who came to the best moments.
There are seven minutes to play. Metz is ahead and still has to hold on to validate his return to Ligue 1.. His defense emerges and the native of Thionville, who returned home to raise the flagship club of the region, inherits the ball just behind the midline. The continuation belongs to the legend.
“I thought we were going to be able to recover it, I saw the goalkeeper really far from his goal,” said the former Auxerrois at the Dazn microphone. And I really felt to put it between him and the goal. Sometimes we are not well physically but we can … At the end, I could no longer run, I had cramps to adductors, calves. But it was still necessary to last six minutes. ”
Metz coach Stéphane Le Mignan later declared that the victory and the rise in L1 of his team was “an evening that will remain engraved in memories”. Except for Reims, who experienced two black evenings in a few days, with The French Cup final lost to PSG.
