With the team's first victory, the Touluose players were excited and before the next one they would have more time to prepare and rest as they were still at the beginning of the transfer season
The next game would be against Saint-Etienne, a team that was formerly considered the greatest team in France because they had already won the French championship 10 years ago. forgotten was still a stronger team than Touluose in attack and in teamwork a team played in Formation with 3 players in attack
But this time Coach Alain decided to put Usman to play first and the team was ready like this
GK Ahamada 30
CB Firmin 15 Zébina 11 RB Ninkov 24 LB M'Bengue 12
DMF Capoue 29 CMF Sissoko 22 Didot 8 C RMF Regattin 17
LMF Tabanou 10 CF Usman 2
GK Tohann Pelé SB Abdennour 23 SB Aurier 19 CMF Sirieix 14 AMF Cioccolina 5 RMF Braaten 25 WF Braaten 10 CF Rivière 9
After explaining how the team was going to play, he started talking about the opposing team and its formation.
GK Ruffier
CB Mignot and Sall RB Brison LB Clerc
DMF Perrin CMF Clement 22 Lemoine
WF Gradel CF Brandao RF Saiko
The Touluose stadium was very excited on that day it was a game of 7th vs 8th place and they started the game trying to advance with low passes until the ball reached Regattin who saw Usman running alone into the area and made a launch for air
Usman runs to get the ball but the goalkeeper comes out of the goal and catches the ball making possession of the ball stay with the Saint team who simply tries to control the game ball until Lemoire touches the wrong ball and stops at the foot of Siriex who touches Usman who advances towards the goal but is blocked by the defenders and loses the ball
Following the game, he keeps the ball and tries to keep attacking but it's not that dangerous until Usman loses the ball to Lemoire and fights to get it Lemoire gets frustrated for losing the ball in front of his area and trips Usman doing so the free kick 25 m away from the goal
Who hits and Didot who sends the ball high in the left corner of the goalkeeper but the goalkeeper launches it and sends it out, thus giving a corner to the Touluose team who hit but do not pose danger to the Saint's goal
The game continues with Touluose risking surprising moves with Usman risking shots from outside the area but the goalkeeper defended all the shots so far as none of them had enough strength to make him worry
Toluose's games were all based on Usman getting close to the goal and finishing but the game was coming at the end of the first half and the score was still 0 x 0 because the Saint's goalkeeper was a strong rival against Usman because all his shots in the goal so far the goalkeeper has managed to save
By the end of the first half Usman was getting tired and the defense was managing to keep up as all of their plays were blocked by the defenders
At the beginning of the second half, Saint starts the game slowly as it loses the ball easily and Toulouse uses this opportunity to advance but it does not cause enough danger and after losing the ball, the Saint's attack begins with defender Mignet leading the ball from his area atpe after the midfield and playing on the left side of the field but the attack also comes to nothing
Coming in the 56th minute after the free kick after Usman offside the ball and header by Didot to Regattin , Regattin dominates spins with the ball and passes to Usman
Usman receives it dribbles the two defenders in front leads the ball to the entrance of the area the goalkeeper comes out to receive it Usman kicks it in the corner next to the goalkeeper and the ball goes in is GOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL!!!!! it's his first, he scores his first goal in his 4th game for Toluose securing victory against Saint
The game returns with the Saint leaving and they start to get nervous and anxious when they are attacking which leads him to miss the passes and receive a counterattack on his left side with Regattin advancing and crossing into the area for Sissoko to head but the ball goes straight out
At 65 minutes Usman leaves for Riviére to enter the team and with that the Toluose team starts to get more defensive while the Saint team starts to attack Intensively
Does Saint's team start to attack on the wing with the launch of high balls while Touluose starts to work more on the low ball to hold the time until at 78 min Saint has its first Substitution with the entry of Aubamayeng and the departure of Pallen?
At 83 min, Touluose had a wonderful chance to score with a high throw by Sissoko into the area for Riviére who advanced behind the defender's back but he handed the ball to the goalkeeper with a weak shot trying not to miss the goal
In the 89th minute with Saint's attack, the defender misses Aubamayeng at 18 minutes from the goal meanwhile the coach removes Regattin and puts Sirieix who beats the gap it's Gradel but the ball goes away from the goal
And in addition, Saint's team persistently continued to attack while Touluose always tried to gain time driving the ball
And the game ends Toulouse 1 x 0 Saint
Kicks 5 ( 4 ) x 6 ( 2 )
Free Kicks 2x4
Corner Kicks 1 x 1
Fouls 4x2
Possession 48% x 52%
Usman for having scored the winning goal becomes the hero of the game becoming the Mvp the best player on the field
But this time Usman was smiling for doing the job a striker has to score 1 goal directly
usman
Games 4
Goals 1
Assistance 1
He was so happy that day that he called his family to talk about the 1st goal he scored since his debut in his professional career they stayed talking for 2 hours that day and the next day Usman slept late missing practically the morning practice was over getting scolded by Professor Alain and his teammates laughed at him
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