Can Metz avoid relegation to Ligue 2 against PSG? “Caen has already done it twice”

“Metz remains on two consecutive victories, it will help them, entrusts us Ronny Rodelin, the current striker of Servette Geneva and accustomed to the struggles for the maintenance in L1 when he evolved in Caen then Guingamp. Knowing Frédéric Antonetti, he will fight until the end. On a match, everything is really possible.” “Caen has already done it twice“, recalls Romain Genevois, the former weed defender.

And for good reason: PSG started strong and Adrien Rabiot opened the scoring in the thirteenth minute. In the second half, the waves follow one another again on the goal of Rémy Vercoutre. Syam Ben Youssef saves a lob from Edinson Cavani on the line and Romain Genevois clears a hot ball a few minutes later. “If we concede a second goal, it’s over“, recognizes the former Haitian international defender, aligned at the heart of a five-man defense that evening.

20 minutes from the end of the 38th day, Vincent Le Goff offers the equalizer in Lorient against Bordeaux (1-1). Caen finds itself a barrage. “When we learn it, we say to ourselves that we absolutely have to score. On the pitch, I don’t remember a drop in intensity from PSG at that time. We therefore try to build our game as much as possible and we keep our cool. Believing in it until the end really helped us“, says Ronny Rodelin, hero of this end of the match.

“In the first half, we suffered a lot, it happened in all directions“, recalls Ronny Rodelin. “We had the feeling that they wanted to fold the entry matchconfirms Romain Genevois. It was still Paris, a team capable of putting four even while walking“But after the break, Caen suffers”fewer waves“.”In the second half, I thought we were a little calmer. We felt that they did not want to take bad shots. Sometimes they played ball. ” Malherbe hangs another draw against Paris (0-0) and escapes again in extremis (note: in front of Toulouse). Four years later, Metz would sign with both hands for a similar outcome.