Despite their victory against Amiens, ASSE will have to go through the playoffs to hope to get back to Ligue 1. However, a crazy sequence shows that, from the side of the Greens, for a few seconds, it was thought that Bastia had snatched a draw against Le Mans and that Saint-Étienne was once again in second place.
It’s a little story that will make the Green People smile if AS Saint-Étienne manages to return to Ligue 1, but otherwise could become traumatic. Saturday night, in a packed Geoffroy-Guichard stadium counting on Bastia to hold Le Mans to a draw, Zuriko Davitashvili and his teammates did their job by crushing Amiens (5-0). But, in the 87th minute of the match, a clamor rose in all the stands, and the Georgian international of the Greens turned to the bench and made a gesture of joy. Overall, as some fans have admitted, a rumor came from everywhere, and especially from nowhere, that Bastia had just equalized. A Corsican goal that put ASSE in second place in the standings, and therefore in position to be promoted directly to Ligue 1. A moment captured and commented on live on Beinsports 3.
A phantom goal in Corsica, it’s on fire in Saint-Etienne
Indeed, the journalists of the sports channel heard that the Cauldron was erupting, and they also saw Zuriko Davitashvili getting excited for no apparent reason. This surprised them, as they clearly had no information about this true-false goal by SC Bastia. “The crowd is happy here (silence) So they have a better connection than us apparently, or is it a way to keep hope alive among the Stéphanois. To our knowledge, it’s still 1-0 for Le Mans and no particular reason to celebrate for AS Saint-Étienne, despite the encouragement from Zuriko Davitashvili. Rumors spread and the whole stadium rose as one man. People turned around to see the score,” our colleagues remarked. Two days later, no one knows yet how all this was made possible, and how Zuriko Davitashvili was informed of a false Bastia equalizer.
