Ligue 1 – 26th day: Monaco scuttled against Reims (1-2)

What happened to Monaco? Dominating and in the lead until the 85th minute, ASM failed to score the break goal and completely missed their end of the match against Reims, this Sunday at Louis-II (1-2). Despite a new goal from Ben Yedder, the Rocher club, which finished at ten after Jean Lucas’ red card, lost after additional time to a goal by Nathanaël Mbuku and carried out a very bad operation in the race to Europe. Despite the absence of many senior players, the Rémois strike a blow and take another step towards maintaining.

Everything had however started well for the men of Philippe Clement, dominating from the start of the match and who insisted a lot on the right side. It was no coincidence that it was Vanderson who delivered a perfect cross to Gelson Martins’ winning header. But the flag rose to signal a slight offside from the Portuguese (6th). Asphyxiated for twenty minutes, the Rémois exploited the counterattacks better afterwards and could have opened the scoring, but Mitchell van Bergen stumbled on Alexander Nübel (31st) and Fraser Hornby touched the bar (48th).

Jean Lucas ruined everything

It was obviously Ben Yedder who found the fault. Served in the area by a sublime exterior from the foot of Diop, the French international scored his 15th goal of the season to regain the lead in the scoring charts (1-0, 55th).

Monaco then thought they had done the hardest part. For a long time, we seemed closer to 2-0 than an equalizer. Because Ben Yedder hit the post on a volley, before a header from Disasi in the six meters captured by Rajkovic (58th and 76th). Two big chances before the last ten totally irrational minutes symbolized by Lucas, author of a very good match but who ruined everything.

The Brazilian first missed a superb opportunity alone in front of Rajkovic by hitting above while Ben Yedder was alone (81st). Undoubtedly frustrated, the Monegasque midfielder then received two yellow cards synonymous with exclusion (86th and 88th). Meanwhile, Reims had managed to equalize on a set piece and a header… from Kevin Volland against his camp (1-1, 85th). This crazy scenario continued until the last minute with a goal from Mbuku, well served by Arbër Zeneli (1-2, 90th+3). What regrets for the ASM, which signs a third match in a row without a win against a team in the second part of the classification, after a totally crazy end to the match.