At the Stade de France, the purple team crushed Nantes 5-1 to make history and win the trophy. The Chilean national team played well and provided an assist. He already has a title with 17 games played in European football.
gabriel suazo He played his 17th match this Saturday with the Toulouse jersey and already has a trophy. Perhaps, deep in his heart, he wasn’t planning to be champions any time soon, let alone in a competition where PSG dominate virtually everything domestically. The concrete thing is that the national team won their first trophy in their fledgling career in Europe. His club beat Nantes 5-1, to win the Coupe de France in its 2022-2023 edition.
The emblematic Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, was the scene of a clash between traditional clubs. President Emmanuel Macron himself attended the game, watching it from the preferential stand. The surprise was that it was not in the calculations or the bets that the evolution of the game had been so massively favorable to the violets. Even the most optimistic fan couldn’t imagine being 4-0 after half an hour.
Generally, endgames tend to be tighter, tighter, where nothing is given. But Nantes was guilty of a strange naivety. And Toulouse smelled it and took advantage of each approach to turn it into a goal. Suazo started at left-back and put in a decent performance. Given the course of the meeting, he was not a permanent offensive agent. However, he kept his strip well and provided an assist when he found himself with some breathing room.
Just four minutes passed and defender Logan Costa opened the account with a header. First shot of the team led by Philippe Montanier. The defender completed his brace after 10 minutes, with another header from a free kick. Every license from the yellows was captured and used by the violets, who played as white. Nantes had the ball with the disadvantage, while the winning team fell back. In this direction, the Chilean winger remained orderly in his post. He even saved his team at 12 minutes, when he pushed a ball over the goal line.
The 3-0 arrived at the 23 ‘, in an action that had Gabriel Suazo as coach. With space in front, the old colo colo he sends a superb deep ball in the direction of Thijs Dallinga and the Dutch striker finishes with class before the departure of goalkeeper Lafont. Literally, every Toulouse shot on goal resulted in a goal. But it didn’t stay that way. At 31′, the fourth arrives, still from Dallinga, who catches a bad rebound from Lafont.
An unusual difference for a definition of this type. For the third time in the history of the competition, four goals were scored before the break. With this panorama, the second part was almost for decoration.
Indeed, Toulouse chose to nurse their comfortable advantage and Nantes handled the ball and looked for a more decent drop. In the last quarter of an hour, they found the advantage thanks to a penalty. Ludovic Blas finishes strong and puts the discount.
As TéFéCé didn’t want any kind of surprise, they broke the rival’s illusion with the fifth goal. At 79′, after a rebound from a free kick, Zakaria Aboukhlal shoots hard and hits the goalkeeper with the “little hand”. The game is over. The title goes to Toulouse.
A distinction must be made with regard to the balance sheet of the club. For the representatives of the city, this is the second title. But for Toulouse FC it is the first. If there was another Toulouse before the current one, whose origin dates back to 1937, the history of the current institution dates back to 1970. For the same reason, the title of Coupe de France 1957 belongs to this old distribution. The trophy obtained this Saturday is the first for the team in this competition.
Especially, Gabriel Suazo becomes the first Chilean footballer to win the Coupe de France. Before, other nationals had reached the final (like Mauricio Isla in Marseille and Guillermo Maripán in Monaco, for example), even if they didn’t make it. The Colocolino youth team enters the exclusive group and reduces Creoles to become champions of the Gallic country. The first were Ignacio Prieto and Alberto Fouillioux, winners of Ligue 2 with Lille, in 1974. Pablo Contreras later won two trophies with Monaco: the 1999-2000 Ligue 1 and the 2000 Super Cup. the 2011 – League 2012 edition with Montpellier.
In addition, Toulouse gets tickets for the next Europa League, a continental showcase for a team that is making history. And among them, one from Chile.
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