France
Ligue De Football Des-Hauts-De-France
Coupe De La Ligue Seniors Final
Monday 10th June 2019
Kick Off 17.30 Actual 17.33
Athletic Club Amiens II 2 Union Sportive Choisy-Au-Bac 3, attendance 361
25’ 0-1
27’ 1-1
57’ 1-2
79’ 2-2 (pen)
87’ 2-3
@ Stade Moulonguet
122 Rue Louis Thuillier
(entrance via Boulevard De Saint-Quentin)
80000 Amiens
€5 Admission
No Programme
As far as regular season matches are concerned, this wraps things up for me for 2018/19. I had started the season with a Coupe De France match at Jeunesse Sportive Cambron back on 17th June and was rounding off the season just 35 miles south east of there, in the town of Amiens. The real added bonus of this match was that it was being played at Stade Moulonguet, which has hosted matches in the French League, as high as Ligue 2, when it was home to Amiens Sporting Club before they moved to their new ground, Stade de la Licorne, back in 1999.
Athletic Club Amiens II had finished in sixth place in Seniors Regional 2B, whilst Choisy-Au-Bac had finished second from bottom in Seniors Regional 1A, so the game was evenly balanced. Choisy-Au-Bac took the lead somewhat against the run of play, but their lead only lasted for a couple of minutes. It remained level until just short of the hour mark. Despite having a player stretchered off a few minutes earlier, Choisy-Au-Bac responded well and a brilliant individual run, when beating two defenders, saw a shot into the far corner of the net to put them 1-2 up. It looked like they would hold out for the win, but a very harsh looking penalty decision saw them concede an equaliser eleven minutes from time and it looked like we would be heading to extra time. With just three minutes left, a speculative shot from the edge of the 18 yard box was deflected wide of the ‘keeper and what had been a disappointing season for Choisy-Au-Bac had at least finished on a high note as they nicked a 2-3 win.
We had arrived at Folkestone this morning to once again find Eurotunnel running late, this time, according to a member of staff, due to an inspection of the track, as something had fallen off a train earlier in the morning and a check had to be made to ensure it wasn’t causing an obstruction. Despite our 12.20 booking being re-timed to 12.40, we were actually still loaded onto the 12.20 train, but it departed nine minutes late. With the match kicking off at 17.30, due to it being yet another Bank Holiday in France, it meant we were able to book the 22.20 return crossing. Having checked in at 21.25, we were offered the earlier 21.50 instead (would have cost £7 more if we had actually booked for this, but no extra charge tonight) which left a minute early and rounded off a good day out.
