Back on the matches of the weekend in D2, including the victory of Nancy against Grenoble, the first points left on the road this season by the GF38. A defeat that leads to a tightening ranking in the top group B. FC Metz retains its advantage at the top of Group A, despite a match hanging against Stade Brest.


Group A - Metz is doing well in Brest


FC Metz remains in the lead after their victory (2-3) on the Brest lawn. A meeting where the Bretonnes were close to achieving a winning return after being led by two goals at the break. From the start of the match, Selen Altunkulak found the net (3rd) on a shot that lodged in the skylight. At the end of the first period, Valérie Sanderson added the second goal Metz of the day (39th), a center Justine Rougemont.


This two-goal advantage will then melt when the locker room returns. It was first Anaïs Ribeyra who reduced the gap in the 52nd minute before Melanie Blanchard equalized at the start of the last quarter of an hour. A return that could have allowed the Finistère players to get a new positive result after their first win, two weeks ago against Le Mans. But in stoppage time, FC Metz won the three points, a goal by Justine Rougemont who prolongs a ball Ipek Kaya (90 + 4).


This success allows the Messines to retain their advantage over Saint-Malo who also won against Angers. The Angevines, nice surprise of this beginning of season, lost (3-1) on the lawn of the Marville stadium. The players of the White Cross who had managed to open the score in the 22nd minute by Agnès Nkada, a first goal to which the Falklands responded twice before the break.


Danielle Tolmais first equalized in the 37th minute on penalty, before Oceane Ringenbach gave the advantage to Saint-Malo, five minutes later (42). Shortly after the hour of play, Romane Enguehard amplifies the advantage in favor of Saint-Malo (64th). A success that allows the Breton players to stay in the rhythm of Metz, while Angers sees return Arras and La Roche-sur-Yon, two teams that have won this weekend.


Arras and La Roche recover from height


Arras has been able to count on a new double of Mamy Ndiaye, the Senegalese forward center who has just chained five goals in the last three games, and allows the North to validate another victory (2-0) against Le Mans. La Roche-sur-Yon was imposed (1-2) on the lawn of VGA Saint-Maur. A result that emerged at the end of the match, after the opener of Laurie Teinturier for Saint-Maur, against his former club since she played in the Vendée last season.


At the end of the match, Claire Guillard (82) and Jessica Marchadié (89) scored for the Yonnaises and tipped the meeting in favor of the ESOF. Three points that allow La Roche temporarily occupy the third place, equal points with Arras.


Two other teams managed to win this weekend, Rouen and Stade de Reims, which take points after losing at home on the last day. Rouen took the best against Lorient (3-1) in a match where the players were able to make the first time the break after the goals of Fanny Gosseye (20th) and Sylia Koui (34th) in the first half.


After the break, Lorient will get a penalty from a hand in the box, but Amandine Sevin's shot is beaten by Rouen's goalkeeper Hillary Damman (69). It is on another set kick that Lorient will eventually narrow the gap. A free-kick at the edge of the Normandy area and hit by Marine Macé who sends the ball to the bottom of the nets (73). At the end of the match, Rouen added a third goal by Grace Yango, at the conclusion of a cons, on a service by Fanny Gosseye (90 + 1).


Reims side, the players of Amandine Miquel won against FF Issy (3-0), thanks to a double Melissa Gomes, author of the opener in the third minute. She concluded the mark late in the game (87th) after delivering the decisive pass on the second goal scored by Margaux Dautun (69th).Group B - Grenoble drops its first points in Nancy


Sensation this weekend in group B with the victory of Nancy against Grenoble. The GF38 had signed an ideal start to the season with six wins in as many outings, which allowed the players of Isère to stand out in the lead. AS Nancy-Lorraine, a team that impressed on the start of the season with the best attack of this first part of the championship, and which is now the first training to drop Grenoble, an already impressive honor roll for the promoted Lorraine.


Best scorer of the championship, Marlyse Ngo Ndoumbouk added a new unit to his counter by scoring the first goal Nancy (27th), his fourteenth in seven days. On the action, she took advantage of a pass poorly adjusted in the Grenoble camp, a ball that she seized to go wrong Cindy Perrault.


Nancy who will manage to ensure its success in the last quarter of an hour, thanks to a goal from Maëlys Goumeziane (77th). Entered in the second half, the 17-year-old scored her first goal in D2, on an action where she managed to play with two defenders at the left-half center line before catching Olivia Mbala's speed and finishing with a shot uncrossed right foot.


A remarkable goal and a victory (2-0) for Nancy who restarted the debates in Group B, since this defeat of Grenoble comes as all the pursuers of the GF38, Nancy included, have won this weekend.


A painting top that is tightening


This is notably the case of Saint-Étienne who won the score of 4-0 against Montauban. Candice Gherbi scored twice (including a penalty), while it was Kelly Gago who opened the scoring (22) before serving Marine Cochelin on the fourth goal of Etienne (88th). The Vertes coming back to two points of Grenoble as well as Yzeure and Dijon, while Nancy is now at three lengths of the GF38.


Yzeure also won 4-0 against Nîmes. Sarah Chalabi opened the scoring in the first half, before the Auvergne players took off after the break. Match also rich goal on the side of Aurillac, where the FC2A lost 5-2 against Dijon. For his first tenure with Aurillac-Arpajon, Leila Maknoun opened the scoring in the 23rd minute.


A goal that Fatoumata Baldé will respond with a hat-trick (40th, 47th and 58th) in favor of Dijon, a definitive payout despite the goal of Yasmine Boufaroua (68th) for Aurillac-Arpajon. Laura Bouillot allows the Burgundians to take off (72), before the fifth goal of Dijon, scored against-his-camp by a player FC2A (76). Aurillac, still the red lantern of Group B, at the end of a match where the players of Cantal have scored as many goals as in their first six games, an aspect that may be seen as encouraging for the rest of the season .


Dijon who scored the only win outside the weekend in Group B, while Toulouse won at home 5-0 against Ambilly, including a doubling of Chloé Mouly in the second half . Marine Garcia had scored the first goal of the Violettes late in the first period (40th). ESAP Metz also won at home against Vendenheim (2-0) with two goals scored from the lead on the corner by Halima Talbi (24th) and Marie Papaix (69th) respectively.