On the fourth day of D1, Paris FC won on the field of Bondoufle against Rodez on the score of four goals to zero (4-0). A broad victory that reflects the gap between the two teams on this match and allows Paris FC to forget the road exit last weekend against OL.


Paris FC have rested at home this Sunday. First with the three points, a comfortable victory, but above all a result that rewards the quality of play deployed by players in the Paris region. A performance all the more striking as Paris FC faced a team Rodez quickly struggling, and has regularly drawn physically over the course of ninety minutes.


The head under the water


For Rodez, this trip is also part of a complicated start to the season where the Rafettes compete against the heavyweights of the D1 from the first days. After Lyon and PSG, this trip in the Essonne precedes the reception of Montpellier next week, a complicated sequence to start the season.


After the first point against Guingamp last week, Gregory Mleko had decided to start Gloria Mabomba in the right lane, she who scored the tying goal late in the game. But like most of her teammates, she was mostly monopolized by defensive tasks in the first period, so much the domination of the women of Paris was flagrant in the first act.


The opening of the score came from the seventh minute for Paris FC. Annaïg Butel delivers a long aerial balloon in the axis to Gaëtane Thiney, part in the interval between two Ruthenian defenders. Lonely in the box, the captain of Paris FC places a header, on which Julie Niphon touches the ball but only manages to slow down his race and the leather ends well at the bottom of the nets (7th).


Paris FC played its game


In the minutes that follow, the Parisian domination is accentuated with some opportunities, but especially faults that are increasing on the side of the players of the RAF, regularly behind their defensive interventions. Opposite, Paris FC seems to recite his scales, game patterns repeated several times to hit the mark. In the 16th minute, Théa Greboval first found Clara Matéo in the box, whose header went close to Rodez's goal.


Shortly before the half hour of the game, we find a similar game sequence with Camille Catala and Théa Greboval who regularly combines left side. Faced with Gloria Mabomba, who came in support of Anne-Marie Banuta, Théa Greboval manages to center and find Clara Matéo's head again. This time, she finds the net on an action where Julie Niphon did not manage to intercept the ball (26th).


A few minutes later, we find the connection Butel-Thiney with a ball coming from behind and this time, the ball is deflected at the last moment on the Thiney's shot and the ball ends its race flush with the left post ( 35th). Spaces are numerous for the players of Paris FC and Théa Greboval is close to adding a third goal before the break. Lea Declercq finds Thiney launched in the right lane, with time to adjust a center that finds Greboval's head at the far post. A cross attempt that hits the left pole of Rodez (41).


A first complicated period for Rodez whose first shot only occurs in the 42nd minute by Flavie Lemaître, with an attempt that passes to the right of the frame.


An awakening rather than a revolt


After the break, Rodez seems better disposed and above all able to project himself in numbers. On several occasions, the Ruthenoises were able to carry the danger in the opposite camp, but sometimes with a lack of lucidity in the choices to make once arrived in the last thirty opposing meters.


The second period is therefore more balanced, as Paris FC continues to gain opportunities. Close-up strikes approaching the frame by Théa Greboval (51st), Ami Otaki (56th) or Gaëtane Thiney in the 65th minute. A final action initiated by the captain of Paris FC, with a relay Camille Catala, and illustrates the difficulties of the RAF to keep pace with this match.


The entrances of Marina Makanza and Anissa Lahmari do not help anything with Lahmari who regularly manages to sneak into the right side defense. In the last quarter of an hour, the gap on the scoreboard is growing. It is first Camille Catala who adds a third goal in the 78th minute. A ball from Thiney to Catala in the left side, and the attacker of Paris FC places a shot on which Julie Niphon misses his intervention and must bow again.

Thiney at the conclusion


At the end of the match, the fourth goal from Paris is signed Gaëtane Thiney, following an action initiated right side. Anissa Lahmari manages to find Camille Catala in the box, which puts a shot on goal pushed by Julie Niphon. The ball remained in play, returns to the feet of Gaëtane Thiney who can this time send it to the goal Ruthenian (87th). A wide success that could have even gained momentum two minutes later on a recovery of Marina Makanza saved on her line by a defender of RAF (89th).


With this victory (4-0), the Paris FC is reassured in more than one way, after a controlled performance and has highlighted the quality of the collective Ile-de-France. As for Rodez, the start of the season under pressure continues, waiting for more "revealing" matches for the Aveyronnaises in the coming weeks.


The post-match reactions:

Grégory Mleko (Rodez, coach): "You had to be a little more present in the duels"

Clara Matéo (Paris FC): "We are getting better at finding the gaps"

Pascal Gouzenes (Paris FC, coach): "We had to bounce back"



Match sheet


Sunday 1st October 2017, 13h00 - Bondoufle (Robert-Bobin Stadium) - D1 - 4th day.


Paris FC - Rodez Aveyron Football: 4-0 (2-0)


Referee: Hélène Burban

Goals: Gaëtane Thiney (7th and 87th), Clara Matéo (26th) and Camille Catala (78th)

Warnings: Inès Jaurena (33) for Paris FC; Élise Bonet (14th) for Rodez



The teams :


Paris FC: 1-C. Deville - 5-E. From Almeida, 10-A. Butel, 22-E. Cascarino, 19-T. Greboval, 26-L. Declercq (14-A Lahmari 67e), 8-I. Jaurena (29th Vaisse 82nd), 17-G. Thiney (cap.), 28-C. Catala, 11-C. Matéo, 13-A. Otaki (7-Mr Makanza 67e)

Coach: Pascal Gouzenes


Rodez AF: 1-J. Niphon, 11-AM. Banuta, 4-R. Infante, 2-M. Guitard (cap.) 3-F. Hoarau, 15-O. Saunier, 6-E. Bonet (8-C, Austry 61e), 21-G. Mabomba (7-Mr De Sousa 79e), 10-L. Cance, 23-J. Peruzzetto, 9-F. Lemaitre (20-C. Noiran 61st).

Coach: Grégory Mleko