00:00Off we go then, good afternoon and welcome to the Stade de la Moustoire where Lorient begin the new year looking to turn a steady run of results into real breathing space in the table, while Mets arrive knowing every point from here on in, Paris' survival consequences.
00:20My name is Angus Rode, your matchday commentator from the very orange Stade de la Moustoire where these two sides who came up from Ligue 2 last season are hoping to be able to stay in Ligue 1 for the season coming up. Lorient doing a slightly better job at the moment than their visitors.
00:38Theo de Brice, Abagel, teasing little boy who could get onto it, but the Senegalese attacker unable to get there.
01:02...to the last 32, which will come up next weekend. Lorient on the attack once more, Opaolo Pagis. Abagel, Abagel, surely double save from Jonathan Fe...
01:21...well Pagis with a little ball through, lovely cut back. All of a sudden, Makenko on his own. The shot came in and then right in front, Simano.
01:35He's in a team where he will get plenty of practice, though. This, though, is L'Oreal coming forward again. That's a lovely ball in. Great piece of defending to stop Simano.
01:44Well, it was a good run by the centre forward.
01:47Excuse me, I'm weird. A goal kick. Put my eyes back in properly. Oh, Dominguez lost the ball. And all of a sudden, now there's a chance. Oh! Off the post from Pagis, would you believe it?
02:10Terrible piece of defending in the middle by Dominguez. Hustled off the ball by Abagel. Lovely set-up play. Pagis, two chances. Hits the post with the first and then skews the second rebound wide.
02:29What a...
02:31Scored twice. To make it 2-0 before Ibusane. Corner kick, coming up to the half-hours. A good ball in! Oh, yes! And from nowhere, Mets have the lead!
02:44Sadi Mousane rising high. And the defender there with an imperious header. And the first thing that Yvonne Mbogo is going to have to do in this game is pick the ball out of the back of the net. Finally!
03:08Third season since he arrived from Caen. Fellow Ligue 2 side. And he did have a season at Strasbourg.
03:25In their most recent top-flight games, and at half-time then, thanks to the goal by the defender, Sadi Mousane, it's Lorient 0, Mets 1.
03:34What's the ìĄat?
03:35Why is it on the other?
03:37Well, I think there was a emphasis.
03:39But, I didn't know the last three he liked.
03:42What!?
03:44And he has killed it!
03:45What, that was bad!
03:47What, that was bad, everyone?
03:49Sadi Mousane, it's a part of the goal in the right hand corner.
03:53What?
03:54Did you see?
03:55Let me see!
03:57It's a part of the goalkeeper.
03:59We've been hitting it straight at the goalkeeper.
04:01Didn't hit it straight at the goalkeeper.
04:07Can't you.
04:31Inside by Mbuka, Kaju, Meite.
04:41A lot of passing, but there's not an awful lot of penetration going on at the moment into the Mets defences.
04:51Abagel, good tackling again.
04:53Gautier Hein comes away with it.
04:56Nice little double team there with Ibousane to get the ball off.
04:59L'Oreal once more.
05:06Mohamed Bomba.
05:10Looking in.
05:11Oh, he's got it!
05:16The two Bombas combine and it's Bomba-Jeng who scores.
05:26Finally the threat.
05:29The two substitutes combine.
05:32Olivier Poncelloni's decision-making.
05:36The poor ball back to start with.
05:41Mohamed Bomba with it.
05:43Nice little peel away there by Bomba-Jeng.
05:45And he scores his fifth goal of the campaign.
05:52No chance for Jonathan Fisher.
05:54And L'Oreal looking to keep alive an unbeaten run that goes back to November.
06:01Get the equaliser inside the last 20 minutes.
06:04And with Lorne Abagel going off, Dermain Karim, a 22-year-old defender, comes on.
06:26And his 15th appearance for L'Oreal since arriving in the summer from Belgian football.
06:33FC L'Oreal won, FC Mets won.
06:41Just over 15 minutes to go.
06:43Oh, they're getting themselves into trouble again.
06:45In de Fez.
06:46And a chance to go in front.
06:47And a chance to go in front.
06:55What is it?
06:56Oh, he's a man.
06:56Oh, he's a man.
06:57Oh, he's a man.
06:57Oh, he's a man.
06:58Oh.
06:58Oh, hey.
06:59Oh.
07:00Oh, hey.
07:00Torre, Silva.
07:12There's a feeling we're as likely to get a goal
07:14as any time during the game at the moment.
07:19Vuka, nicely done.
07:21Karim, charged down by Torre.
07:25Alpha Torre, that is.
07:27Mete.
07:30A little bit more urgency now for L'Oreal.
07:34Pagis.
07:37Oh, it's a good ball in.
07:38Oh, wonderful goal.
07:43Bob Majeng has done it again.
07:46What a substitution he's proved to be.
07:58Oh.
08:00He might be offside.
08:03It's a beautiful ball from Pagis.
08:05It's a great header.
08:06There's no doubt about that.
08:08But will it survive the VAR test?
08:13Mets will be hoping not.
08:15But if it did stand, then it will be the second goal of the new season.
08:29Unfortunately,
08:42it's a ball into Pagis.
08:48Mohamed Bomber again.
08:52First touch, let him down.
08:55However, L'Oreal keep hold of possession.
08:57Very different style of defending now from Mets to the one we saw in most of the game until the equaliser.
09:05Really have backed up inside their own last third of the pitch.
09:08Decent ball in.
09:09Bishop.
09:10Great ball in.
09:13He just drifts away from the defender, Mboula.
09:17But he kept his eyes on it well, did the keeper.
09:22Attacked at the end of his foot.
09:24Not so much anymore, though.
09:25Butcher Heng couldn't take it.
09:31Scrappy as we head towards full-time, which we've reached now.
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