00:02Well, this season comes down to two meetings in four days for these clubs, Saint-Etienne and Nice in this
00:12playoff for a place in Ligue 1 next season.
00:16Saint-Etienne with home advantage in the first leg here tonight with a huge crowd behind them.
00:20There are no Nice travelling supporters in the stadium and Saint-Etienne who finished third in Ligue 2 in the
00:30campaign just ended.
00:32Looking to get the better of a Nice team who finished third bottom in the top flight.
00:37There will be plenty of nerves here this evening given the high stakes but there is a deafening noise inside
00:44the stadium.
00:55Here after they got to the European Cup final of course, these glory days are a long time ago now
01:00for Saint-Etienne but they want to be back in the top division.
01:03Here they come, David Tashvili up against Antoine Mendy, a strong play from Mendy.
01:09That ball had gone out of play before David Tashvili could recover it.
01:16Kim, Gadeg Beku, the ball out to the right hand side, this is Caldona, he's got Stassan at the near
01:20post, drives it in.
01:22And into the arms of Yevan Diouf.
01:40Can these two, run the free kick, Jonathan Clos, he's got excellent delivery from a dead ball, French international, he's
01:50gonna try his lock from range here.
01:52Long way out for Klos, always rising, unable to force the save from Gautier-Larsenaar.
02:21And cross in, it's beyond Jonathan Clos.
02:24And cross in, it's beyond Jonathan Clos.
02:32Gadeg Beku, the youngster, continuing his run at the edge of the penalty box, just trying to hold off Oppong.
02:39He's a very strong defender.
02:41He's given away the free kick here in a dangerous position.
02:44Ruan Gadeg Beku holding his ankle.
02:49You can see it from behind the goal.
02:59Run by Gadeg Beku, good covering from Oppong.
03:06Contact beginning inside the penalty box, carrying on out of the area, that's where a foul was committed according to
03:13the referee.
03:14Not a huge amount in it, but it's a real chance here for the home team to do something.
03:26If the home team can score the opening goal, ten minutes to the interval.
03:30The referee's being asked to come and have a look at the images.
03:34Because he gave the free kick.
03:36The question is, did the foul begin inside the penalty box?
03:42Look at the tangle of legs.
03:52And there's Kudjo Pepra Oppong, up against Luan Gadeg Beku.
03:57Certainly the contact begins inside the area.
04:04We'll just tell the two captains initially.
04:06Lausanne are Saint Etienne goalkeeper and Morgan Sanson of Nice being called across.
04:18Keep an eye on the facial expressions of the two captains.
04:24Morgan Sanson seems to have been convinced that it's not going to be a penalty.
04:35Well was previously the manager, they were forced to be reckoned with.
04:41It's been such a difficult season for them.
04:43Dan Noah wins the header.
04:45There is the half-time whistle.
04:47Six minutes of stoppage time come and gone.
04:49It's been a tense first half.
04:51Saint Etienne have tried to take the game to their top flight opponents.
04:56The team they must beat over two legs if they are to be promoted to Ligue 1 next season.
05:01And Nice are to be relegated.
05:05So they'll nail after 45 minutes of play.
05:08Hard game.
05:08We knew it was going to be difficult for both sides with a little bit that luck.
05:12But look at the supporting stance for Saint Etienne.
05:15We'll take a short break.
05:16Come back here and meet sports with the highlights for the first half.
05:20It's like one of the promotion relation playoff.
05:24Under way in the second half of this playoff first leg between Saint Etienne and Nice.
05:29No goals in the first half.
05:32No serious chances to speak of either.
05:47And Nice making a second substitution of the evening.
05:51Half-time introduction of Ali Abdi in place of Thiago Gouveia.
05:56It's a wing back for a winger.
06:23Long throw here.
06:26Taken by Antoine Mendy.
06:32Helped on by Ba.
06:34Headed behind by Le Cardinal for a corner.
06:45Third corner kick of the game for the away team.
06:51Tashvili to take the corner.
06:57Good ball in.
06:59Comes out for the volley.
07:02That was a great strike.
07:03It just grazes the roof of the net on its way past from.
07:07A good view of it from behind the goal.
07:10Could have been something special if that had dropped in under the crossbar.
07:26And now.
07:26It's a good ball in.
07:27Now we're getting to it in front of Kevin Carlos, but he has conceded the corner.
07:42Now Melvin Barr perhaps the best player for Nice this.
07:46Still nil-nil tonight.
07:47They're going to have to repel this delivery from close.
07:52I don't know what does well.
07:54This player has stayed down inside the penalty box.
07:58The referee, understandably, is going to just stop the play.
08:03I don't know for treatment for Van Houten if necessary.
08:21Picked up by Kevin Carlos, the Spanish forward into the middle from him.
08:25The Cardinal took a little bit of a risk.
08:28He was obviously confident that there were no Nice players in proximity.
08:35Here by Lassana.
08:36They've had two of the seven added minutes.
08:48Two captains getting a warning from the referee.
08:53Not sure exactly what he's talking about.
08:55Claude Puel is very restless.
09:04The message is clearly, after this corner, the game is finished.
09:09Jansen swings it in.
09:12Danaro gets his head to it, and there is the final whistle.
09:15And the first leg of this crucial end-of-season playoff
09:21between Saint-Etienne and Nice finishes in a nil-nil draw.
09:25Saint-Etienne looking to make an immediate return to Ligue 1,
09:29having finished third in the second division this season.
09:32Nice looking to avoid a disastrous relegation to the second tier.
09:37After a quarter of a century unbroken in the top flight.
09:41Well, everything will be decided in the second leg in Nice on Friday,
09:45behind closed doors on the Côte d'Azur.
09:46Because here tonight, in Saint-Etienne, it is finished nil-nil.
09:52Today's session is gonna be done.
09:54We need to be done.
10:01Gr複雅 is a good suited for the first quarter event of the year.
10:03on the next one.
10:03the last 10 years…
10:03Would have been Y Perth I will be to be a small town.
10:03To be nice and extraordinary.
10:04the first one is to be a big deal.
10:05We're so big and turning it.
10:07OK,
10:07the next one is to be a big deal with somebody.
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