CFA 2 Round 12 Saturday 3rd December 2005 RED STAR 1 AMIENS 2 (ht 1-0) Attendance : 550 - referee : Sébastien Crampon assisted by Dominique Godefroy & Stéphane Gandrille Goals : Abdallah (26) - Mencé (59), Dia (63) Booked : Diomande (29), Hammami (60), Baldé (65), Benmesmoudi (78) - Kacem (18), Dervaux (74) Subs : Davidson by Aklouche (69) - Kacem by Sambiaku Diani (85), Soumbounou by NKoa (87) RED STAR FC 93 : BELL (1), HAMMAMI (2), N'SIMBA (3) cap., YESSAD (4), BEHICHE (5), DIOMANDE (6), DAVIDSON (7), ABDALLAH (8), DOUMBYA (9), BALDE (10), BENMESMOUDI (11), TOUNKARA (12), BUDOC (13), AKLOUCHE (14), GUEI (15), GHILI (16). Coach : Jean-Luc GIRARD AMIENS 2 : TANGARA (1), KOULEMI (2), TETARD (3), COLLIN (4), DA ROCHA (5), DERVAUX 6 (cap.), KINKELA FUNADA (7), KACEM (8), MENCE (9), DIA (10), SOUMBOUNOU (14), N'KOA (12), SAMBIAKU DIANI (13), SYLLA (14), CHATALEN (16). Non-starter : Diaw (11). Coach : Manu PIRES Penalty area pressure for Amiens RED STAR SLUMP Red Star came unstuck Saturday evening at a rainy Bauer against one of their closes rivals for the title, but this match will not be remembered for five minutes in which the visitors came from behind to score two quick goals. Unfortunately for the Audoniens, the actions of one nobhead will be the lasting memory of a close-fought encounter between two decent quality teams (see the news). After a fairly sterile first half an hour, Red Star took the lead when Lassana Doumbya was brought down on the edge of the penalty area. Amiens built a white wall but this was not enough, and Juninho, sorry , Taïeb ABDALLAH bent a perfect free-kick round and into the corner past Tangara (1-0). With a strung wind gusting into their backs, Red Star employed the long ball a great deal, relying on the pace of Doumbya, Davidson & Benmesmoudi. But more often than not Tangara was aware to the danger, coming out of his area to clear his lines. After the paause, with Red Star looking settled, the game turned on his head in a spell of five minutes. Just before the hour, a lovely lob over the Red Star defence left Bell stranded; as he came to clear the ball rebounded off Mencé into the net (1-1). Five minutes later and Red Star attempted to build a movement down the left, N'Simbas' pass to Abdallah was poorly struck, allowing Kacem to race through forty metres, feeding the lively Dia who slipped the ball past Bell (2-1). The last moments of the game saw one-way traffic on the Amiens goal, but Tangara and his defence, aided by some poor finishing from Red Star kept the score as it was. At the end of the game it appeared as if Amiens had won the Champions' League, given their reactions. A defeat hard to swallow for Red Star; now they must pull up their socks and do the necessary against a rapidly-fading Chantilly in two weeks' time. MATCH PHOTOS FOCUS ON : AMIENS MATCH REPORTS 2005-2006 Index Page