Good reached their first Coupe de France closing since 2022 as two targets from Elye Wahi helped seal a 2-0 win over Gary O’Neil’s Strasbourg in Wednesday’s semi-final.
Having gained the competitors 3 times as a participant with Monaco, Claude Puel will now look to repeat the trick in his managerial profession towards Lens in subsequent month’s showpiece.
After a cagey begin from each groups, Wahi was introduced with the sport’s first clear-cut alternative within the thirteenth minute, however after enjoying a neat one-two with Tom Louchet, he noticed his prodded shot tipped onto the publish by Mike Penders.
It was then Strasbourg’s flip to squander two superb probabilities 10 minutes later, with Julio Enciso’s effort from Diego Moreira’s cutback cleared off the road by Antoine Mendy earlier than Martial Godo by some means blazed over the rebound from six yards out.
Enciso then dragged an try narrowly broad within the fiftieth minute, and Good made essentially the most of that reprieve 70 seconds later by way of Wahi, who drilled the ball into the bottom-left nook after being slipped in behind by Jonathan Clauss.
Strasbourg pushed for an equaliser late on as Enciso curled narrowly broad of the far publish earlier than Gessime Yassine lashed one other Moreira supply over the crossbar.
Nevertheless, they have been hit with a sucker punch eight minutes from time after Ismael Doukoure introduced down Mohamed-Ali Cho contained in the penalty space, with the spot-kick awarded after a VAR assessment, and Wahi made no mistake from 12 yards as he despatched Penders the improper method to seal the win.
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Knowledge Debrief: Medical Good on the cusp of glory
Not since 1997 have Good been topped the Coupe de France champions, with the closest they got here coming 4 years in the past when a Forty seventh-minute penalty from Ludovic Blas noticed Nantes emerge victorious on the Stade de France.
And after a tough season in Ligue 1, the place they discover themselves 4 factors above the relegation play-off place, Good might have one thing to cheer about on the finish of Might, and their victory right here could possibly be an excellent omen for them.
The one earlier conflict between Good and Lens within the Coupe de France had seen a 5-0 victory for the Aiglons within the spherical of 32 in 1954, an version they went on to win.
Puel’s facet have been made to work for his or her triumph, however their medical ending proved to be the distinction. They ended with an anticipated targets (xG) complete of 1.64, with 1.31 of that tally coming from Wahi, from their 4 photographs, to Strasbourg’s 1.25 from their 17 makes an attempt.