The Moroccan international scored in the third minute to give the league leaders a five-point cushion over second-placed Paris Saint-Germain who play Lille this Sunday
In a hard-fought game against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Toulouse-FC-c40751, Montpellier Herault should have made more goals. Most notably, Olivier Giroud, the league’s top-scorer, saw his penalty saved by young Ali Ahamada in the 58th minute.
However, thanks to a classy goal by Younes Belhanda early hours of the game, the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899 international was not to rue his miss.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 manager, Kenny Dalglish was present in the stands to watch the highly-rated Belhanda who was in great form against Alain Casanova’s side. The young midfielder skipped past several challenges before unleashing a fierce shot past Ahamada.
After giving Lyon a 3-0 drubbing in Week 32, Toulouse seem to have fallen behind a little bit. Last week, they lost to Evian TG. However, one must give credit to Toulouse defence as Belhanda’s goal was only the eight goal they had conceded at home this season.
However, Les Pitchouns were three points away from fourth place heading into this game and took the game to the league leaders. First Adrien Regattin and then http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pantxi-Sirieix-c29071 created chances though Montpellier defence didn’t really see much perturbed by the
assaults.
Toulouse were set to fall further behind when young http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marco-Estrada-c23693 corner.
Olivier Giroud was give the responsibility to double his side’s advantage but a brilliant save from Ahamada made sure that the home side were still in the game.
Certainly Toulouse haven’t been a strong scoring side this campaign and they were always going to find it hard to score against the second-best defence in France.
Ahamada was in great form and the young custodian denied Olivier Giroud once again in a one-on-one in the 64th minute.
La Paillade could have been ruing missed chances had Jourdren not denied Riviere from close-range in the 66th minute.
In the end, Montpellier managed to shut out the home side’s attack and get all three points which give them a five-point lead over Paris Saint-Germain who will play LOSC Lille at the Stade Metropole this Sunday.
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