Toulouse creates the feat by winning against Liverpool (3-2)

Toulouse wrote one of the most beautiful pages in its history on Thursday, November 9, in a melting Stadium, beating Liverpool, favorites in the Europa League, 3 goals to 2. The last winner of the Coupe de France is thus well placed to continue his adventure. “It’s a historic evening. History for the club, the city, the players. We must appreciate this moment as it should be. It’s a moment that we will remember for a very long time.”coach Carles Martinez rejoiced afterwards.

The Toulouse supporters, two weeks after the slap received at Anfield (5-1) at the current third in the English championship, a monument of European football, hardly dared to believe in an achievement. “On a misunderstanding, it can work”they joked about a tifo deployed before kick-off, in a self-deprecating reference to the film Tanned people go skiing.

Their TFC was ultimately more successful than Jean-Claude Dusse, the unfortunate flirt in the film, “conclusive” three times and rising into the legend of the club, at the height of the winners of Maradona’s Naples in 1986. The “misunderstanding” began to take shape when Norwegian striker Aron Donnum scored his first goal for Toulouse with a slightly deflected shot (1-0, 36^e) after taking the ball from Greek full-back Kostas Tsimikas.

Toulouse saved by video refereeing

Toulouse are rewarded for their superior level of commitment, after the Reds missed the opener with a header from their captain Joe Gomez on the crossbar (4^e). Liverpool’s German coach, Jürgen Klopp, may have brought in Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Dominik Szoboszlai after half-time, but the Toulouse team, pushed by their home crowd, continued to dominate. The Chilean Gabriel Suazo missed the goal of the break (47^e), denied to the Dutchman Thijs Dallinga a few minutes later for a slight fault before he took revenge with a nice sequence (2-0, 58^e).

TFC was denied another goal, from Donnum (66^e), for an offside, and he surely regretted it when the English reduced the score with an own goal from the unfortunate Cristian Casseres (74^e). Returning Frank Magri (76^e) then had the good idea to give some breathing space to his team, who still finished the match in apnea after a further reduction in the score, from Diogo Jota (88^e).

Jarell Quansah thought he would equalize after seven minutes of added time, but his goal was invalidated after recourse to video refereeing for a handball from his teammate Alexis Mac Allister at the very start of the action.

Record attendance at the Stadium

“We would have already been happy with a draw, but we made too many mistakes and Toulouse played well”, recognized Jürgen Klopp. His Reds, who have only lost one match this season so far in all competitions, still remain in control of Group E with 9 points.

The only good news for Liverpool, on a non-sporting level, the father of Luis Diaz, kidnapped at the end of October in Colombia by the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN), was released shortly before the start of the match in which the winger participated, obviously relieved.

Toulouse follows two lengths and could secure second place on the next day on November 30, again at home, in the event of success over the Belgians Union Saint-Gilloise, soundly beaten in Linz (3-0) on Thursday evening.

This beautiful European evening, experienced in front of 32,026 people (including 1,200 English), a record attendance at the Stadium since its renovation for Euro 2016, will have made the Toulouse residents forget their bad luck in the championship, where they are currently ranked 14th. .

For their part, still Thursday evening in the Europa League, Rennes won against Panathinaikos (3-1) and Marseille against AEK Athens (2-0). Lille finished with a draw against Slovan Bratislava (1-1).