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They are very good.
This Wednesday evening, the first leg playoff for promotion to Ligue 1 2025-2026 between FC Metz and Stade de Reims took place at Stade Saint-Symphorien. Trailing 1-0, the Reims team managed to secure a draw, 1-1. Everything is still to play for!
As the players entered the field, a particularly unique tifo was displayed by Horda Frenetik, one of the two ultra groups of the Moselle club.
A choreography full of self-mockery depicting an elevator taken by a Metz supporter, going up one floor, from Ligue 2 to Ligue 1. And this message: "Priority to regulars." A reference to an image used to mock FC Metz, the "elevator club," regularly relegated from L1 to L2 in recent years.
📸 JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN - AFP or licensors
The numbers indeed do not prove the Metz supporters wrong: since 2000, the Lorrains have experienced eight relegations to L2, with seven promotions to L1.
An eighth next Thursday, after the return leg played on the field of Stade de Reims?
📸 JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN - AFP or licensors