Lenfant slips past Gassama by a nose
Maximilien Lenfant's second goal of the season has taken him to 62 for Stade Malherbe Caen, one beyond Boubacar Gassama's 61, and the old mark is gone.
The ball drops, the stand holds its breath, and Maximilien Lenfant is already turning away with an arm raised — his second goal of the season, his 62nd for Stade Malherbe Caen, and Boubacar Gassama's 61 is no longer the number that defines the place. In the 2063/64 Ligue 1 Uber Eats campaign, one nudge of a shoulder and a finish was all it took to rearrange the club's history.
Since arriving from FC Lorient in the summer of 2059, Lenfant has gone about his business without fuss: 144 games, 62 goals, a local hero in a modest club with a local following. "I just wanted to keep scoring," he might shrug, and that is precisely the point. The record is his. The raised eyebrow belongs to the rest of us.