The 2014 Coupe de France Final decided the winner of the 2013–14 Coupe de France, the 97th season of France's premier football cup. It was played on 3 May at the

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in Saint-Denis,

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. In the final,

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beat

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

2–0 in a ''

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'' to win their second Coupe de France title. By winning, they qualified for the Group Stage of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League, and the 2014 Trophée des Champions against the 2013–14 Ligue 1 champions

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Background

The match was Rennes' sixth final, of which they had won two (

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and

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). Their most recent final was in 2009, which they lost 2-1 to Guingamp. That was Guingamp's second appearance in the final after their unsuccessful attempt in 1997 when they lost on penalties to

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Route to the final

Rennes

Rennes, of Ligue 1, began their campaign in the Round of 64 on 4 January at home to fellow top-flight team

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, winning 8-7 on penalties. In the next round, they won 2-0 at third-tier

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, with goals from

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and Silvio Romero. In the Round of 16, away to

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, they won via a first-half

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goal. Rennes then beat

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2-0 at home, with goals from

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and

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. In their semi-final on 15 April, Rennes beat second-tier

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3-2 at home, with

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, Grosicki and

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scoring.

Guingamp

Guingamp, also of Ligue 1, entered into the Round of 64, where they played away to third-tier Bourg-Péronnas on 5 January and won via first-half goals from

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and

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. They went away again in the Round of 32, to fifth-tier Concarneau, and won 3-2 in extra-time after a 1-1 regulation-time draw, Yatabaré (2) and Beauvue again the scorers. In the Round of 16 Guingamp travelled to Corsica to play another fifth-tier club, Île-Rousse, who had reached that stage by defeating holders

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. Goals from Grégory Cerdan and Mustapha Diallo sent Guingamp into the quarter-finals, where they played

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and won 2-0 away again, through another Yatabaré brace. In the semi-final on 16 April 2014, Guingamp played at home against their first top-flight opponents,

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. Yatabaré scored early on, but

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equalised before half-time. The scores remained level into the second half of extra time, in which Guingamp scored twice, through Yatabaré and Fatih Atık.

Match

Summary

Jonathan Martins Pereira scored the first goal for Guingamp with a volley from the edge of the area in the 37th minute, and

got the second in the 46th minute with a powerful downward header from Steeven Langil's left-wing cross.

Details

References

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