John Boye secures French Ligue 1 promotion with Metz

Ghanaian defender John Boye has inspired French Ligue 2 side Metz to book a qualification ticket to the French topflight on Friday.

Metz travelled far away to France, Stade de Paris, to beat Red Star FC 93 at home by 2-1 to cement their name in the 2020/2021 French Ligue 1 season.Following their beautiful win.

Ghanaian International John Boye played an integral role for his side to record the win.As he set up an insist for the winning goal in the die embers of the game.

Habib Diallo opened the scoring for the travellers in the 11th minute to put the homers on a tie bomb.But Red Star managed to fight back for an equalizer on the 45th minute through Ismael Camara strike.

That was almost done for the visitors.

Until John Boye set up an enigmatic pass to Opa Nguette in the latter minutes of the game (90 minute) to find the winner.

John Boye throttled the entire duration of the game for Metz.

Metz after the win, accumulated 34points, enough to top Ligue 2 table and qualify for next season Ligue 1 challenge.

METZ Starting XI

16. Alexandre Oukidja, 13. Stophira Sunzu, 21. John Boye, 25. Iván Balliu, 17. Thomas Delaine, 24. Renaud Cohade, 6. Mamadou Fofana, 5. Victorien Angban, 27. Farid Boulaya, 11. Opa Nguette, 20. Habib Diallo