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Messi and Hazard Star in WhoScored.com's European Team of the Month

by Josh Wright at Jumatano, Ago 31 2016 16:20
Messi and Hazard Star in WhoScored.com's European Team of the Month With the first batch of international fixtures upon us, WhoScored.com take a look at the highest rated players from the first month of the new campaign. Players that have started at least two matches come into consideration from Europe’s big five leagues, so Bundesliga players aren’t inc...
Categories: League Focus

Guingamp Flying as Kombouaré Returns in Triumph

by Andy Brassell at Jumanne, Ago 30 2016 14:20
Guingamp Flying as Kombouaré Returns in Triumph It’s been a long four-and-a-half years for Antoine Kombouaré. It was a few days before the end of 2011 that he was fired by Paris Saint-Germain, with the club he had served so memorably as a player sitting pretty atop Ligue 1. The club’s board got the more cosmopolitan replacement...
Categories: Team Focus

Lethal Lacazette Gets Lyon Off to a Flyer

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Ago 15 2016 15:35
Lethal Lacazette Gets Lyon Off to a Flyer “If (the president) says I’m staying, then I’m staying.” Alexandre Lacazette smiled that famous smile with the assurance of a seasoned pro as Canal+ grilled him on his Olympique Lyonnais future, following Sunday’s Ligue 1 opener at Nancy. He’s been here before, an...
Categories: Player Focus

Ligue 1 2015/16 Round-up - Can Anyone Compete With PSG?

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Mei 16 2016 17:10
Ligue 1 2015/16 Round-up - Can Anyone Compete With PSG? How do Paris Saint-Germain move on from Zlatan Ibrahimovic?He arrived with a bang, and left with one. Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s final game at the Parc des Princes on Saturday was spectacular, with the game stopped for an ovation in the 10th minute before he scored twice against Nantes to help take ...
Categories: League Focus

Jardim’s Monaco Plan Falls Apart in Champions League Chase

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Mei 9 2016 11:00
Jardim’s Monaco Plan Falls Apart in Champions League Chase Jérémy Toulalan will never be one of French football’s most prolific talkers so when he does open up, it’s worth listening. The words of the Monaco midfield stalwart are like his game, straightforward and decisive. “There are no excuses,” he said after his curre...
Categories: Match Focus

Revived Toulouse Down But Not Out

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Apr 25 2016 17:40
Revived Toulouse Down But Not Out It was a beginning in keeping with Toulouse’s sorry season. When Pascal Dupraz was appointed as coach to replace Dominique Arribagé, it seemed like president Olivier Sadran was already planning for life in Ligue 2. Arribagé’s side had just been beaten at home in the worst p...

Resurgent Lille Go from Cellar Dwellers to Champions League Chasers

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Apr 18 2016 17:30
Resurgent Lille Go from Cellar Dwellers to Champions League Chasers If any team epitomises the haywire nature of this Ligue 1 campaign outside the bubble of Paris Saint Germain’s supremacy, then it is surely Lille. At the start of February, Les Dogues were three points above the drop zone, and had managed a miserable tally of 18 goals in 23 games. After winnin...
Categories: Team Focus

Marvellous Maxwell Compromising Fekir and Valbuena Euro Chances

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Apr 11 2016 10:55
Marvellous Maxwell Compromising Fekir and Valbuena Euro Chances “It was, without a doubt, one of my most difficult weeks in terms of choice.” Bruno Genesio thought long and hard before finalising his Lyon team for Friday night’s trip to Montpellier. The coach’s decision revolved around one position in particular. Maxwell Cornet had been r...
Categories: Player Focus

Bordeaux Chipping Away to Safety Under Club Legend Ramé

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Apr 4 2016 15:50
Bordeaux Chipping Away to Safety Under Club Legend Ramé “Is there a Ramé effect? The future will confirm that - or not.” It’s early days for Ulrich Ramé as Bordeaux coach, but it already seems as if he’s as steady a personality as a boss as he was as the goalkeeper that served Les Girondins for the best part of 15 ye...
Categories: Team Focus

Marseille Mess Goes From Bad to Worse

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Mac 21 2016 17:50
Marseille Mess Goes From Bad to Worse “Trop de pression au Vel? Vous avez ¼ d’heure pour jouer libéré.” There were a number of banners on the Stade Vélodrome’s Virage Nord expressing the disquiet of Marseille’s ultras at their favourites’ current predicament, with the mark ...
Categories: Team Focus