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Imperious Paris Saint-Germain Continue to Smash Records

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Mac 14 2016 14:40
Imperious Paris Saint-Germain Continue to Smash Records “It’s only the first stage of the season. It’s not finished.” Paris Saint-Germain’s president Nasser Al-Khelaifi’s reaction after his team snared a fourth consecutive title in the most emphatic fashion possible, with a 9-0 demolition of Troyes, summed up the Ligue...
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Player Focus: Lemar Returns in Style as Caen Hold Firm Against Monaco

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Mac 7 2016 16:15
Player Focus: Lemar Returns in Style as Caen Hold Firm Against Monaco “He’s a boy who’s always listening, with an enormous amount of humility. He’s going to the very top.” Caen captain Alaeddine Yahia’s assessment of his former teammate Thomas Lemar, delivered to beIN Sports after the 20-year-old returned with Monaco on Friday night...
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League Focus: Plethora of Strike Pairs Gives Way to Ligue 1 Goalrush

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Feb 22 2016 15:30
League Focus: Plethora of Strike Pairs Gives Way to Ligue 1 Goalrush When Bordeaux and Nice were grinding their way to a goalless draw on Friday night, we couldn’t have imagined it. Ligue 1’s spectacular Saturday was an unexpected jolt of joy after a particularly inauspicious beginning to the weekend, with the aggregate haul of 23 from the five matches pl...
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Team Focus: Nantes Reach Up Towards Former Glories

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Feb 15 2016 11:45
Team Focus: Nantes Reach Up Towards Former Glories There will have been worse hangovers this weekend. After a heady Saturday night at Stade de la Beaujoire - and there are few arenas in France that whip up such an intoxicating atmosphere at their best - Nantes supporters will have woken up, rubbed their eyes and been able to see their side in fifth ...
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Team Focus: Reims Rally With New Attacking Formula

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Feb 8 2016 15:30
Team Focus: Reims Rally With New Attacking Formula “I’m maintaining all my confidence (in him),” said Stade de Reims president Jean-Pierre Caillot of his coach, Olivier Guégan. “But I’m not giving unlimited credit.” This ‘backing’ of Guégan, in the immediate aftermath of the damaging home...
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Team Focus: Hantz Return Worth the Wait for Montpellier

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Feb 1 2016 11:30
Team Focus: Hantz Return Worth the Wait for Montpellier All things come to those who wait. The 2015/2016 season has been, thus far, the season of the coaching comeback in France. Following the return of the popular Frédéric Antonetti to Ligue 1 with Lille after a two-and-a-half year absence, it was the turn of another much-missed entra&icir...
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Match Focus: Draw Favours Nobody in Battle of the Olympiques

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Jan 25 2016 11:35
Match Focus: Draw Favours Nobody in Battle of the Olympiques It would be easy to think that L’Equipe’s Sunday morning headline, “Du KO dans l’air,” which prefaced the evening clash of the Olympiques between Lyon and Marseille, leaned towards the over-dramatic. This is, after all, only January during a season in which Paris Saint-...
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Player Focus: Should Hatem Ben Arfa go to Euro 2016?

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Jan 18 2016 17:30
Player Focus: Should Hatem Ben Arfa go to Euro 2016? Some things never change. As Hatem Ben Arfa responded to questions in the media area of the Allianz Riviera after his match winning performance on Friday night, the Nice midfielder was interrupted by a tap on the shoulder. It was from the hand of Saïd Chabane, the president of Angers, whose tea...
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League Focus: Relegation Battle Warms Up French Winter

by Andy Brassell at Jumatatu, Jan 11 2016 14:30
League Focus: Relegation Battle Warms Up French Winter One of the most curious, and most-quoted, statistics of the first half of the Ligue 1 season was a by-product of Paris Saint-Germain’s growing dominance of French football. Going into Christmas, second-placed Monaco were closer to the bottom three (13 points away) than they were to Laurent Bla...
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League Focus: Five Observations From the First Half of Ligue 1 2015/16

by Andy Brassell at Jumanne, Des 22 2015 09:40
League Focus: Five Observations From the First Half of Ligue 1 2015/16 PSG's history boysThough the neutral might regret that the Ligue 1 title race is effectively over at the halfway stage, there is no getting around Paris Saint-Germain’s excellence. Laurent Blanc’s team are so much better than last season, in which they gave their rivals a proper sniff of...
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