Sorta…play-in games for Lyon to qualify for Conf League. Strasbourg lose anything and everything like it’s 1871. Give it up to Le Havre (yeah, Normandy, bay-bee!) who are safe, whooda thunk?! Instead Reims in 18th and the relegation match.
For the time being yes BUT if Reims lose the Cup final against PSG next Saturday (they probably will) then Strasbourg get the Conference. You guessed it, it's going to be a weird Cup final next week with both sides thinking very strongly about other games (we have the CL final in Munich a week later while Reims have to play a 2-legged play-off vs Metz to avoid relegation, the final is actually sandwiched between the home and away leg of the play-off, couldn't make it up). Saint-Etienne logically going back down. It was always a Ligue 2 side playing in the top flight. They must thank Montpellier for not finishing bottom.
My apologies, the app I use didn’t take that into account. I’d have to research to fully understand this, but I’ll guess that PSG winning the Coupe de France raises Ligue 1’s status or “coefficient” so as to allow a 7th team a stab at Europe? Bizarre. Even more bizarre if Reims wins the Coupe de France *and* is relegated within mere days.
Reims supporters must be utterly gutted on how this season ended. Perhaps they got an inkling when they lost to St Etienne in their regular season home finale. At least the Strasbourg Alsace v Metz Lorraine rivalry is back.
I quite like Metz. Remind me of the UEFA Cup in the 90s for some reason. Shame for St Etienne, big club but they've been in an absolute mess for a while now. Any signs of them sorting things out?
Don’t know, but the city reminds me of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA in their evolution from old school (coal; Pittsburgh was steel) economy to new school industries. Perhaps they’ll achieve that larger success and their football club will eventually follow along.
Prolific French striker of the 70s and 80s Lacombe died aged 72. France legend who won Euro 1984 and scored fastest ever goal dies aged 72
Still going strong at 39 and back in Ligue Un. Olivier Giroud: French forward joins Lille after leaving LAFC
PSG pissed at French national team, how dare they pick players from PSG and them get injured Paris St-Germain: Ousmane Dembele and Desire Doue injuries criticised It's a risk you take having internationals in your team, could understand their complaint IF it were San Marino, Azerbaijan or Liechtenstein, and even then why should THEY have players excused because they play for X and not Y....... Hardly like PSG struggle in the league or don't have an ample squad compared to the rest that said I can guess why they are annoyed, has anyone seen their CL fixtures? Atalanta at home followed by Barcelona and Leverkusen away, Bayern at home then spuds also at home. Not that Marseille say have easy fixtures, Madrid away, Ajax at home then Sporting away so had it been two of their players would they be entitled to be more than peeved...? (Monaco have citeh and spuds 2nd and 3rd up, think all teams have to play a few toughies and who has shown to have the best team and squad in France past dozen or so seasons, mostly....)
What's your point? Are we entitled to criticize Deschamps or not? My take on this is that the club should have faked an injury to both players. They had a long, hard season in 24/25 and then straight to the blazing oven of the US for the Club World Cup with little rest to start the new season. The club needed to protect its players and it didn't. Simple as.
Surely a bad and sad sign of Ligue 1’s status here in USA was made clearer today: Le Classique between OM and PSG was only available live in Spanish. DAZN sold the American viewing rights to BeIN Sports USA, likely per having no other bidding offers. The problem for Ligue 1 is that although this network is officially bilingual (one channel English, one Spanish) it is unofficially starting to weigh toward the Spanish. This is surely because they own USA rights to the Copa Libertadores and its lower league Copa Sudamericana. No English-language replay of OM-PSG is on BeIN’s schedule, including their free “Sports Xtra” channel. So football-wise, they have the rights to these South American championships, France’s Ligue 1, and Türkiye’s Süper Lig. What’s a poor TV network to do on an American Monday afternoon when OM v PSG overlaps with Galatasary v Konyaspor? Apparently they decide to use the Spanish channel for the higher profile match, and the English channel for Süper Lig…because they’ve decided their Spanish viewers must outnumber their English viewers. What else can one reasonably conclude? Ligue 1 bigwigs should be aware of this USA viewing reality and try their best to convince the likes of ESPN, Fox, NBC/Peacock, Paramount, or even Amazon Prime or Apple TV+ to bid for the rights next time around!
Yup. We should be annoyed losing to the vermin down south but it's become such an ordinary fixture that nobody cares anymore. Moving on.
Oh. (Still, BeIN had a choice.) Yeah they lost but they’re still in a Ligue of Their Own or so I reckon.
Most entertaining game attended since City in January. That Strasbourg side is resilient. We had loads of injuries yes but doubt we'll get into that amount of trouble by any other team. Glad we equalised though, a Strasbourg win wouldn't have been deserved.
I pity da fool (me) who missed this, running afternoon errands that couldda waited. Strasbourg would be on top if they’d held that early 2nd half 3-1 lead. Now OM can overtake both of them. And I pity da fool what wrote this earlier.
Well well well PSG only draw so we’ll have a 3-way points leadership if both OM & OL win their ongoing matches.
