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Player Focus: Returning Playmakers Can Light Up Ligue 1

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Aug 17 2015 12:10
Player Focus: Returning Playmakers Can Light Up Ligue 1 If there is a sense of a talent drain from Ligue 1 - at least from middle-ranking clubs like Nantes and Lorient - in the face of the Premier League’s riches, then the return of some familiar faces is providing a welcome counterbalance to that. This week, Mathieu Valbuena completed his return t...
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Team Focus: Bielsa Exit Leaves Marseille at Crisis Point

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Aug 10 2015 12:27
Team Focus: Bielsa Exit Leaves Marseille at Crisis Point Sunday morning’s edition of La Provence needed little wit or nuance to sell its main story. The cover said it all, a gut punch to Olympique de Marseille fans – “Bielsa démissione” (Bielsa resigns) was the headline, plastered over a photo of the coach on the touchline m...
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League Focus: The Six Key Figures of Ligue 1 in 2014/15

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, May 26 2015 10:34
League Focus: The Six Key Figures of Ligue 1 in 2014/15 The finisher: Alexandre Lacazette (Lyon) The 23-year-old was voted Player of the Year by the Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionnels (UNFP), and it was richly deserved. Lacazette hit 27 goals in just 33 Ligue 1 starts, a club record, but the local boy was about so much more than just that as...
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League Focus: Monaco Well-placed to Net Ligue 1’s Coveted Third Place

by Andy Brassell at Monday, May 18 2015 11:05
League Focus: Monaco Well-placed to Net Ligue 1’s Coveted Third Place Fans of final day suspense will probably feel let down following the 37th, and penultimate, round of Ligue 1 action. Paris Saint-Germain officially eliminated the minuscule doubts that lingered over their third straight title win by beating Montpellier. Meanwhile, last week’s subjects Evian no...
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Team Focus: Brilliant Benezet Sums Up Evian’s Predicament

by Andy Brassell at Monday, May 11 2015 11:54
Team Focus: Brilliant Benezet Sums Up Evian’s Predicament There are still six points to play for, insisted Evian Thonon-Gaillard’s coach Pascal Dupraz after Saturday’s defeat to Reims. A sortie for such a cliché, inevitably laden with impending doom, only compounded a crushing loss that leaves the Annecy-based club staring relegation to ...
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Team Focus: Printant Pulls Bastia Close Towards the Great Escape

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, May 5 2015 10:58
Team Focus: Printant Pulls Bastia Close Towards the Great Escape All things come to those who wait, they say, and Ghislain Printant has been more patient than most. Having spent 25 years as a goalkeeping coach and then working in youth academies, he got his shot at the top job at Bastia in November, after Claude Makélélé was fired. It has not...
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Team Focus: Can Montpellier or Lille Handle a European Campaign?

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Apr 27 2015 15:13
Team Focus: Can Montpellier or Lille Handle a European Campaign? When Montpellier look back on this campaign, it is almost certain – judging four games from its climax – that they will do so with a certain satisfaction, bearing in mind their means, particularly compared to those of their Ligue 1 peers. Nevertheless, there have been a few bubbles of di...
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Match Focus: Fekir’s Magic Not Enough to Seal Electric Rhone-Alpes Derby

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Apr 20 2015 15:30
Match Focus: Fekir’s Magic Not Enough to Seal Electric Rhone-Alpes Derby “I’ve nothing to reproach my players for,” said Saint Etienne coach Christophe Galtier after Sunday night’s draw at Lyon. “It’s me that should feel bad, because the strategy (I) adopted allowed Lyon to create lots of (dangerous) situations.”A year in the Rho...
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League Focus: Relegation Battle Tightens on Ligue 1’s Binary Sunday

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Apr 13 2015 15:54
League Focus: Relegation Battle Tightens on Ligue 1’s Binary Sunday 1-0, 1-0, 0-1, 1-0, 0-1, 0-0. The Sunday afternoon multiplex in Ligue 1 might have looked unappetising viewing on paper – with the final five being played simultaneously, after the Saturday schedule was cleared for the Coupe de la Ligue final – but there was no shortage of tension.At the...
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Match Focus: Questions Remain for Dortmund and Bayern After Der Klassiker

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, Apr 7 2015 11:44
Match Focus: Questions Remain for Dortmund and Bayern After Der Klassiker With over 80,000 people packed into the Signal Iduna Park and the eyes of millions of television spectators fixed on Saturday’s clash between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich, it seemed almost surreal that the result was not, perhaps, of the highest importance when they met early Saturday e...
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