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Team Focus: Bielsa Must Initiate Marseille Shake-Up to Stay in Ligue 1 Title Race

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Team Focus: Bielsa Must Initiate Marseille Shake-Up to Stay in Ligue 1 Title Race February has not yet come to its end but already, this felt like a pivotal weekend in the race for the Ligue 1 title – and Mevlut Erding’s late equaliser for Saint Etienne on Sunday night felt like a pivotal goal, as it denied Marseille a win at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard on a weekend in wh...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips This is one of those weekends where the Europe's biggest sides have to make the most of winnable fixtures just before a return to European action that will be a drain on their energy.LIKELY BETSCesena vs Juventus: JUVE HT/JUVE FT @ 1.61There is simply no questioning Juventus' superiority here; they ...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips A cracking weekend of football lies ahead. La Liga and Ligue 1 have games that could shape the title race, Serie A with a classic encounter that once decided the Champions League and the Premier League with two of the most heated derbies in England’s top tier.LIKELY BETSAtletico Madrid vs Real...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips No Premier League action this week due to the FA Cup, but entertainment is guaranteed as the most interesting bets are centered around the number of goals scored, especially in Ligue 1, a rare occurrence.LIKELY BETS Lazio vs Milan: BOTH TEAMS TO SCORE @ 1.83 A team on the verge of a nervous breakdow...

League Focus: Does Anybody Have the Nerve to Win Ligue 1?

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League Focus: Does Anybody Have the Nerve to Win Ligue 1? Finally, in the penultimate match of Ligue 1’s first weekend of 2015, we had a title contender that looked like one. Lyon’s authoritative 3-0 win over Toulouse on Sunday afternoon saw Hubert Fournier’s side sweep to the top of the table, after the other two teams comprising the win...

League Focus: What We Know at the Halfway Point in Ligue 1 2014/15

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League Focus: What We Know at the Halfway Point in Ligue 1 2014/15 Transfers are overratedChampions Paris Saint-Germain’s taste for eye-catching transfers in recent years has given Ligue 1 a new dimension. For a while, Monaco were joining in, counting high-end additions such as Radamel Falcao, James Rodríguez and João Moutinho as promotion prese...

League Focus: Who Would Best Help Repair France's European Standing?

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League Focus: Who Would Best Help Repair France's European Standing? When the final round of Champions League group fixtures comes around next week, the attentions of Ligue 1 fans are likely to have drifted from the Camp Nou, where Paris Saint-Germain take on Barcelona in a blue riband fixture as they bid to cement top spot in Group F. Instead, many will be occupied ...

Player Focus: Playmaker Payet Takes Over the Creative Reins at Marseille

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Player Focus: Playmaker Payet Takes Over the Creative Reins at Marseille After an impressive World Cup, one would have expected Marseille to fight tooth and nail to keep hold of Mathieu Valbuena. The pint-sized playmaker ranked among the 25 highest-rated players according to WhoScored (7.56) at Brazil 2014, so his departure to Russia for Dinamo Moscow was somewhat of a s...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips It's the French showdown - Le Classique - where the tactically astute Marcelo Bielsa takes his Marseille side to the French capital to face off against Laurent Blanc’s star-studded PSG. There is another game that could have had the same billing, but Liverpool’s current form means it woul...

Match Focus: Marvellous Marseille Denied Again by Lyon

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Match Focus: Marvellous Marseille Denied Again by Lyon If an end had to come to Marseille’s scintillating winning run of eight matches, it was probably always destined to be at Stade de Gerland against Lyon, in the derby of the two Olympiques. Exactly the same had happened on their last such run of successes, when Bernard Lacombe’s side defe...