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Match Focus: Lyon’s Growing Stamina Catches Out PSG

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Match Focus: Lyon’s Growing Stamina Catches Out PSG Three weeks, it turns out, is a long time in the life of Ligue 1. If somebody had told you at the start of the month that after Paris Saint-Germain’s meeting with Lyon, one team would be steeling themselves for a productive winter while the other would be questioning the very direction of thei...

Player Focus: Europe's Best Battling Defensive Midfielders

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Player Focus: Europe's Best Battling Defensive Midfielders The transfer window is now upon us and in a series of features scouting some of the top players in Europe thus far this season, we start with 10 of the best battling midfielders around.For those looking to add steel in central areas to their teams, you need look no further than the leaderboard here,...

Team Focus: Lyon's Midfield Changes

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Team Focus: Lyon's Midfield Changes It would be easy for the city of Lyon to have slumped into a fit of depression of late. Four games into the current season, Les Gones sit second in the table behind the impressive Marseille, however off the pitch it has been nothing but despair. No less than 11 first team players departed the Stade ...

Ligue 1 Team of the Season at the Halfway Stage

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Ligue 1 Team of the Season at the Halfway Stage As we approach 2012 the only players in Europe's top 5 leagues who aren't enjoying the festive break are plying their trade in the Premier League, so in the meantime we analyse the best XIs at the halfway stage of the season elsewhere.First up we look across the channel at France's Ligue 1, where PS...

Eerie Similarities Make PSG-Lyon Clash Tough to Call

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Eerie Similarities Make PSG-Lyon Clash Tough to Call Undoubtedly the biggest game in France's Ligue 1 this weekend sees the division’s top 2 sides go head-to-head in a mouth-watering encounter.After 8 games Lyon and PSG are tied at the top in every sense having won 5, drawn twice and lost once each. Not only that but both team's have an identica...

WhoScored Ligue 1 All Star XI - Gameweek 6

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WhoScored Ligue 1 All Star XI - Gameweek 6 Lyon condemned Marseille to another defeat as they maintained their unbeaten record at the top of the Ligue 1 table. Valenciennes record their first win of the season with a home hammering of Gijon, PSG laboured to an away draw at Evian and Sochaux grabbed a valuable point at champions Lille. Nice a...

Maxime Gonalons - He Has Gon-A-Long Way

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Maxime Gonalons - He Has Gon-A-Long Way In the past fortnight it has been a very interesting time in the Rhone-Alps region of France. At Saint-Etienne mystery grew over the status of midfielder Steed Malbranque which ended with his contract being terminated and then over at their rivals Olympique Lyon it has been a busy week with the clos...