Olympique Marseille just does not look like a Champions League team anymore.
They won't make it out of this year's Champions League group stage, and, if they keep going like this, they won't be there, at all, next year.
The team from the south of France had a chance to get within one point of leaders Monaco (and PSG), but they failed to get any points from Nice.
As it stands, they stay fourth, trailing Lille, on goal difference, with 17 points.
Nice also has 17 points, but worse goal difference than Marseille, still. (They would have needed a 3-0 win to jump over O.M.)
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Friday, 18 October 2013
Saturday, 24 August 2013
First Really Notable Effort from Reims in a Long Time
Reims' period of glory, at top level in French football, has long passed. The last time they won the French title was in 1962.
And yet Stade Reims holds six national title wins, only one less than Olympique Lyonnais.
But there was no doubt, however, that Lyon was the favourite to win the encounter on this third matchday of Ligue 1.
Especially because Lyon was leading in the standings, and had basically breezed past Nice and Sochaux on matchdays 1 and 2.
Reims, though, proved a much harder nut to crack.
They defended well, played the counter-attack card properly, and were lucky as well.
Yes, luck must be acknowledged because Lyon had a penalty, and thus could have scored in the 72nd minute. But Grenier missed, and the score remained 0-0.
Then, only 4 minutes later, Fortes scored an extremely spectacular diagonal goal from the edge of the penalty area, and that was all in terms of goals.
Reims now has the same number of points as Lyon, while Marseille remains the only team with maximum points (pending Saint-Etienne's match at Lille tomorrow).
Highlights:
And yet Stade Reims holds six national title wins, only one less than Olympique Lyonnais.
But there was no doubt, however, that Lyon was the favourite to win the encounter on this third matchday of Ligue 1.
Especially because Lyon was leading in the standings, and had basically breezed past Nice and Sochaux on matchdays 1 and 2.
Reims, though, proved a much harder nut to crack.
They defended well, played the counter-attack card properly, and were lucky as well.
Yes, luck must be acknowledged because Lyon had a penalty, and thus could have scored in the 72nd minute. But Grenier missed, and the score remained 0-0.
Then, only 4 minutes later, Fortes scored an extremely spectacular diagonal goal from the edge of the penalty area, and that was all in terms of goals.
Reims now has the same number of points as Lyon, while Marseille remains the only team with maximum points (pending Saint-Etienne's match at Lille tomorrow).
Highlights:
Thursday, 6 June 2013
France - UEFA Club Competitions Participants - 2013-2014
Paris Saint-Germain --> Champions League Group Stage
Olympique Marseille --> Champions League Group Stage
Olympique Lyon(nais) --> Champions League Third Qualifying Round
OGC Nice --> Europa League Play-off Round
Saint-Etienne --> Europa League Third Qualifying Round
Girondins Bordeaux --> Europa League Group Stage
Olympique Marseille --> Champions League Group Stage
Olympique Lyon(nais) --> Champions League Third Qualifying Round
OGC Nice --> Europa League Play-off Round
Saint-Etienne --> Europa League Third Qualifying Round
Girondins Bordeaux --> Europa League Group Stage
Saturday, 1 December 2012
PSG -- Tsk, tsk!
PSG did it again. They lost to Nice.
The Parisians were looking better than the team from the south of France for most of the match, but then, with 13 minutes left, Eric Bautheac put the outsiders in front, after atrocious PSG defending in their own penalty box.
Ibrahimovic's genius free kick tied the score, five minutes later, but that proved to amount to nothing because Eysseric volleyed the ball into the net from close range, after a Bautheac cross, four minutes later. And Paris Saint-Germain again conceded defeat by two goals to one.
But the worst thing is that now PSG is five points away from top spot, because, three hours prior to this, Lyon had succeeded in winning again, 1-0 at home against Montpellier.
Maybe Ancelotti is not the best man for the job, in Paris, after all.
(No wonder speculations keep popping up, with the name "Jose Mourinho" at the center of it all.)
See highlights here.
The Parisians were looking better than the team from the south of France for most of the match, but then, with 13 minutes left, Eric Bautheac put the outsiders in front, after atrocious PSG defending in their own penalty box.
Ibrahimovic's genius free kick tied the score, five minutes later, but that proved to amount to nothing because Eysseric volleyed the ball into the net from close range, after a Bautheac cross, four minutes later. And Paris Saint-Germain again conceded defeat by two goals to one.
But the worst thing is that now PSG is five points away from top spot, because, three hours prior to this, Lyon had succeeded in winning again, 1-0 at home against Montpellier.
Maybe Ancelotti is not the best man for the job, in Paris, after all.
(No wonder speculations keep popping up, with the name "Jose Mourinho" at the center of it all.)
See highlights here.
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