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Match Report: Lacazette Leads Hungry Reserves to Impressive France Win

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Match Report: Lacazette Leads Hungry Reserves to Impressive France Win It had to happen somewhere, sometime, but here? That Alexandre Lacazette’s first goal for France was scored at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, the home of Lyon’s bitter rivals Saint Etienne (he was accordingly booed when he touched the ball in the early stages of Sunday’s game with De...

Team Focus: Arribagé Puts the Fight Back in Toulouse

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Team Focus: Arribagé Puts the Fight Back in Toulouse It was, fittingly, an emotional end to an emotional week in Haute-Garonne, Toulouse. After coach Alain Casanova’s near-seven-year spell as coach was brought to an end on Monday with Téfécé mired in the bottom three, the feeling was clear. If they couldn’t react after...

Team Focus: Wide Men Keep Saint Etienne’s Euro Dream Alive

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Team Focus: Wide Men Keep Saint Etienne’s Euro Dream Alive “They aren’t combinations we’ve worked on; it’s more about feeling.” Romain Hamouma’s summary of his Saint Etienne team’s attacking verve at Metz on Saturday was almost as encouraging for the future as the goals themselves that sunk Ligue 1’s bottom cl...

Team Focus: Gladbach Flying High but Lacking the Expected Sparkle

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Team Focus: Gladbach Flying High but Lacking the Expected Sparkle “We’re happy to be called a top team,” said Borussia Mönchengladbach’s sporting director Max Eberl after Saturday’s draw at Mainz. “But a top team brings the thing home.” Eberl’s mixed feelings were understandable after an early evening that was h...

Team Focus: Bordeaux’s European Ambitions Undone by Lack of Punch

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Team Focus: Bordeaux’s European Ambitions Undone by Lack of Punch “You didn’t understand it? Me neither.” The final act of Bordeaux’s deflating home draw with Reims visibly infuriated their coach Willy Sagnol, both on the touchline and afterwards in his press conference, as substitute Grégory Sertic ploughed a direct free-kick into t...

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...

Team Focus: Paris Saint-Germain Hit Problems Ahead of Chelsea Clash

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Team Focus: Paris Saint-Germain Hit Problems Ahead of Chelsea Clash It was “an extraordinary scenario”, as Laurent Blanc put it after the game or, according to L’Equipe, a “catastrophic” one. As Paris Saint-Germain enter one of the pivotal weeks of their season, matters that seemed in hand give the increasing impression of slipping from...

Team Focus: Rennes' Green Shoots of Recovery Frustrate Marseille

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Team Focus: Rennes' Green Shoots of Recovery Frustrate Marseille If you had to choose a Ligue 1 coach to babysit your kids, who would it be? There are plenty of good candidates; Hubert Fournier allows his young charges at Lyon to tread the line between precociousness and sensibility, Marcelo Bielsa’s tough love approach has worked well for Marseille (despit...

Player Focus: Fabulous Féret Rolls Back the Years as Caen Start Climbing

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Player Focus: Fabulous Féret Rolls Back the Years as Caen Start Climbing It wasn’t exactly a vintage weekend in Ligue 1. The final count of 10 goals across the games represented the lowest collective total since the 32nd round of the 2006/07 season.As snow fell, frost bit and all and sundry complained about the state of the pitches, it wasn’t all gloom, thoug...

Player Focus: How Far Can Brilliant Beauvue Go?

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Player Focus: How Far Can Brilliant Beauvue Go? I don't want to talk about myself but about the team because, without them, I wouldn't be the player I am. After another sparkling display for Guingamp against Lorient on Saturday evening, Claudio Beauvue was again the epitome of modesty as the now-customary post-match gaggle of journalists gathered...