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Team Focus: Changes Needed if Bordeaux are to Return to Former Glories

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Team Focus: Changes Needed if Bordeaux are to Return to Former Glories Joueurs sans fierté, Virage Sud deserté. Few Ligue 1 goals this season have been scored against such an uncomfortable backdrop as Cédric Yambéré's recent winner for Bordeaux versus Guingamp. The 2009 champions should be full of optimism right now, still enjoying th...

Team Focus: Antonetti’s Instant Impact at Lille

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Team Focus: Antonetti’s Instant Impact at Lille “The change of coach doesn’t explain it,” said Lille’s Sofiane Boufal on Saturday night, struggling to put his finger on just how his team’s fortunes have taken a U-turn in the space of four days. “We’ve always worked hard.” There’s working, thou...

Match Focus: Marseille and Monaco Lay Bare Both Strengths and Shortcomings

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Match Focus: Marseille and Monaco Lay Bare Both Strengths and Shortcomings “Lots of goals, for nothing,” read the headline in Monday’s L’Equipe. A harsh summary, perhaps, of Sunday night’s thrilling final game of the Ligue 1 weekend, especially if you value entertaining football, but it was also a reminder that the passing of 12 months has mad...

Team Focus: PSG Show Versatility On Tough Weekend

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Team Focus: PSG Show Versatility On Tough Weekend “We would have liked to do something else (other than playing),” said Paris Saint-Germain coach Laurent Blanc after Saturday’s win at Lorient. Despite that, he was at a loss to know what that something was. “We represent Paris, the team of the capital. We have to do what we k...

Match Focus: Lyon Finally Step Up On Historic Night

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Match Focus: Lyon Finally Step Up On Historic Night His 150th appearance in Ligue 1. The final derby between Olympique Lyonnais and Saint Etienne at Stade de Gerland. Never let it be said that Alexandre Lacazette has anything less than a perfect sense of timing. “I lived out a dream,” the Lyon striker said after hitting the hat-trick whic...

Team Focus: Gazélec Ajaccio's Historic Moment is a Shock For On-fire Nice

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Team Focus: Gazélec Ajaccio's Historic Moment is a Shock For On-fire Nice “N’attendez pas la pluie pour mouiller le maillot” - ‘don’t wait for the rain to get your shirt soaking wet’, says the banner behind the goal at Gazélec Ajaccio’s modest Stade Ange-Casanova. If Corsica can be climatically inhospitable at this time of ...

Team Focus: Caen Flying High in Ligue 1’s Season of the Underdog

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Team Focus: Caen Flying High in Ligue 1’s Season of the Underdog Habitually, the post-match treadmill for a head coach is meticulously planned. Back to the dressing room for an initial debrief with the players, then it’s onto the main press conference with waiting journalists. The television cameras get their footage either before or after, before the away ...

Player Focus: Diarra's Recent France Outing Marks Impressive Return to the Fore

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Player Focus: Diarra's Recent France Outing Marks Impressive Return to the Fore Lassana Diarra’s 34th French cap on Thursday night can certainly be considered a return from international wilderness. The midfielder’s start against Armenia was the first time he turned out for France since the October 12th 2010. It was almost five years to the day that Diarra last feat...

Team Focus: Angers’ Dream Start to the Season Continues

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Team Focus: Angers’ Dream Start to the Season Continues “I have intelligent players who fought against human nature,” said Angers coach Stéphane Moulin after Saturday’s win over Bastia. “There could have been a sense of relaxing or decompressing after the feat we managed in Marseille (winning 2-1 at Vélodrome last we...

Player Focus: Advanced Position Giving Di María Wings in Paris

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Player Focus: Advanced Position Giving Di María Wings in Paris It is fair to say that it is difficult to imagine two more sharply contrasting on-pitch personalities than Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Ángel Di María. Both may be extravagantly talented, but while one tops his fireworks off with bombast and bravado, the other is more subtle, spindly and elu...