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Team Focus: Stylish Nice Once Again Shine on the Road

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Team Focus: Stylish Nice Once Again Shine on the Road They may be separated by a 250km ferry ride, but when Nice and Bastia meet, it’s a derby. That is the feeling on both the Côte d’Azur and the northeastern coast of Corsica and accordingly, sparks tend to fly when the pair come together. After some unsavoury incidents surrounding re...

Team Focus: Are Rennes Finally On Their Way Up?

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Team Focus: Are Rennes Finally On Their Way Up? Never judge any team on the first day of their season. Stade Rennais, to widespread surprise, are the latest to prove that cliché true. When they were beaten 2-1 at Bastia in their season opener, you’d have given coach Philippe Montanier little chance of hanging onto his job until Chris...

Player Focus: Returning Playmakers Can Light Up Ligue 1

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Player Focus: Returning Playmakers Can Light Up Ligue 1 If there is a sense of a talent drain from Ligue 1 - at least from middle-ranking clubs like Nantes and Lorient - in the face of the Premier League’s riches, then the return of some familiar faces is providing a welcome counterbalance to that. This week, Mathieu Valbuena completed his return t...

Player Focus: Should PSG Reward Cavani With a Starring Role?

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Player Focus: Should PSG Reward Cavani With a Starring Role? When Qatari investors took control of Paris Saint-Germain in 2011, they needed a marquee signing to lay down a real statement of intent at the Parc de Princes, and in doing so, turned to Zlatan Ibrahimovic 12 months later. The mercurial Swede has been on a pedestal far beyond the reach of his Parisi...

WhoScored Quiz: Ligue 1 2014/15 Round-up

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Test yourself ahead of the upcoming 2015/16 Ligue 1 campaign with 10 questions on the season gone by......

League Focus: Monaco Well-placed to Net Ligue 1’s Coveted Third Place

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League Focus: Monaco Well-placed to Net Ligue 1’s Coveted Third Place Fans of final day suspense will probably feel let down following the 37th, and penultimate, round of Ligue 1 action. Paris Saint-Germain officially eliminated the minuscule doubts that lingered over their third straight title win by beating Montpellier. Meanwhile, last week’s subjects Evian no...

Team Focus: Brilliant Benezet Sums Up Evian’s Predicament

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Team Focus: Brilliant Benezet Sums Up Evian’s Predicament There are still six points to play for, insisted Evian Thonon-Gaillard’s coach Pascal Dupraz after Saturday’s defeat to Reims. A sortie for such a cliché, inevitably laden with impending doom, only compounded a crushing loss that leaves the Annecy-based club staring relegation to ...

League Focus: Relegation Battle Tightens on Ligue 1’s Binary Sunday

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League Focus: Relegation Battle Tightens on Ligue 1’s Binary Sunday 1-0, 1-0, 0-1, 1-0, 0-1, 0-0. The Sunday afternoon multiplex in Ligue 1 might have looked unappetising viewing on paper – with the final five being played simultaneously, after the Saturday schedule was cleared for the Coupe de la Ligue final – but there was no shortage of tension.At the...

Player Focus: Astounding Amavi Continuing Steady Rise to Stardom

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Player Focus: Astounding Amavi Continuing Steady Rise to Stardom Monaco may have secured the bragging rights following their 1-0 win at Nice in Friday’s Derby de la Côte d’Azur, but one player who deserved to exit the field with his head held high for Les Aiglons was young Jordan Amavi. Awarded the WhoScored man of the match award - his 5th of t...

Team Focus: Analysing the Correlation Between Possession & Defensive Organisation

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Team Focus: Analysing the Correlation Between Possession & Defensive Organisation When discussing the concept of possession football there will always be those for and against the ideals it propagates. How often do you hear generally uninformed 'pundits' use the phrase I don't really like statistics, but… before highlighting a side's possession figures to illustrate their ...