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Player Focus: Should Hatem Ben Arfa go to Euro 2016?

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Player Focus: Should Hatem Ben Arfa go to Euro 2016? Some things never change. As Hatem Ben Arfa responded to questions in the media area of the Allianz Riviera after his match winning performance on Friday night, the Nice midfielder was interrupted by a tap on the shoulder. It was from the hand of Saïd Chabane, the president of Angers, whose tea...

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: 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...

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...

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...

Player Focus: Amavi the Latest Product of the French Full-Back Conveyor Belt

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Player Focus: Amavi the Latest Product of the French Full-Back Conveyor Belt Consistency seems hard to come by in Ligue 1 at present, and one of the sides that are struggling to string any run of results together are Nice, perhaps now middling out after hugely contrasting domestic campaigns.Les Aiglons were the surprise package of the 2012/13 season, finishing in fourth. How...

Player Focus: Pole's Position Set to Come Under Threat from Ospina at Arsenal

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Player Focus: Pole's Position Set to Come Under Threat from Ospina at Arsenal Most French football fans were damning of the decision to hand Salvatore Sirigu the Ligue 1 Goalkeeper of the Season award at the end of the 2013/14 campaign. The Italian had another solid season with a PSG side tested considerably less than any other side in the division, conceding the fewest goals...

League Focus: Three Pivotal Matches in Ligue 1’s Battle at the Bottom

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League Focus: Three Pivotal Matches in Ligue 1’s Battle at the Bottom Montpellier v MonacoThis should read as a meeting of some promise, with the 2012 champions taking on stylish, nouveau riche visitors. In fact, we have two teams with wildly divergent aims. Montpellier have lost the fewest matches in the bottom nine (6) but are hovering above the drop zone, with only...

Team Focus: Brave Nice Take First Steps to Recovery

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Team Focus: Brave Nice Take First Steps to Recovery Nobody tends to say that Claude Puel sides lack commitment and in that sense, Nice are a case in point. “On Saturday night against Sochaux, Nice played with eleven players,” wrote Monday’s L’Equipe, “but with two players on one leg, or almost.”Their problems were ...