In April, PSG evolves on a wire and its competitors know it well. It’s now or never to falter the leader, battered like never before after two defeats in a row in the league.
The Sang et Or benefit from a good shooting window, from Friday against the poorly ranked Strasbourg, the first not to be relegated.
In the event of victory, they would be only three points behind Paris, traveling on Saturday (9:00 p.m.) to Nice and which they will face in ten days. They would also put pressure on Marseille. Tied on points with them before the 30th day, OM travel to Lorient on Sunday (8:45 p.m.).
The temperature is rising in Artois but Franck Haise wants to keep a cool head.
“We are not going to draw any plan on the comet”, tempered the Lensois coach when talking about the title, while Lens remains on a series of four wins and two draws.
Lille to Angers
At home, the Lensois can count on the unconditional and incandescent support of Bollaert-Delelis, where they have lost only once in fourteen league matches this season.
This house advantage and a look at the standings place the Sang et Or as big favorites in the clash of the Racings. But watch out for RC Strasbourg, capable in these last three matches of standing up to OM (2-2), beating Auxerre 2-0 in a crucial duel for maintaining, and scoring three goals on the lawn of Monaco, despite the 4-3 loss.
“This weekend they scored three goals in Monaco, they can even score more. They make certain mistakes that they pay for but they jostled this team in sequences”, retains Franck Haise.
The Alsatians are in a very difficult situation when approaching the home stretch of a season with four runs in Ligue 2. Auxerre, first relegated, has the same number of points as them before going to challenge the front -last Ajaccio, Sunday (3 p.m.).
Lille will have the opportunity to secure its fifth place on Saturday (5:00 p.m.) on the ground of Angers, the red lantern completely unhooked in the classification and which has a foot and a half in Ligue 2.
Sunday will open at 1:00 p.m. with a match between Lyon, eliminated on Wednesday by Nantes in the Coupe de France semi-final, and Rennes, which slipped to sixth place last weekend Program for the 30th day of Ligue 1:
Friday
(21h00) Lens – Strasbourg
SATURDAY
(17h00) Angers – Lille
(21h00) Nice – Paris SG
Sunday
(1:00 p.m.) Lyon – Rennes
(3:00 p.m.) AC Ajaccio – Auxerre
Montpellier – Toulouse
Reims – Brest
Troyes – Clermont
(5:05 p.m.) Nantes – Monaco
(8:45 p.m.) Lorient – Marseille
Classement: Pts J G N P bp bc dif
1. Paris SG 66 29 21 3 5 68 29 39
2. Lens 60 29 17 9 3 48 21 27
3. Marseille 60 29 18 6 5 54 29 25
4. Monaco 57 29 17 6 6 61 40 21
5. Lille 52 29 15 7 7 54 37 17
6. Rennes 50 29 15 5 9 47 30 17
7. Reims 46 29 11 13 5 39 28 11
8. Nice 45 29 11 12 6 38 26 12
9. Lyon 44 29 12 8 9 44 32 12
10. Lorient 44 29 12 8 9 42 40 2
11. Montpellier 37 29 11 4 14 45 48 -3
12. Clermont 37 29 10 7 12 29 41 -12
13. Toulouse 35 29 10 5 14 44 51 -7
14.Nantes 30 29 6 12 11 30 40 -10
15. Brest 27 29 6 9 14 33 47 -14
16. Strasbourg 26 29 5 11 13 37 50 -13
17. Auxerre 26 29 6 8 15 24 51 -27
18.Troyes 21 29 4 9 16 38 62 -24
19. AC Ajaccio 21 29 6 3 20 21 52 -31
20. Angers 11 29 2 5 22 22 64 -42
Editor’s note: The first two are qualified directly for the group stage of the Champions League. The third will play the 3rd preliminary round. The fourth is qualified for the group stage of the Europa League. The fifth is qualified for the play-offs for access to the group stage of the Europa League Conference.
If the winner of the Coupe de France is classified among the first five, the fifth is qualified for the group stage of the Europa League and the sixth for the play-offs for access to the group stage of the Europa League Conference.
The last 4 are relegated to Ligue 2.
