Brest regains second place in Ligue 1 by defeating Lorient 1-0

Paris. Brest was able to maintain second place in Ligue 1 thanks to its 1-0 victory over another Breton team, Lorient, this Sunday on matchday 27 of the French championship.

On Saturday, Monaco had provisionally placed second by winning 5-2 in Metz and putting itself on 49 points, two ahead of Brest, which after its victory has added 50 points and makes the club from the Principality return to third place.

In any case, both are well positioned to qualify for the next Champions League, an objective that the first four in the tournament will achieve, although the fourth classified will have to go through the qualifying phase to reach the group round.

That fourth classified is Lille, three points behind Monaco and four behind Brest.

However, all of them seem far from the possibility of fighting for the title due to the great advantage of Paris Saint-Germain, which has 9 points ahead of its closest pursuer, Brest, before its visit this Sunday to Marseille (7) in the French soccer classic.

In Lorient, the only goal for Brest and the game was scored in the final moments by Romain de Castillo (minute 86), who had become a father just a few hours before. The other protagonist of the duel was goalkeeper Marco Bizot, who repelled Lorient’s numerous chances (16th, playoff position for permanence).

“He has practically not slept in the last two nights because he has been with his wife,” said Brest coach, Eric Roy, about Romain Del Castillo, who had started the game as a substitute. “We knew that even if he played only half an hour he was capable of making a difference,” he said.

He who seems to lose pace in the race for Champions It is Nice (5), which remains planted on 43 points, three behind fourth place Lille, after its disappointing 2-1 home defeat against Nantes (14), which thus takes oxygen.

It was a perfect return to the Nantes bench for Antoine Kombouaré, who was appointed in the middle of this month as coach of a team he already managed between 2021 and 2023.

In the race for permanence, Montpellier (12) also took an important step forward by winning 2-0 in Le Havre (15).

The one that seems increasingly doomed is Clermont, bottom team and which was defeated 3-0 by Toulouse, where the Swiss Vincent Sierro shone with a double.