King Paris or Prince Monaco, the mythical OM or the dull Greens: the Pink City club has a high percentage of meeting an L1 team. The ax will fall this Tuesday evening. Thematic appetizer.
Two out of three chances. Or, precisely, more than 66% of probabilities of rubbing against a club of the elite. It’s arithmetic – with 10 Ligue 1 out of the 15 other teams qualified in 8is – for Toulouse who knows what to expect, in the evening, at the time of the verdict of the bowls. The ceremony will take place before the kick-off of the last 16e final: the North derby with the Sang et Or who host the Mastiffs at 9 p.m.
The table, detailed review
Ten L1 (Brest, Lens or Lille as well, Marseille, Monaco, Montpellier, Nantes, Nice, Paris-SG, Reims, Saint-Étienne), 3 L2 (Amiens SC, SC Bastia, Nancy) and 2 N2 (Bergerac, Versailles) make up the cast. Here is for the detail. Ray predictions, even if we are not Madame Soleil, we can legitimately think, without offending her, that one of the two Petits-Poucets playing in the fourth division, Bergerac in this case [puisque l’autre N2, Versailles, l’a emporté avant-hier 4-0], would be the most acceptable opponent on paper. And, conversely, the ogre Paris-SG an unplayable turn.
Home, please!
Even so, Philippe Montanier’s number one wish remains to receive. Which, by the way, “restricts” the range of possibilities to residents of the first and second divisions. Otherwise formulated: this scenario excludes the two amateur clubs because, now in force, the rule which stipulates that from two levels of difference the meeting takes place at the hierarchically lower formation – whatever the order of the draw.
In January, it’s over
In the meantime, one thing is certain: by overcoming Cannes / N3 on Sunday afternoon on the Coast (1-0), the Violets have closed the only hole that their January calendar had left free: the weekend of 29 and 30. Also, unlike previous editions which took place “normally” (that is to say outside of Covid), the Coupe de France has not scheduled another round in this first month of the year. Especially Tuesday or Wednesday. This also allows, by the way, to have only one deadline in the week (for the record, TEF had played 3 games in 8 days before the truce). And, therefore, to be able to align its typical team. The technician téféciste did it on the Croisette, composing his best XI of the moment.
In the cup as in the league?
Notwithstanding the goalkeeper affected by the rotation, the other 10 were all the incumbents of the post. Behind, while Sylla left for CAN was replaced by his understudy Diarra, Rouault signed his comeback; an undefeated axial when he made the pair with Nicolaisen (3 wins and a draw in 4 games with that of Sunday). In the midfield, the trio Dejaegere – Spierings – van den Boomen is the one who scours the lawns of Ligue 2. While, in front, considering the absence of Ngoumou, Ado and Ratao framing Rhys Healey is the current treble whose goal confessed remains to martyr the defenses of the championship.
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