Tops
- Lille still and always a money-time specialist
It might not be a weekend LOSC will want to remember, either. Against Montpellier, the Lille could not do better than a draw, but snatched it in the last minutes thanks to the goal of Luiz Araujo in the 85th. Already scorers in the last moments of the meeting last week in Metz, the Mastiffs have made money-time their trademark, with significant successes gleaned at the end of the match, as against Marseille during the 28th day (2- 0). It’s simple, Galtier’s men have won 10 points thanks to goals in the last ten minutes of the games this season. The mark of a future champion?
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- Doku has been forgiven
He had not set foot in Ligue 1 for two days, the fault of an avoidable and stupid red card obtained in the meeting against Metz a month ago. Jérémy Doku signed his return in the best possible way with Rennes, opening the scoring on Angers with a very nice goal just before half-time. Very restless, as always, but finally effective in front of goal, the Belgian greatly contributed to the victory of his family (0-3), and may have found its click. In any case, he expressed his joy at returning to the Breton group after the meeting: “I missed it when I watched them on TV. I wanted to be there, in the field, to help the team … And there I am happy to be back on the field “. When Doku tries to apologize, he does it right!
Jéremy Doku, goalscorer in Angers
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- Lirola, the “party” … sur le terrain
Pol Lirola is talking about him again. In good this time. After being sanctioned by his club for participating in an underground party in Catalonia with his teammate Leonardo Balerdi, the Spanish side redeemed himself in the best possible way on the field against Lorient (3-2). First by scoring the equalizing goal of his own to open his counter under the Olympian jersey. Then, and above all, by signing a double with a cross strike in extra time to give OM a victory on the wire. What to make forgive his Catalan escapade with the Marseille supporters.
Dijon will certainly not stay in Ligue 1, however, but he finally won his first success of the season at home, against Nice (2-0). The most recent dated back to March 2020 and a victory against… Toulouse, which is currently fighting to recover. The DFCO ended, at the same time, its streak of 12 defeats, the worst in the history of the French championship. First Dijon hero on Sunday, Fouad Chafik took the opportunity to score his first goal in Ligue 1, from the height of his 34 years. By making the break from the penalty spot, Yassine Benzia for his part scored his first goal in the top flight for three years. A date to be checked for more than one reason, therefore.
Dijon – Ligue 1
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- Depay is also irresistible
The Flops
- PSG-ASSE, allegory of lack of concentration
The cliché is well known: teams must be very vigilant just after scoring, because this is where slacking tends to happen. During PSG-Saint-Etienne on Sunday, the maxim was verified in proportions flirting with caricature. The Stéphanois, very serious and diligent during the first 78 minutes, lost the thread after opening the scoring. Surely persuaded to have done the hardest part, the Greens suffered the equalization of Kylian Mbappé directly on the start, before seeing the same Mbappé score the goal of 2-1 less than 10 minutes later.
From then on, it was the Parisians who saw themselves too beautiful, and considerably relaxed the pressure, which Hamouma did not deprive himself of to come and cool the Parc des Princes in additional time. Until this third Parisian goal, therefore, at the end of the stoppage of play, after yet another “concentration error”, as the Stéphanois scorer Bouanga conceded after the meeting. When we say that we must be wary …
- Brest, things are not moving forward
Where did the seductive Brest of the first part of the season go? Regularly spectacular and capable of annoying the big guys just a few months ago, Olivier Dall’Oglio’s men are more struggling in 2021. Against Lens, Steve Mounié’s teammates went on a fifth game without a win in the league, equaling their longest streak this season. More generally, the content is less exciting. As indicated by Opta, the Brestois have thus scored five of their last eight league goals from a set piece, after having scored the previous nine in the game. Yannick Cahuzac’s goal against his camp was also only the second from Brest in his last four meetings.
- Nice, too early to “put on the flip flops”
Nice had never chained six games without defeat in L1 this season. And it seemed unlikely that this series would end with the Dijon red lantern. But the Aiglons ended up leaving their feathers there (2-0), conceding their first defeat in the league in nearly two months. Without their defeat being questionable. Too sufficient, the Niçois did not give themselves the means to obtain another result. “We felt a relaxation at the start of the week after the draw against Reims, admitted an angry Morgan Schneiderlin after the meeting. We have two choices: either we put on our flip-flops and we respect no one or the club, or we wake up for the last five games of the season “. Answer next Sunday against Montpellier.
The referees had a heavy hand Sunday afternoon. Or the actors of the “League of Talents” displayed a lot of aggression, it is according to. The “festival” of red cards – six in total – reached its peak in Brest, with no less than… four exclusions. The coach of the Sang et Or, Franck Haise, was the first to leave the lawn for words which obviously did not please the man in yellow… but which remain to be proven. Then Steven Fortes joined the locker room, followed by his teammate Simon Banza, excluded at the same time as the Brestois Jean-Lucas, warned twice in three minutes. On the Bordeaux side, Tom Lacoux let six minutes pass between his two warnings. In Nîmes, it was Strasbourg’s Frédéric Guilbert who was sanctioned upon returning from the locker room for a poorly controlled intervention. A red Sunday.
Frédéric Guilbert excluded against Nîmes
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