Zapping Foot National Ligue 1: top 10 top scorers for the 2020-2021 season
Olympique Lyonnais lost big this Sunday evening. Beaten by Lille at Groupama Stadium as part of the 34th day of Ligue 1 (2-3), the Rhone club is excluded from the title race. Relegated to six points behind the Lille leader, OL also abandoned the Coupe de France last week, after their defeat in the quarter-finals against AS Monaco (0-2). This same AS Monaco that Rudi Garcia and his troop will meet again on Sunday, on behalf of the 35th day. One last chance, surely, to grab the podium. However, the Gones season could take a whole new turn. Still in the Champions League race, Paris Saint-Germain, which is preparing to face Manchester City in the semi-finals, could save OL’s 2020-2021 fiscal year. This would require a combination of circumstances, but let’s imagine.
A great first for French football
In the event of success in the Champions League on May 29, PSG, which would also raise the first cup with big ears in its history, would at the same time obtain a direct qualifying ticket for the next edition. If he validates his participation through the championship by finishing in the first two places, this ticket would be redistributed to the champion of the eleventh nation in the UEFA index, that is to say Turkey. Second in Ligue 1, the capital club is still a long way from ensuring its own succession, ahead of a catchy LOSC and pursued by an AS Monaco in full swing. OL are ultimately only five points away.
Thus, and if PSG finishes third in the championship and the winner of the C3 already has his ticket in C1, Paris will be certain to avoid the preliminary rounds and the vacant place normally allocated to the third of L1 will benefit either to the third of the championship of Portugal is to the champion of Turkey. But it is by finishing in fourth place in Ligue 1 that Neymar, Mbappé and company would do Lyon’s business. With a view to a coronation in the Champions League and a fourth place in the final standings, Paris would qualify in C1, with the first two of L1, and the third too, at least in the 3rd preliminary round, and even directly according to the identity of the winner of the C3. For the first time in its history, France would then have four French representatives in the Champions League, and Lyon would give a completely different consistency to its 2020-2021 season. To the Gones to do the job in the league and support PSG in C1!
League 1 standings
Ligue 1 result
Champions League standings
Champions League result
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