“Hello, it seems that there is an error in the Ligue 1 classification at Nice level. According to this table, this club has 15 wins at 3 points and 5 draws at one point, making a total of 50 points and not 49 as shown.” On the morning of March 8, a loyal reader of Provence alerted us, by e-mail, about what he believed to be a blunder. He had omitted the sanction imposed on the Riviera club following the “game of shame” on August 22.
One point, that’s all, it is often said. But above all it’s a lot… 28 matches played: 15 wins, 6 draws, 7 losses. This is now the balance sheet of the OGCN on this Sunday, March 20, ten games before the end of the season. In the Ligue 1 standings, the Aiglons only have 50 points. Or one less than the total obtained sportingly on the ground (51). They are therefore not 2nd but 3rd, behind OM.
It is regularly repeated that in very high level football, the difference is made in small details. This is essential: at the end of the 2021-22 financial year, it could be extremely expensive.
One point was the final gap between the Lyonnais of Bruno Genesio (3rd) and the Marseillais of Rudi Garcia (4th) in 2017-18. Ditto in 1998-99 between the Bordelais of Elie Baup (1st) and the men of Rolland Courbis (2nd). While OM are still under threat… of a one-point withdrawal after the incidents of September 22 in Angers, the slightest prank in the stands is to be avoided this evening at the Vélodrome: it would be tantamount to being hara-kiri.
Engaged in an already very complicated race for qualification for the Champions League (an economically vital competition), the Olympians do not need that.
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