Still in the west, the Angevin club makes much less noise but remains, day after day, firmly established in the first half of the table (6th, 22 pts).
The scratching point of our championship, the SCO managed to hang a promising draw on Friday night on the lawn of Lens, formidable since the start of the season.
The return from suspension of Angelo Fulgini has done the men of Gerald Baticle the greatest good, who will host Monaco on Wednesday.
The underperformance: Lille and Monaco struggling
Eminent members of the top 4 last season and brilliant on the European scene, Lille and Monegasques are struggling to assume their rank this season in Ligue 1.
Worse, they have not won a championship game in November.
Thirteenth with 18 points, the reigning French champion stomped again at home against Nantes (1-1), Jonathan David stumbling over Alban Lafont for the victory penalty. His last victory in Ligue 1 dates back to October 3 against OM!
The record is not much better for the club of the Principality (9th, 20 pts), hooked to Louis-II by Strasbourg on the same score and lacking offensive efficiency.
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The player: Jérémy Le Douaron (Brest)
Three goals in two matches: this is the prolific ratio of the Brest striker, who was not always the first choice of Olivier Dall’Oglio and then of Michel Der Zakarian.
Author of a magnificent goal in the top corner last Sunday against Lens (4-0), Le Douaron scored a saving double to overthrow the Girondins de Bordeaux (2-1), opportunist on a bad recovery from Ricardo Mangas then on a service in the perfect depth of Franck Honorat.
Thanks to the great form of its attacking players, the Stade Brestois remains on four straight victories, best series in its history in the elite, and leaves the red zone, after having been a red lantern for a long time.
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The number: 11
Against Saint-Etienne, Paris Saint-Germain conceded the opening goal for the 11th time in Ligue 1 in 2021, their highest total in a calendar year since 2012 (also 11). Proof that despite an exceptional balance sheet and a five-star recruitment, the capital club is less sovereign in the game this season.
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The sentence: Pascal Gastien, Clermont coach
Naturally rather placid, the Clermont coach was particularly upset after the fifth consecutive defeat of his team, which conceded a new goal at the very end of the game in Reims (1-0).
“It’s a bad habit. I’m angry, I’m not happy with the outcome of this match. On goal, it’s a monumental placement error which means that we do not go to the end while we We gave everything. We had a good game, we controlled the whole first half, we created chances, but we have to score more than two goals to hope to win a match, so it’s complicated . “
To its advantage at the start of the season, Clermont Foot now finds itself barragist, four days from the end of the first leg.
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