Status quo for the quartet

To be honest, following a day with two times five games, it’s not easy being at home. It’s even more difficult when I’m on the set at Canal. So I’m going to focus on the leading teams for the simple reason that these are the only games I have been able to follow. And I will attack with Lille, who delivered a really impressive match in Bordeaux. For a long time, the Girondins were solid and brought out the ball well from behind – which they are doing better and better – but the problem is always the same: in front, there is nothing. It’s complicated to get results just by relying on defense.

We saw the Gasset team give way against the course of the game in Lyon and last night, Yazici’s opening scoring on a super overflow from Bamba comes in a period when the two teams were on an equal footing. After that, Lille’s power and play made the difference, with two more goals from Weah and David. The LOSC therefore maintains its lead over its pursuers and as much we could say in recent weeks that Lille won without convincing, as much on this match, they won AND convinced. It’s very encouraging for the rest of the Northerners season.

I saw almost nothing of the Lyon match but from what I could hear and from what the score says, it is a small victory for the Garcia players, obtained on a goal scored by Paqueta, his second in the Rhone jersey. Even if it is true that Dijon has found a form of defensive solidity, the Burgundians are still struggling to score. On the Gones side, there are also games where you have to accept to take the three points without convincing, even if it is twice in a row for OL …

I think a lot about Jeff …

To Louis II, Monaco beat Nice quite hard. The Aiglons who have been losing streak and cataclysmic matches for weeks, this time delivered a good performance. They conceded a penalty for a stupid foul by Ndoye on Caio Henrique, transformed by Ben Yedder but managed to equalize on a beautiful strike from Reine-Adelaide on the post taken by Lees-Melou. Only four minutes later they conceded a supersonic free kick from Ben Yedder, timed at 108 km / h.

This is the sixth success in a row for ASM, who scored on two set pieces. That’s 22 out of 46 goals scored this way for the Monegasques, which is pretty huge. At the end of the game, the Kovac players had other chances, including a shot from Golovin on the bar. But we can not talk about this match without mentioning the horrible injury of Reine-Adelaide. I’m not a doctor, but we had the same reaction with Habib on the set: I think it’s more serious than the crusaders and that the kneecap has also moved. We’ll wait for the medicals, but in the meantime I’m thinking about Jeff.

I don’t think we can still speak of OM as a leading team given its ninth place in the standings – even with two games late – but we were still waiting to see the reaction of the Marseille team afterwards. the incidents at the Commanderie and the postponement of the match against Rennes, as well as the resignation of Villas-Boas. The players of his (provisional) successor Nasser Larguet led 2-0 at rest, against the course of the game because the Lensois were much more attractive and lively.

Mediocre and boring Paris

OM took a double advantage just before half-time thanks to a very nice goal from Thauvin and the first achievement by Milik, in the purest “goal hunter” style. But after the break, Sotoca and Medina with a very good recovery, vaguely in the heel, allowed Racing to come back to score in a quarter of an hour before the Sang et Ors caused a very painful end to the match for the Olympians who, at the finish line, they do pretty well with this draw.

Finally, Paris beat Nîmes after a mediocre and boring match. It must be said that Nîmes waited to be led 2-0 to stop defending nine. The opening scoring came from a bad pass from Fomba intercepted and converted by Di Maria. In a bad period lately, the Argentinian then delivered a delight of assist for the second goal signed Sarabia before Mbappé, in the heart of a good period in Nîmes, gave Paris three goals ahead of a nice rolled shot from twenty meters.

A goal that does not solve the “Mbappé problem” in this team, with this bizarre left-axis attacking positioning where he found himself in a trap between four Nîmes defenders. Now, to draw conclusions about this match when seven starters were missing seems null and void to me. We will judge the club of the capital during the Classico, which we will have the pleasure of living on Canal on Sunday evening. A match which, I hope, will have a good audience with us to, perhaps, make everyone want to invest again in French football …

Pierrot

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