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Team Focus: Who Will Replace The Injured Gignac at Marseille?

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Team Focus: Who Will Replace The Injured Gignac at Marseille? After starting the season with six straight wins, Marseille’s 4-1 defeat to Valenciennes was something of a reality check for Elie Baup’s side, and defeat this weekend away at Troyes saw reality strike with an almighty crash, or possibly more a crack - the crack of Andre-Pierre Gignac&rs...

Match Focus: The Corsican Derby - Ajaccio vs Bastia

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Match Focus: The Corsican Derby - Ajaccio vs Bastia When Bastia won promotion back to Ligue 1 one of the most exciting prospects for this season was the return of the Corsican derby. It has been seven years since the island derby featured in the top division, and back then Mamadou Seck’s first half header was enough for Ajaccio to win the match...

League Focus: Ligue 1 Goals

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League Focus: Ligue 1 Goals In Ligue 1 the teams that end up on top are unsurprisingly the most clinical. Its one thing to create chances (ask Lille), while it's another thing to put them away. Too often chances are wasted and teams struggle, reputations are made, and many are broken. Take Valenciennes' excellent 4-1 win over ...

Team Focus: Bordeaux's Unbeaten Streak

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Team Focus: Bordeaux's Unbeaten Streak After their awful performances in the league last season, most of the early praise this year has been directed towards Elie Baup's league leaders Marseille. However over in the Burgundy region the locals are raising a glass of red wine to their own unbeaten side.Although disappointed to concede a la...

Team Focus: What's Wrong with Montpellier?

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Team Focus: What's Wrong with Montpellier? What a difference a year makes. 12 months ago Montpellier were the league’s sensational story, winning four out of their first five games as what was supposed to be just a good run of form turned out to be the form of Champions. Now with five games gone this season Montpellier are 16th in Ligu...

Player Focus: Rio Mavuba (Lille)

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Player Focus: Rio Mavuba (Lille) Football teams are made up of all different types of characters; you have your superstars, your tricky wingers, brave-heart defenders and penalty-box strikers. However, every team has a player that never gets the plaudits, will never make the front of magazines and fans don’t jump at the chanc...

Team Focus: Lyon's Midfield Changes

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Team Focus: Lyon's Midfield Changes It would be easy for the city of Lyon to have slumped into a fit of depression of late. Four games into the current season, Les Gones sit second in the table behind the impressive Marseille, however off the pitch it has been nothing but despair. No less than 11 first team players departed the Stade ...

Player Focus: Andre-Pierre Gignac (Marseille)

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Player Focus: Andre-Pierre Gignac (Marseille) As his right foot shot beat Geoffrey Jourdren into the near corner Andre-Pierre Gignac peeled away in celebration, ecstatic to have scored his second league goal in three games, but this was more than just a game winner for the French striker, this questionably was the return of one of Ligue 1&rsquo...

League Focus: Four Hot Prospects in Ligue 1

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League Focus: Four Hot Prospects in Ligue 1 Ligue 1 is possibly one of the best leagues in Europe for new and emerging players to burst onto the scene each season. Some you can predict, others seem to come from nowhere. Last season names like Renaud Cohade, Lossemy Karaboue or Adrien Regattin impressed anyone who managed to see them play most...

Team Focus: A Chink in PSG's Expensive Armour?

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Team Focus: A Chink in PSG's Expensive Armour? Ligue 1 may have kicked off on the Friday night with Champions Montpellier in action but the eyes of the nation were focused on the capital as the spotlight fell on Qatari owned Paris Saint-Germain, who opened the season against FC Lorient. After spending €100 million last season it was Lorient...