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Match Focus: Marvellous Marseille Denied Again by Lyon

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Match Focus: Marvellous Marseille Denied Again by Lyon If an end had to come to Marseille’s scintillating winning run of eight matches, it was probably always destined to be at Stade de Gerland against Lyon, in the derby of the two Olympiques. Exactly the same had happened on their last such run of successes, when Bernard Lacombe’s side defe...

Match Focus: Lyon’s Growing Stamina Catches Out PSG

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Match Focus: Lyon’s Growing Stamina Catches Out PSG Three weeks, it turns out, is a long time in the life of Ligue 1. If somebody had told you at the start of the month that after Paris Saint-Germain’s meeting with Lyon, one team would be steeling themselves for a productive winter while the other would be questioning the very direction of thei...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Odds are flying high this weekend. You know there is a treat in store when one of the scheduled games is a replay of last season's Champions League final, not to mention that it is also the Madrid derby. As if that isn't enough, there is also Arsenal against Manchester City which is the first pro...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips The most balanced league begins again. Nobody can really question who Le Championnat favourites are, which started a week ago, while the Premier League returns, where Chelsea are tipped to wrestle the title away from Manchester City after their summer spending spree. There are a number of teams capa...

League Focus: Ligue 1 2013/14 Review

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League Focus: Ligue 1 2013/14 Review As Paris Saint-Germain closed their season in typical style with a 4-0 win over Montpellier, it seemed like an eternity since the reverse fixture on the opening day of the season, when La Paillade had held Laurent Blanc’s side to a draw at the Stade de la Mosson.It was also an extraordinary fe...

Match Focus: Wily Galtier Helps St Etienne to Undo Decimated Lyon

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Match Focus: Wily Galtier Helps St Etienne to Undo Decimated Lyon When your rival is wounded, of course, you have to go for the throat. Since 1994, Saint Etienne had won only one derby against their bitter adversaries Lyon (thanks to Dimitri Payet's fantastic free-kick at the Stade Gerland in 2010) going into Sunday's clash - the 108th between the pair. Having fou...

WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips

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WhoScored Tipster: The Weekend's Top Tips Plenty of goals and away wins - that's the focus for this weekend's betting tips, though there is one team that goes against the grain and for good reason. Chelsea will look to maintain their formidable home record against the Premier League's big guns and assert their authority against an underwhel...

Team Focus: How to Win a Derby the Olympique Lyonnais Way

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Team Focus: How to Win a Derby the Olympique Lyonnais Way “We’re at home without actually being at home.” The way Lyon’s Samuel Umtiti described how his team feels about playing at local rivals Saint Etienne’s Stade Geoffroy Guichard (‘Le Chaudron’, or ‘The Cauldron’, no less) must hurt Les Verts almost...

WhoScored Tipster: Barcelona, Milan & PSG

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WhoScored Tipster: Barcelona, Milan & PSG Barcelona and Paris Saint Germain were made to wait another week to be crowed champions of their respective leagues after their nearest challengers won to keep up the chase at the top. This week, however, their fate is in their own hands, with wins on Sunday night enough to claim the title and it is...

WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting Across Europe

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WhoScored Tipster: Sunday Betting Across Europe After the midweek drama of Champions and Europa League action, teams from across the continent return to domestic action once again this weekend, and here we take a look at the best of the bets from Sunday's top games.Lyon vs MarseilleRounding off the weekend's Ligue 1 action is a game that pits tog...