With a 3-0 win over FC Metz, SC Bastia were crowned Ligue 2 Champions and confirmed promotion to Ligue 1. Watch out for a superb double from Sadio Diallo…a player you will be hearing a lot more from next season.
Great scenes at the Stade Armand Cesari near exactly 20 years since the Furiani disaster.
Jon and Andrew convene for a midweek podcast looking at the huge game between Lille and PSG and what it does to the title race, before dicussing the events during Montpellier’s 2-2 draw with Evian.
They also discuss the Coupe de France final between Quevilly and Lyon. Where both clubs go from here and discuss Quevilly and Red Star Paris’s future in the Championnat National.
They end the pod by picking their nominees for Player of the Month for April.
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As you may or may not know, Chelsea fans, Gael Kakuta has spent the second half of this season not in your reserves but in fact in Ligue 1, as part of the Dijon squad which are currently trying to battle their way towards top flight safety, and is showing all the right signs that he is getting ready for the Chelsea first team.
Although many of you will know little more about this boy than the controversy which surrounded him shortly after joining Chelsea, Kakuta spent the first half of the season domestically at an uninspiring loan spell at Bolton Wanderers, but signs from France suggest that Gael is starting to look like the player everyone once imagined he would be. Dijon may be struggling, but a arguably one of their top performers has been the diminutive French loanee.
SC Bastia are on the cusp on glory as a win at home to FC Metz tonight will crown them Ligue 2 champions, thus ensuring their place in France’s top-flight for next season.
It truly has been an incredible run by Frederic Hantz’s side who overhauled the early pace setters Clermont from the summit and steamrolled their way towards promotion with a piece of silverware in tow. Although promotion has not yet been officially claimed, the win at home to Chateauroux last week more or less sealed it as they have a far more superior goal difference to that of Clermont who lie in fourth – just outside the three promotion spots.
Hello and welcome back to another week of Frenchmen abroad. Well we’re in for a treat this week as two men scored a brace and set up one, whilst another was brought on for half an hour, but is a potential young star and the last kept another clean sheet as his team strive for a better league position.
First stop, La Liga. That is where we find our best two performances from Frenchmen this weekend. First up is the little magician that is loved by not just myself but a couple others from FFW, it’s Antoine Griezmann. The young talent was up to his old tricks again this weekend as he helped his side to a commanding 3-0 home win against struggling Racing Santander. The first goal of the match came in the forty-seventh minute when a cross was deflected into the box and when it looked certain one of the two massive Santander defenders would have gotten to the ball first, out of nowhere slides in little Griezmann to open up the scoring.
Over the next few weeks both Manchester United and Manchester City will do battle to win the Premier League title, tonight’s game at the Ethiad stadium could be the deciding factor, but both have tough games left before the season ends. Just as the teams are battling on the pitch, it seems a battle off the pitch has begun for the signing of Lille’s Belgian winger Eden Hazard.
Last night Lille reduced the gap on PSG to only two points, leaving the Capital side five points off Montpellier at the top of Ligue 1. As always French Football Weekly were covering the game live.
Here is the match as it happened.
PREMATCH
Bonsoir à tous, this is @Philby1976 here to take you through le grand match, Lille v PSG. First, the teams:
Lille: Landreau; Debuchy Basa Chedjou Digne; Mavuba Balmont Pedretti; Hazard De Melo Payet
PSG: Sirigu; Jallet Alex Costa Bisevac Tiéné; Sissoko Matuidi Motta; Pastore Nene; Gameiro
I fancy Nancy to win here, they are unbeaten in the last eight games, whilst Caen have only one win in nine.
Home & away form points to Nancy, 11pts in six games, whilst Caen’s away form only gives them 4 points in 6 games
Nancy have won the last four matches between the two, so it all points towards them today.
Nancy to win at evens on Bet 365
Lille vs PSG
I’m going for both teams to score, it has the potential to turn into a real goal fest. I’ve gone on about PSG’s form recently, they cant seem to keep a clean sheet of late, history in this fixture doesnt paint a clear picture, but recent form of both sides predicts to me that both teams will get on the score sheet.
Both teams to score here at odds of 1.67 on bet365
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Today sees Quevilly faced with the very real possibility of defeating Olympique Lyonnais for the Coupe de France in what could be a fairytale tie for the minnows. The club’s journey to the Stade de France has already been faced with some giant killings, defeating both Marseille and Rennes in the most recent rounds of competition in order to book their place in the final.
Will Saturday’s cup final be a fitting ending to what has been an amazing fairytale story for amateur side US Quevilly, or will they fall at the final hurdle, just as they did back in 1927 against Marseille.
Before Saturday’s showpiece final let’s have a look at US Quevilly, who they are and what to expect from the third division side.
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