UEFA index: It starts badly for France ...

With the winner of the most prestigious competitions in its ranks, France can naturally hope for a great European season. But for the moment, the beginnings are rather chaotic. With a first disturbing signal from Nice at the Champions League dam, French clubs experienced a complicated start if we except the PSG which started perfectly its league phase as a champion with a spanking inflicted on the Atalanta Bergame (4-0). While the start in 2024-25 had been complicated, the band at Luis Enrique only made a bite of the Italian training, recalling that it will indeed have to count in Paris in the Champions League this season.

Very good news for the ranking of the France's UEFA index, especially when you look at the performance of the other two clubs engaged this week. Olympique de Marseille fell, not without resisting, facing a Real Madrid reduced to 10 which came out miraculously thanks to a controversial penalty at the end of the match transformed by Kylian Mbappé. A bit bitter 2-1 defeat for the Marseille club which knew how to thwart the Madrid ogre, and which should have brought back at least one point of its trip to Spain. But the result is there and it's zero point for the UEFA index classification.

Monaco Donkey Bonnet from France at the start of the European season

And this little game there, Monaco did even worse. Unable to raise his level of play, weak in all the compartments of the game with frames to absent subscribers like a Maghnes Akliouche Author of a completely failed penalty, ASM sank against the Bruges club taking a terrible 4-1. Taking worrying especially when you look at the C1 club calendar in C1 for upcoming matches, namely the receptions of Manchester City and Tottenham and a perilous displacement at Bodø/Glimt. Everything except games of pleasure to come for the band of Adi Hütter, deeply marked by this bitter failure.

Result, France is not for the moment and is already lagging behind in the classification of the index dominated as anecdotal by Cyprus. While the most ambitious observers saw a possible return from France to Germany, our neighbor from across the Rhine began his European year perfectly with victories from Bayern Munich (3-1 against Chelsea), Eintracht Frankfurt (4-1 against Galatasaray) and a draw from Dortmund (4-4 against Juventus). What already to concede 1,357 point against the Germans and be at a pitiful 17th place well wedged between Romania and the Czech Republic. France will have to wake up and this already goes through the Europa League with the entries in the competition of Lille, Nice, Lyon and Strasbourg in the Europa League Conference.