Match Recaps
Scores and brief recaps of Ligue 1, Champions League, UEFA Cup and anything in between.
Matchday 17: PSG Good, Lyon Bad
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Well, it wasn’t at home, and death threats are perhaps still in circulation, but come on- do a jig, PSG are no longer part of the relegation trio, thanks to a win snatched from Auxerre at l’Abbé-Deschamps on Sunday. And who could’ve been more symbolic in scoring the only goal in that match than Péguy [...]
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Matchday 16: Wait for it… Wait for it… Bam! Goals!
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Let’s just say Canal+ picked the right three matches to be shown on TV on Sunday. In those three, which were Valenciennes-Rennes, Bordeaux-Toulouse and Lyon-Strasbourg, fifteen goals were scored. And these weren’t your everyday five-goal matches, no sir (thank God!). Valenciennes continued their impressive first half of the season with a 3-0 triumph over Rennes, [...]
Matchday 13: Lyon, Meet Driver’s Seat
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Oh wait, you already know each other. For the past six years you say? Oh.
Indeed all eyes were on Lyon this week as they won their fifth straight in the league against a Valenciennes side who were not without a fighting spirit but ended up ruing their wasted chances. Celebrating the 20-year anniversary of [...]
League Cup: Thrills,Spills and 13 Goals in 3 Matches
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I say it way too often: Nobody cares about la Coupe de la Ligue. Well, results like the ones we witnessed today might be enough for me to reconsider that statement. While we’re still waiting for the other five matches to be played (tomorrow and thursday), the three today earned the right to be talked [...]
Matchday 12: Boring Draws, Nice Wins, And a Whole Lotta Bad Luck
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So there it is. Olympique Lyonnais are now more than one win’s worth of points in front of their closest competitor. Can they be caught?
Nancy and Rennes are now four points behind them after Lyon’s 3-2 win over PSG at the Parc. Hatem Ben Arfa scored a pair of goals, nice ones too, before Pauleta [...]
Matchday 10: Lyon and Marseille Put their Ligue 1 Shorts on
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As opposed to their Champions League shorts. Yes, the reigning champions were back where they belonged, aka on the happy end of the scoreline. OM, on the other hand, failed to win for the ninth time this year. Out of ten tries, yeah.
(4) Bordeaux 1-3 Lyon (1)
Coming off of last week’s spanking against Rangers at [...]
My Coupe Runneth Over: Holders Bordeaux Fall to Lowly Metz!
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We were blessed this week with the Round of “32″ of la Coupe de la Ligue aka la Coupe en Carton aka la Coupe dont on se balance complètement aka the League Cup that doesn’t instill quite as much passion and excitement as a walk in the park. Kidding, of course, but still, yeah, this [...]
Matchday 9: Only in France
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Only in France does a team sport their opponents’ shirts to play a match. Only in France does a player score a header that looks like an homage to the Gateway to the West. Only in France does a single player have two goals disallowed in the space of two minutes. And get this: Karim [...]
Matchday 8: Raaaar, we is Lyon and we eat you alive.
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Karim Benzema destroys you. Don’t deny it. Anyway, here are the recaps from this week. Sorry for the lateness of the post, I’m hella-busy these days.
(7) Le Mans 2-0 Valenciennes (5)
Two of the biggest surprises of this very surprising start to the season, Le Mans were needing a win after three straight defeats and Valenciennes [...]
Matchday 7: This is our House
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Don’t you just love it when it seems every other day your league has matches going on? I certainly do. Round 7 in everyone’s favourite league saw exactly zero away victories, with five home triumphs and five draws. Among the cool things, there was Lyon’s dramatic comeback, Nancy’s consistency, PSG-OM ending in a draw, and [...]
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