Matchday 10: Tops and Flops

By: Sarah | October 26th, 2009

So lets see who starred and who disappointed in this week’s action…

Top 3 Performances

3. Nene (Monaco): Ligue 1’s current top scorer continued his streak against a struggling Boulogne by adding another two goals to the 7 he has already scored. This gives him a total of 9 goals in 10 ten games.

2. Guy Ndy Assembe (Valenciennes): The Cameroon-born goalkeeper made several show-stopping saves against Saint-Etienne. His point-blank save of Bergessio’s shot is a candidate for save of the season.

1. Moussa Sissoko (Toulouse): Maintained his consistently impressive form this season, impressive at any age but extremely impressive considering he is only 20. His leadership in the midfield has already been noted by the press, but the offensive skills displayed in this game have elevated his game to another level.

Top 3 Flops

3. David Jemmali (Grenoble): Poor Grenoble seems determined to throw away even a point as they lost their 10th game of the season. Grenoble’s Jemmali gave Nancy the equalizer with a strong header, which he unfortunately aimed at his own goal.

2. Lyon: While this should not discount Nice’s awesomely effective and efficient performance in front of the goal in their utter destruction of Lyon this weekend, Lyon could not help themselves as they completely broke down. Two of their former players (Remy and Mounier) came back to haunt them, Cissokho claimed an own goal and nobody on the team seemed to have it within themselves to pick the team up, put them on their back and put in a game-changing performance.

1. Ligue de Football Professionel (LFP): Waited until the last possible moment to call off the Classico. Regardless of if the decision was right or not, the call should have been made earlier. Instead, the call wasn’t made until PSG was already in Marseille (forcing the transportation of sick players) and fans had traveled South (leading to violent clashes) unnecessarily. The whole debacle should have been handled better. After the first player in Ligue 1 was diagnosed in August, they should have created a protocol on how to deal with situations like this (should they arise)– that way they could have avoided accusations of bias.