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Messi and Hazard Star in WhoScored.com's European Team of the Month

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Messi and Hazard Star in WhoScored.com's European Team of the Month With the first batch of international fixtures upon us, WhoScored.com take a look at the highest rated players from the first month of the new campaign. Players that have started at least two matches come into consideration from Europe’s big five leagues, so Bundesliga players aren’t inc...

Guingamp Flying as Kombouaré Returns in Triumph

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Guingamp Flying as Kombouaré Returns in Triumph It’s been a long four-and-a-half years for Antoine Kombouaré. It was a few days before the end of 2011 that he was fired by Paris Saint-Germain, with the club he had served so memorably as a player sitting pretty atop Ligue 1. The club’s board got the more cosmopolitan replacement...

Lethal Lacazette Gets Lyon Off to a Flyer

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Lethal Lacazette Gets Lyon Off to a Flyer “If (the president) says I’m staying, then I’m staying.” Alexandre Lacazette smiled that famous smile with the assurance of a seasoned pro as Canal+ grilled him on his Olympique Lyonnais future, following Sunday’s Ligue 1 opener at Nancy. He’s been here before, an...

Ligue 1 2015/16 Round-up - Can Anyone Compete With PSG?

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Ligue 1 2015/16 Round-up - Can Anyone Compete With PSG? How do Paris Saint-Germain move on from Zlatan Ibrahimovic?He arrived with a bang, and left with one. Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s final game at the Parc des Princes on Saturday was spectacular, with the game stopped for an ovation in the 10th minute before he scored twice against Nantes to help take ...

Jardim’s Monaco Plan Falls Apart in Champions League Chase

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Jardim’s Monaco Plan Falls Apart in Champions League Chase Jérémy Toulalan will never be one of French football’s most prolific talkers so when he does open up, it’s worth listening. The words of the Monaco midfield stalwart are like his game, straightforward and decisive. “There are no excuses,” he said after his curre...

Revived Toulouse Down But Not Out

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Revived Toulouse Down But Not Out It was a beginning in keeping with Toulouse’s sorry season. When Pascal Dupraz was appointed as coach to replace Dominique Arribagé, it seemed like president Olivier Sadran was already planning for life in Ligue 2. Arribagé’s side had just been beaten at home in the worst p...

Resurgent Lille Go from Cellar Dwellers to Champions League Chasers

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Resurgent Lille Go from Cellar Dwellers to Champions League Chasers If any team epitomises the haywire nature of this Ligue 1 campaign outside the bubble of Paris Saint Germain’s supremacy, then it is surely Lille. At the start of February, Les Dogues were three points above the drop zone, and had managed a miserable tally of 18 goals in 23 games. After winnin...

Marvellous Maxwell Compromising Fekir and Valbuena Euro Chances

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Marvellous Maxwell Compromising Fekir and Valbuena Euro Chances “It was, without a doubt, one of my most difficult weeks in terms of choice.” Bruno Genesio thought long and hard before finalising his Lyon team for Friday night’s trip to Montpellier. The coach’s decision revolved around one position in particular. Maxwell Cornet had been r...

Bordeaux Chipping Away to Safety Under Club Legend Ramé

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Bordeaux Chipping Away to Safety Under Club Legend Ramé “Is there a Ramé effect? The future will confirm that - or not.” It’s early days for Ulrich Ramé as Bordeaux coach, but it already seems as if he’s as steady a personality as a boss as he was as the goalkeeper that served Les Girondins for the best part of 15 ye...

Marseille Mess Goes From Bad to Worse

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Marseille Mess Goes From Bad to Worse “Trop de pression au Vel? Vous avez ¼ d’heure pour jouer libéré.” There were a number of banners on the Stade Vélodrome’s Virage Nord expressing the disquiet of Marseille’s ultras at their favourites’ current predicament, with the mark ...