why French football must support Monaco tonight
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Normally, the football fan vomits the footix theory which advocates national unity in European Cups in the name of the sacrosanct UEFA index. Never will an OM fan support PSG in their quest for the Champions League, never will a Lyonnais hope to see the Greens play in a final without square posts. But for the PSV Eindhoven-AS Monaco match tonight, an exception is requested. Because the result will greatly influence the places allocated to French football in C1 for the years to come.
At present, thanks to its 5th place in the UEFA coefficient, Ligue 1 will be entitled to four tickets for the new version C1 in 2024-25, including three directly qualifying for the round of hens. But if she drops in the standings, she will only be entitled to three tickets, one of which requires two preliminary rounds to reach the pools, like today. Or, currently, France is under threat from the Netherlands (6th) and Portugal (7th). Suffice to say that a Monegasque elimination against the Dutch could hurt a lot…
The front page of L’Équipe newspaper on Tuesday 9 August.
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— THE TEAM (@theteam) August 8, 2022
to summarize
This evening, AS Monaco will play their preliminary round return from C1 on the lawn of PSV Eindhoven. An elimination could cost French football very dearly in the years to come since it would lose a guaranteed representative in the queen of competitions.