Soccer. League 1: Lorient
The clash: Lorient-Monaco
The six leading teams all emerged victorious from the previous day, with the exception of the leader Paris SG, dominated by its runner-up Lens. In this fierce race for the podium, the trip of the Monegasques (5th, 33 points) to the Lorient (6th, 31 pts) is crucial for both teams.
Since the post-World Cup resumption, the Principality’s club has had a solid record in the league, keeping Rennes (4th, 34 pts) and Marseille (3rd, 36 pts) within range. But he got lost in the Coupe de France on Saturday, with an elimination in the 1/32 final on penalties against Rodez, one of the bad students in Ligue 2.
For its part, Stade Rennes travel to Clermont, ninth in the standings, while OM travel to Troyes, undefeated in the last two league games.
Zaire-Emery, the Parisian to follow
“Titi” but sturdy! Warren Zaire-Emery, a pure product of Parisian training, took a new step in his professional career on Friday by becoming, at 16 years and almost ten months, the youngest holder in the history of PSG against Châteauroux (National) in French Cup.
Happy to have been able to play an entire match, the very precocious midfielder said he was determined, at the microphone of beIN Sports, to “continue to work”, because “there will probably be other opportunities”. From Wednesday against Angers?
Seeing him in L1 is possible, replied his coach Christophe Galtier on Tuesday, because he would even be “capable of starting a Champions League match”. “What comforts me about the analysis we have of Warren is that our great players have the same look as us,” added the boss of the Parisian staff.
The number: 9
This is the quantified title for the start of 2023: nine coaches (out of 20 teams) have been fired by their club since the start of the 2022/23 season, a pace that looks like a record after only 17 days. contested championships.
The latest victims both fell on Monday, in the breath of elimination in the Coupe de France: Julien Stéphan in Strasbourg and Lucien Favre in Nice.
Two interims will try to create a more virtuous dynamic from Wednesday: Mathieu Le Scornet will lead the Alsatians, penultimate in L1, against the second Lens while Didier Digard will be on the bench of the Aiglons for the reception of Montpellier from Romain Pitau, successor of Olivier Dall’Oglio since October.
The excitement is reinforced in Ligue 1 by the four descents applied to the lower level at the end of the season, a consequence of the transition to eighteen clubs in the elite from the 2023-2024 financial year.