🎙️Le Classique Podcast🎙️Contributor on Le Beau Jeu, @FrenchFootShow, heard on BBC. 🇫🇷 football historians & Ligue 1 specialists. [email protected]
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🚨THE BIG LIGUE 1 PREVIEW🚨
@Ligue1 is BACK today and the Le Classique team and friend of the pod @Jon_LeGossip have it all covered, including:
🏆Challengers to PSG
👨💼Manager merry go round
⭐️Future stars
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What’s interesting too:
1. #HAC had banked on stability over the last few seasons. Despite relative inexperience, they’d stick by Digard & DoF Bodmer last 2 seasons (before Bodmer’s departure this summer).
2. Ba wanted confirmation that Digard would stay before stepping in.
Chaos at #HAC. After Didier Digard’s sacking and Pdt Roussier’s resignation Saturday, DoF Demba Ba resigned today. Who is at the helm of the club bottom of #Ligue1 with 2pts in 9 games (& already 6pts behind 16th…)?
INFO L'ÉQUIPE. Deux jours après le licenciement de Didier Digard et la démission de Jean-Michel Roussier, Demba Ba a, lui aussi, décidé de quitter Le Havre. Le club doyen n'a plus de président, directeur sportif, ni entraîneur.
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Lyon climb to 3rd behind the rejuvenated Ernest Nuamah and the ever-important Corentin Tolisso. But the evening was overshadowed by the imminent departure of manager Paulo Fonseca back to 🇵🇹. A major loss for #OL and Ligue 1.
𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗜𝗜𝗜𝗜𝗜𝗜𝗜𝗜𝗜𝗥𝗘 💥
À la maison, nos Gones retrouvent le chemin du succès en s'imposant face au Angers SCO ! 🔥🔴🔵
Trois points de plus 💪
2-0 #OLSCO
🚨LIGUE 1 QUARTER SEASON REVIEW🚨
We were delighted to be joined by @jeremysmith98 to review the first quarter of a competitive #Ligue1 season, with a fun top 8 & plenty of talent on show, including Flotov⬇️
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The league of talents remain. #LOSC’s Academy seemingly keeps on delivering, with Soriba Diaoune looking excellent and fearless in 🇪🇺 before being lively against Lens, perhaps offering a solution to Lille’s problematic LW spot so far. And don’t forget 18yo Mariba Goffi at RB too.
Great insight into #LOSC, a club that’s been doing nearly everything right on and off the pitch since Olivier Letang took over in 2020. Their Academy is thriving again after lean years, they’re investing in their stadium & have a young manager in Davide Ancelotti.
I went behind the scenes at Lille to explore the academy that has produced talents like Bouaddi - and a new era under Davide Ancelotti
Includes interviews with Ancelotti, president Letang & Nabil Bentaleb on his return after suffering a cardiac arrest
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The fact we never get tired of seeing these clips (even though we’ve seen them countless times and know them by heart) is why we decided to do our Z Files series on ZZ’s most iconic 🇫🇷 games.
🚨THE Z FILES: EPISODE 2🚨
We continue our watch of iconic Zidane games for 🇫🇷. Up next: a wonderful Euro 2000 semi-final against Figo’s 🇵🇹. Abel Xavier. And, perhaps, the greatest touch of all time.
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4–0 up. Cruising. Then… Marseille happened 😬
Three late goals conceded, last-gasp penalty controversy and a furious Genesio.
Plus: Thauvin for France? 🇫🇷
Our Ligue 1 Review with @mattspiro, @LeClassiquePod & @Jon_LeGossip 🔥🔥
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3 wins in a row in #Ligue1 for Lens, led by the indefatigable Florian Thauvin and a rejuvenated Thorgan Hazard. Yannick Cahuzac, who took over after Dino Toppmoller’s shock early exit, is on a good early run. As for #PFC, a missed early opportunity to stamp a claim on a 🇪🇺 spot?
So many wonderful players on show tonight in one of the best games of the season. But my goodness has Fabian Ruiz had himself a hell of a game. He’s been everywhere; his physicality in midfield is such an asset for PSG. And just what a smart player. #PSGBAR
Always, always watch Ligue 1 if you want to find great talent. #PSGBarça
9. The talent. #Ligue1 dubs itself the "league of talents" and (imho) rightly so. Look out for many, many surprising youngsters ready to burst onto the scene (⬇️). Our favourites? Lukeba, Enzo Le Fee and Desire Doue. And hoping for Warren Zaire-Emery
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He is excellent and I’m a big fan of Truffert. I think people are going to start talking a lot more about Désiré Doué too; still 17 (18 in June) & has played a good amount recently. Versatile but impressive going forward & another product from one of 🇫🇷’s best academies!
Plenty to like in #Ligue1 this season:
🏆5 teams leading the pack on 14pts
⭐️New (Sinayoko) and old (Thauvin, Giroud) stars showing their ability
⚽️Plenty of (spectacular) goals.
Always a joy to join @mattspiro & @Jon_LeGossip to discuss this on @FrenchFootShow ⬇️
Eight changes. Another PSG win. Ligue 1 too easy? Strasbourg (or anyone who saw the game) might have something to say 👀
Plus: Paris FC’s 7-goal thriller, sensational Sinayoko, Marseille stir & Lyon go top 🔥🔥
@mattspiro @Jon_LeGossip & @LeClassiquePod
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We saw it in Ligue 1 first and we’re not exactly surprised. Still, what a game Ayyoub Bouaddi is having. #MCIPSG
(Follow Ligue 1 and 🇫🇷 football, everyone)
🚨THE Z FILES: EPISODE 1🚨
With Zinedine Zidane (finally?) managing Les Bleus, we take the opportunity to go back in time and look at the maestro’s iconic games for 🇫🇷. We start, of course, with the 1998 final.
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Strong sense of déjà vu with RDZ and the expensive mid-season trips to Rome to reinforce camaraderie. Interesting when there’s always clearly been one common denominator to the underlying chaos (though, to be fair to RDZ too, Marseille is a special place for that).
Exc: Tottenham boss Roberto De Zerbi schedules early-season team bonding trip to Marbella. Squad travel following today’s clash against Man Utd. Team to prepare for Coventry fixture in Spain but trip also viewed as chance for new-look squad to connect. bbc.co.uk/sport/football/art…
