French Football 2017-18

[Lyonnais]

DR/DMR


7.69 Dani Alves (Paris, DR, 35, BRA)
7.65 Frédéric Guilbert (Caen, DR, 23, FRA)
7.54 Djibril Sidibé (Monaco, DR, 25, FRA)
7.54 Léo Dubois (Nantes, DR, 23, FRA)
7.53 Youssouf Sabaly (Bordeaux, DR, 25, FRA)
etc.


Dani ALVES
DR, 35, Paris & Brazil (108 caps)
Career: Bahia - Sevilla - Barcelona - Juventus - Paris (2017)
Titles:
- Winner of the Copa America 2007
- Winner of the Confederations Cup 2009 & 2013
- Winner of the Champions League 2009, 2011 & 2015
- Winner of the Europa League 2006 & 2007
- Champion of Spain 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 & 2016
- Champion of Italy 2017
- Champion of France 2018
- Winner of the Copa del Rey 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015 & 2016
- Winner of the Coppa Italia 2017
- Winner of the Coupe de France 2018
- Winner of the Coupe de la Ligue 2018

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DL / DML


7.55 Jorge (Monaco, DL, 22, BRA)
7.50 Jordan Amavi (Marseille, DL, 24, FRA)
7.35 Bakaye Dibassy (Amiens, DL, 28, MAL)
7.34 Lucas Lima (Nantes, DL, 26, BRA)
7.31 Yuri Berchiche (Paris, DL, 28, ESP)
etc.


JORGE
DL, 22, Monaco & Brazil (1 cap)
Career: Flamengo - Monaco (2017)
Title: Champion of France 2017

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DMC / MC


8.09 Fabinho (Monaco, DMC, 24, BRA)
7.90 Houssem Aouar (Lyon, MC, 19, FRA)
7.78 André Zambo Anguissa (Marseille, DMC, 22, CAM)
7.72 Luiz Gustavo (Marseille, DMC, 30, BRA)
7.70 Tanguy Ndombele (Lyon, MC, 21, FRA)
7.67 Benjamin André (Rennes, MC, 27, FRA)
7.60 Dimitri Lienard (Strasbourg, MC, 30, FRA)
7.57 Pierre Lees-Melou (Nice, MC, 24, FRA)
7.55 Adrien Rabiot (Paris, MC, 23, FRA)
7.54 Julian Draxler (Paris, MC, 24, GER)
etc.


FABINHO
DMC, 24, Monaco & Brazil (4 caps)
Career: Real Madrid - Monaco (2013)
Title: Champion of France 2017



Houssem AOUAR
MC, 19, Lyon & France U21
Career: Lyon (2016)

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MR / AMR / FWR


8.74 Florian Thauvin (Marseille, AMR, 25, FRA)
8.07 Kylian Mbappé (Paris, FWR, 19, FRA)
8.06 Bertrand Traoré (Lyon, AMR, 22, BUR)
8.06 Malcom (Bordeaux, FWR, 21, BRA)
7.95 Angel Di Maria (Paris, FWR, 30, ARG)
etc.


Florian THAUVIN
AMR, 25, Marseille & France (3 caps)
Career: Grenoble - Bastia - Marseille - Newcastle - Marseille (2015)

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ML / AML / FWL


9.10 Neymar (Paris, FWL, 26, BRA)
8.25 Memphis Depay (Lyon, AML, 24, NED)
7.67 Naim Sliti (Dijon, Fal, 25, TUN)
7.58 Max Gradel (Toulouse, FWL, 30, CIV)
7.55 Lucas Ocampos (Marseille, AML, 23, ARG)
etc.


NEYMAR
FWL, 26, Paris & Brazil (83 caps)
Career: Santos - Barcelona - Paris (2017)
Titles:
- Winner of the Confederations Cup 2013
- Winner of the Olympic Games 2016
- Winner of the Copa Libertadores 2011
- Winner of the Champions League 2015
- Champion of Spain 2015 & 2016
- Champion of France 2018
- Winner of the Copa do Brasil 2010
- Winner of the Copa del Rey 2015, 2016 & 2017
- Winner of the Coupe de France 2018
- Winner of the Coupe de la Ligue 2018

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AMC / FW


8.51 Nabil Fekir (Lyon, AMC, 24, FRA)
8.46 Edinson Cavani (Paris, FW, 31, URU)
7.99 Dimitri Payet (Marseille, AMC, 31, FRA)
7.84 Alassane Plea (Nice, FW, 25, FRA)
7.73 Remy Cabella (St-Etienne, AMC, 28, FRA)
7.71 Mariano (Lyon, FW, 24, ESP)
7.64 Mario Balotelli (Nice, FW, 27, ITA)
7.63 Ronny Rodelin (Caen, FW, 28, FRA)
7.61 Gaël Kakuta (Amiens, AMC, 26, DRC)
7.58 Karl Toko Ekambi (Angers, FW, 25, CAM)
etc.


Nabil FEKIR
AMC, 24, Lyon & France (10 caps)
Career: Lyon (2013)



Edinson CAVANI
FW, 31, Paris & Uruguay (100 caps)
Career: Danubio - Palermo - Napoli - Paris (2013)
Titles:
- Winner of the Copa America 2011
- Champion of Uruguay 2007
- Champion of France 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2018
- Winner of the Coppa Italia 2012
- Winner of the Coupe de France 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018
- Winner of the Coupe de la Ligue 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018

[spoonman]

Yesterday, a question about Coupe de France came up in a German forum. Can someone help me out?

I know that teams from overseas territories play against clubs from mainland France in round 7. There's a special draw for games involving teams from outre-mer, and mainland clubs can apply to be part of that draw. The FFF covers all travel expenses. If overseas teams win an away game in round 7, they're entitled to a home game in round 8. I hope that's correct so far.

But what happens if an overseas team reaches round 9, where all the Ligue 1 teams join the competition? I think I've read (probably on this forum) that games must be played in mainland France from a certain round onwards but I haven't found any proof of that.

[totosexpandingheadband]

Amazing ending to Ajaccio-Le Havre.

2-2 scored in 125th minute I see. How come they had 5 minutes of injury time in 15 minute of total time?

There was an interruption : a penalty given to Le Havre after an Ajaccio player gets excluded after hitting the referee in the penalty area. Le Havre scored, the goalscorer provokes the crowd => huge fight and 3 red cards. So the 5 minutes were justified.

It was difficult to understand what was going on in those last minutes,I couldn't even make out what the penalty was given for,and then there was the huge fight,the cards,and then when Ajaccio were ready to restart the game,it looked like the 4th official called the ref over to the touchline and he spent another few minutes writing stuff in his book,what was all that about?.............seemed a lot longer than 5 minutes should have been added on.

[Lyonnais]

at the end,
- game postponed on Friday because of violences outside the stadium. Very soft position of the league stating that security of the bus of the players of Le Havre was under the responsibility of the State and not the club.
- Sunday: 5 red cards, 2 per each team (apparently it's not allowed anymore to celebrate a goal when you're playing at Ajaccio, it is considered as a provocation), one for the coach of Ajaccio (who went back to the pitch for the penalty kicks and Le Havre are trying to concel the result as there is a technical fault there), the President of Le Havre kicked in the stand by "fans" , racist insults all game long, etc ...

Who knows what would happened if Le havre dared to win that game ?

I have no word. I'm sad and tired of this.

Who bets that the League will not say anything again and that the game vs. Toulouse will take place on Wednesday as expected?

[Phocea]

Yesterday, a question about Coupe de France came up in a German forum. Can someone help me out?

I know that teams from overseas territories play against clubs from mainland France in round 7. There's a special draw for games involving teams from outre-mer, and mainland clubs can apply to be part of that draw. The FFF covers all travel expenses. If overseas teams win an away game in round 7, they're entitled to a home game in round 8. I hope that's correct so far.

But what happens if an overseas team reaches round 9, where all the Ligue 1 teams join the competition? I think I've read (probably on this forum) that games must be played in mainland France from a certain round onwards but I haven't found any proof of that.

Found nothing on the regulations, sorry.

at the end,
- game postponed on Friday because of violences outside the stadium. Very soft position of the league stating that security of the bus of the players of Le Havre was under the responsibility of the State and not the club.
- Sunday: 5 red cards, 2 per each team (apparently it's not allowed anymore to celebrate a goal when you're playing at Ajaccio, it is considered as a provocation), one for the coach of Ajaccio (who went back to the pitch for the penalty kicks and Le Havre are trying to concel the result as there is a technical fault there), the President of Le Havre kicked in the stand by "fans" , racist insults all game long, etc ...

Who knows what would happened if Le havre dared to win that game ?

I have no word. I'm sad and tired of this.

Who bets that the League will not say anything again and that the game vs. Toulouse will take place on Wednesday as expected?

I have more chance to win the next lottery than a serious decision of the League.

[spoonman]

Yesterday, a question about Coupe de France came up in a German forum. Can someone help me out?

I know that teams from overseas territories play against clubs from mainland France in round 7. There's a special draw for games involving teams from outre-mer, and mainland clubs can apply to be part of that draw. The FFF covers all travel expenses. If overseas teams win an away game in round 7, they're entitled to a home game in round 8. I hope that's correct so far.

But what happens if an overseas team reaches round 9, where all the Ligue 1 teams join the competition? I think I've read (probably on this forum) that games must be played in mainland France from a certain round onwards but I haven't found any proof of that.

Found nothing on the regulations, sorry.

Well, at least I'm not the only one. And I've combed through English, French and German Wikipedia pages plus FFF.fr ...

[Lyonnais]

in the regulations, it is stated § 5.2 c that "the conditions of the participation of the teams from overseas are fixed by the Executive Committee after propositions of the Commission".
https://www.fff.fr/static/uploads/media ... 6b6918.pdf
In another words, they don't write anything to be able to decide anything if needed.

However, everything you wrote seems correct to me. At least this is what's done.

If you read some French, I found an article of the local paper "Le Telegramme" (from Brittany) mentioning that two local teams were candidate to play an overseas team and they explain the process
http://www.letelegramme.fr/football/cou ... 714702.php
11 teams from the Dom-TOM (overseas) - 2 coming from the biggest departments Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane and Reunion + one from Mayotte, New Caledonia and Polynesia.
It's a real draw but we know in advance that 5 games will be played in the DOM-TOM and 6 in the Metropole.
I didn't know but the team from Mayotte always play away whereas New Caledonia and Polynesia host a game one year out of two.

For the Round of 64 when the L1 teams enter, I didn't find anything but the game always takes place in the Metropole. If the Dom-TOM team is supposed to host the game it is usually played in the Paris area where there are the largest communities from the overseas department and territories (otherwise they alternatively can decide to invert and play away).
It doesn't happen often.

[spoonman]

Thanks, Lyonnais!

[Lyonnais]

Season review

FC METZ




Everything went wrong for Metz this season. An awful start with only 5 points after 17 games. they had some decent periods in winter time but never really managed to catch up. They're going back to L2.

History
- Winner of the Coupe de France 1984 & 1988
- Winner of the Coupe de la Ligue 1996

2014-18 rankings: L2 - 19 - L2 - 14 - 20 (relegated to L2)

Average attendance: 14,839

Key players (16): Kawashima - Niakhaté, Diagne, Rivierez, Balliu, Palmieri, Assou-Ekotto, Selimovic - Cohade, Poblete, Mandjeck - Roux, Dossevi, Rivière, Mollet, N'Guette
French players: 7 (44%)
Average age: 28.5

Best players (WS): Mathieu Dossevi, Renaud Cohade, Nolan Roux, etc.

Mathieu DOSSEVI
AMR, 30, Metz & Togo (18 caps)
Career: Le Mans - Valenciennes - Olympiakos - Standard - Metz (2017, on loan from Standard)
Titles:
- Champion of Greece 2015
- Winner of the Cup of Belgium 2016

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Season review

ESTAC TROYES



Troyes haven't managed to stay in L1 another time. They have a reputation of playing decent football (not sure that I fully agree) but it was not enough to remain in L1

History: no major domestic title

2014-18 rankings: L2 - L2 - 20 - L2 - 19 (relegated)

Average attendance: 12,196

Key players (19): Samassa, Zelazny - Traoré, Hérelle, Deplagne, Giraudon, Vizacarrondo, Cordoval - Azamoun, Bellugou, Dingome, Walter - Grandsir, Niane, Khaoui, Darbion, Pelé, Nivet, Suk Hyun-Jun
French players: 14 (74%)
Average age: 28.0

Best players (WS): Charles Traoré, Christophe Hérelle, Mathieu Deplagne, etc.

Charles TRAORE
DL, 26, Troyes & Mali (2 caps)
Career: Troyes (2016)