An end of series for Marseille which benefits Lille: the fight for the podium and the Champions League tightened on Saturday 22 February during the 26e Ligue 1 day.
Sunday, Paris SG will also try to reassure themselves against Bordeaux (9 p.m.), after their hectic week between defeat in the Champions League in Dortmund (2-1), internal tensions and videos of a drunken evening having filtered on the networks social.
A little earlier, Saint-Etienne, in full crisis and without his goalkeeper Stéphane Ruffier dismissed by coach Claude Puel, will have the heavy task of extricating himself from his disappointing 17e place, against Reims (3 p.m.).
Until then, look back at the results for this Saturday.
OM, always 2e in the standings despite his defeat against Nantes (3-1), saw his lead shrink. "Our series in the league is coming to an end, it's a shame" : Marseille coach André Villas-Boas understood that the dream could not be eternal, after 14 undefeated matches in the league. OM, despite the return of their playing master Dimitri Payet, struggled against Nantes, and even ended up completely drowning with the goal against their camp of defender Alvaro Gonzalez who came to close the proceedings after a hand fault by Steve Mandanda .
And the Losc is threatening. Faced with the Toulouse red lantern, hard-pressed from the first seconds and whose end of the season promises to be very complicated, the Lille people gave themselves a quiet evening in front of their audience (3-0), with a double from Loïc Rémy, who is living one of its most successful periods (seven goals in 2020 in all competitions). Which makes four victories in the last five matches for Christophe Galtier's Northerners, a place on the podium (3e), and 43 points, now nine less than Marseille and six more than Lyon, a slow winner Friday from Metz in Moselle (2-0).
Lille is not the only one to gain ground on OM, pending the Rennes match (4e, 41 points) against Nîmes on Sunday (5 p.m.): Monaco brought back a point from Dijon (1-1) and temporarily replaced two Breton units. Aligned, the Islam Slimani-Wissam Ben Yedder-Stevan Jovetic trio had long struggled to destabilize the DFCO, and the ASM fell back a bit in their defensive largesse on the goal of Mama Baldé. But Guillermo Maripan ended up finding a way to equalize. Robert Moreno's men get stuck at 5e place with 38 points.
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Angers-Montpellier: 1-0
The Héraultais (8e, 37 points), like their Monegasque rivals, will be disappointed, after a trip to Angers which could bring them closer to the podium. But they fell in front of Stéphane Bahoken, the attacker concretizing the Angevin domination – the SCO had hit the crossbar twice before! – at the end of the game to finally reassure his troops after four defeats (1-0).
The Alsatians remain solid sixth in the championship after their draw against Amiens.
