Larigot goals, Bordeaux restarts and a match is stopped again

6-1, 6-2: this is not a tennis mark but the results of the respective victories of Paris-Saint-Germain in Clermont, and Lorient against Saint-Etienne. Offensive cards carrying regrets for the Parisians but which sink the Greens a little more with an annoyed Pascal Dupaz.

The 31^and Ligue 1 day as a whole was very prolific. Rennes consolidated its place on the podium in Reims (3-2) unlike Nice who saw it move away to Lens (0-3). Bordeaux, for its part, won the match of fear against Metz (3-1). As for Marseille, winner of Montpellier (2-0) a week before their confrontation with PSG, they strengthen their place as runners-up in Ligue 1.

38

The French men’s football championship had not known this for fourteen years. With 38 goals scored in the ten games of the 31^and day, the Ligue 1 attacks had a field day: all the lawns saw goals, and with the exception of Nice and Montpellier – respectively beaten in Lens (0-3) and Marseille (0-2 ) – all teams scored at least one goal this weekend.

If this day remains far from historical records (the highest total of goals on a day dates from the 1949-1950 season, with 55), the 38 goals scored this weekend have only been supplanted once in the twenty recent years: in 2007-2008, with 43 goals planted during the 38^and daytime. If the winter had a bit hoarse the average of goals of the championship, the attacks are again at the party.

38 – There were 38 goals scored on Matchday 31 of Ligue 1 2021/22, only Matchday 38 of the 2007/08 edition… https://t.co/syt8Edna4j

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Hwang Ui-Jo’s tears after his liberating goal at the end of the match (3-1, 88^and) said a lot about the crucial importance of this meeting. By winning against Metz (3-1), Sunday April 10, at Matmut Atlantique, his team left the last place in the standings to his opponent of the day. The Bordelais regain hope for the maintenance by replacing themselves one point behind Saint-Etienne, play-off, and two points behind Clermont, the first non-relegation player.

The case was however badly embarked in this “six-point match”. Metz struck first through Didier Lamkel Ze (21^and). For the thirtieth time in 31 days, Bordeaux conceded a goal. This time, the Girondins were able to react, ignoring their current difficulties, to reverse the fate of the game. Ricardo Mangas (52)^and) equalized before Mbaye Niang allowed his side to take the lead (68^and). Holder for the second time this season in Ligue 1, the striker scored his second goal only in the league, the first since… November 6, 2021. His help could not hurt his attacking friend Hwang Ui-Jo, the club’s top scorer thanks to his eleventh goal of the season scored at the end of the game.

Was it therefore necessary to go through a rout in Madrid and noises of spring cleaning so that they finally get along? To see the demonstration of Paris-Saint-Germain in Clermont (6-4), Saturday April 9, and the agreement displayed by its trio of stars, Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi and Neymar, the Parisian supporters must have regretted that it does not happen any sooner.

The three attacking players will therefore have waited for the end of a championship not far from being folded (12 points ahead of their Marseille dolphin) to be brilliant at the same time. Faced with a team, admittedly very permissive, their complementarity broke out in Auvergne – Kylian Mbappé and Neymar offered themselves a hat-trick and an assist each, while Lionel Messi distributed three caviars –, while it was in Madrid that their supporters would have preferred to discover it.

“It’s a shame it’s only happening now, recognized Kylian Mbappé at the microphone of Canal + Décalé. There are circumstances that made us fall a little behind. » But the bitterness is great two days before the quarter-final return of the Champions League which will take place without PSG. It remains for the Parisians to seriously negotiate the “Classic”, the confrontation against Marseille, next Sunday.

• The statement of the weekend

” It is a sin of pride, a conceited attitude. This is not an attitude that befits a professional footballer. »

When Pascal Dupraz is angry, he lets it be known. And having seen his team break up on the lawn of Lorient on Friday (2-6), direct competitor in the race to maintain, makes the coach of the Greens see red. Engaged since winter in a “maintenance mission”, the former technician of Evian-Thonon-Gaillard and Toulouse regretted the sufficiency of his team, which had quickly led 2-0, before losing ground.

“The coach’s responsibility is to constantly repeat to the players that football respects itself and that, when you start a match like the one we did, you must not overdo it, scolded Dupraz. You have to respect the fundamentals. » For Saint-Etienne, which now occupies the 18^and place in the championship, the final sprint promises to be tense.

Ligue 1 thought its eruption of fan overflows was over. Alas, the meeting between Brest and Nantes on Sunday was, in turn, interrupted following an attempt to intrude spectators on the lawn. One of these spectators was arrested, the Brest prosecutor’s office told Agence France-Presse (AFP). After a first brief interruption in the first period, due to the throwing of smoke bombs, the referee sent all the players back to the locker room for thirteen minutes.

“It pisses me off, whether it’s my supporters, or the opposing supporters. Since the start of the season, we have seen unacceptable, horrible things. All the supporters, we will have to change our mentality., lectured the Brest defender, Brendan Chardonnet, after the meeting at the microphone of Prime Video. Otherwise, in addition to this new episode of a season dotted with incidents from the stands, the two teams parted ways in a draw (1-1).