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Brilliant Boudebouz Seals Montpellier Safety

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Brilliant Boudebouz Seals Montpellier Safety “We’re the first team in history to stay up after taking one point from the first seven games. That’s going to shut certain people up.” After Montpellier all but sealed Ligue 1 safety last week by demolishing already-relegated Troyes, midfielder Ryad Boudebouz can’t hav...

The Weekend's Top Tips in Europe

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The Weekend's Top Tips in Europe The last shots for title could be fired this weekend, even if there is more than a month to go before the endof the season. The Ligue 1 title has already been assigned and Europe’s other top leagues are close to being settled.AC Milan vs Juventus - Draw First Half @2.00The is effectively oneof...

Team Focus: Hantz Return Worth the Wait for Montpellier

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Team Focus: Hantz Return Worth the Wait for Montpellier All things come to those who wait. The 2015/2016 season has been, thus far, the season of the coaching comeback in France. Following the return of the popular Frédéric Antonetti to Ligue 1 with Lille after a two-and-a-half year absence, it was the turn of another much-missed entra&icir...

League Focus: Relegation Battle Warms Up French Winter

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League Focus: Relegation Battle Warms Up French Winter One of the most curious, and most-quoted, statistics of the first half of the Ligue 1 season was a by-product of Paris Saint-Germain’s growing dominance of French football. Going into Christmas, second-placed Monaco were closer to the bottom three (13 points away) than they were to Laurent Bla...

Team Focus: Pressure on Courbis as Montpellier Struggle Without Last Season's Stars

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Team Focus: Pressure on Courbis as Montpellier Struggle Without Last Season's Stars The very first goal of a team’s season should be – and usually is – a moment of great joy and release, sweeping away the cobwebs after a few months off, and opening the route towards an exciting new campaign, replete with fresh hopes and possibilities.That has not, sadly, been the ...

Team Focus: Can Montpellier or Lille Handle a European Campaign?

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Team Focus: Can Montpellier or Lille Handle a European Campaign? When Montpellier look back on this campaign, it is almost certain – judging four games from its climax – that they will do so with a certain satisfaction, bearing in mind their means, particularly compared to those of their Ligue 1 peers. Nevertheless, there have been a few bubbles of di...

Team Focus: Lens Refuse to Lie Down and Accept Fate

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Team Focus: Lens Refuse to Lie Down and Accept Fate It’s not often that a team waking up in 19th place in Ligue 1 on a mid-December morning can feel pleased with itself, but Racing Club de Lens is an exception. One of the more evocative names in the French game have been a welcome re-addition to the top-flight since their promotion; all the mor...

Match Focus: Coach Courbis Resurrects Old Magic to Undo In-form Rennes

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Match Focus: Coach Courbis Resurrects Old Magic to Undo In-form Rennes “When you don't respect certain principles of effort and technique, football is brutal, and it’s brought us back to reality.” Philippe Montanier's summary of the abrupt end to Rennes' 8-match unbeaten run on Saturday night - with a surprise 4-0 home defeat to Montpellier - was in k...

Team Focus: Montpellier Move Towards Safety but Can They Keep Cabella?

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Team Focus: Montpellier Move Towards Safety but Can They Keep Cabella? As Montpellier closed on an unlikely title triumph in 2012, their colourful president Louis ‘Lou Lou’ Nicollin decreed such an exploit “impossible” in one of his rare printable comments about his club’s progress. A tricky start to this season, leading to the departure o...

League Focus: Three Pivotal Matches in Ligue 1’s Battle at the Bottom

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League Focus: Three Pivotal Matches in Ligue 1’s Battle at the Bottom Montpellier v MonacoThis should read as a meeting of some promise, with the 2012 champions taking on stylish, nouveau riche visitors. In fact, we have two teams with wildly divergent aims. Montpellier have lost the fewest matches in the bottom nine (6) but are hovering above the drop zone, with only...