Ligue 1 – 11th day
After each day of Ligue 1, FF.fr debriefs the matches through what has pleased or not the editorial staff. Eleventh episode of the season.
We liked
This Delort which continues to take on another dimension
He was a bit like a fiery bull the Andy. To disperse in all directions, to make speak above all his power and his relative effectiveness in front of the cages when he was in confidence. A difficult to read player capable of wonderful papinades but also of having too many empty passages. The hour of maturity has sounded and this Delort does not stop day after day to expand his range of footballer. Since becoming an Algerian international and particularly since the start of the season, the native of Sétois has taken a real step forward. Author of two goals and an assist against Strasbourg, Andy Delort was voluntary, fine in his deflection game, but also able to compensate for races and go into exile on the side when necessary. All the paraphernalia of a complete attacker. To wonder if he will still make old bones on the side of the Paillade, because this Delort would have his place in a squad a little more upscale, for sure.
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Delort Laborde on Sunday at 3 p.m. pic.twitter.com/WGT4xzyJ3r
– Scipion (@Scipionista) November 22, 2020
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Between his relaxation against Yunis Abdelhamid in the last seconds of Reims-Nîmes, but also his intervention on the dangerous strike of Mathieu Cafaro (53rd), then at close range in front of El-Bilal Touré (64th), we believed to find the Baptiste Reynet from Dijon! Remember the 2016-17 season: if the DFCO had not been relegated, the native of Drôme had a lot to do with it. Even to the point of being named among the four best goalkeepers in Ligue 1 for the UNFP Trophies (Danijel Subasic had been elected). After two much more delicate seasons in Toulouse, where he experienced relegation with the Violets, Reynet (30) is therefore trying to make up for lost time in Nîmes. His XXL performance in Reims is undoubtedly his best of the season. Is it now launched to become a wall again?
Reynet future golden ball.
-? PatouNîm0is? (@ Patou_Nim0is) November 22, 2020
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The amazing association (d) Fabregas-Volland
Three goals, a comeback and a tattered defense of Paris Saint-Germain, such is the work of the Cesc Fabregas – Kevin Volland duo during the ASM victory against the capital club (3-2). So obviously, we ask for more from Niko Kovac. Besides Wissam Ben Yedder, the Croatian technician is holding a new string to his bow that he can draw at any time. Even if the former Arsenal no longer has the cash to hold an entire match, he still has enough oil in the engine to get in and put a happy mess on the meadow. Above all, the passing quality of the Spaniard combines perfectly with the sense of the call and the positioning of the German. Not necessarily obvious at first glance, the footballing union of the two men nevertheless broke into broad daylight at the Louis-II, and it could well prove to be very useful to the Principality’s club in order to grab the podium.
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Simply huge! Fabregas? and volland what to say. 3 goals against Paris is strong! Congratulations to the whole team for having been able to react! Daghe Munegu! #ASMPSG
— Munegu66 ?? (@Munegu0666) November 20, 2020
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Honorat-Cardona-Mounié, the winning triplet from Brest
Goal festival at the Francis-Le Blé stadium last Saturday. Efficiency (5 shots on target, 4 goals), permutations, desire to play for each other, the agreement was perfect. Everything suggested that these three men had been evolving together for several months. Nay. Franck Honorat and Steve Mounié arrived last summer while Irvin Cardona landed last year. On their lawn, the three men managed to find the way to the nets. In point of attachment, the former Huddersfield weighed heavily in the central axis, leaving a lot of freedom to Cardona. It is also he who finds the former player of the Greens to open the scoring before the roles are reversed on the third goal. It’s simple, the three players are involved in 14 of the 19 goals scored by the Bretons this season. This Monday, Brest is the fifth attack in France.
? @irvin_cardona is on fire right now!# SB29ASSE pic.twitter.com/iBwvtLtZBo
— Ligue 1 Uber Eats (@Ligue1UberEats) November 21, 2020
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The perseverance of Jonathan David
As if LOSC needed this. The Mastiffs have lost only once this season, went to win at San Siro, are only two points behind PSG, have Renato Sanches, Jonathan Bamba or Yusuf Yazici (among others) to players shining brightly, and lo and behold Jonathan David wakes up. Or rather wakes up. Sunday, at the end of the game against Lorient, the Canadian scored the fourth and last goal for his team, but especially his first in the North. He had to wait more than 800 minutes to shake the nets. Purchased more than 27 million euros this summer, David worried, failures repeated week after week. But his part in front of the Merlus was the illustration of his beginning of history in Lille: missed opportunities, difficulties in the last gesture, amounts affected but an interesting participation in the game. With finally, by dint of hanging on , not to let go in the head, David was rightly rewarded. Freed from a weight, will he put himself at the level of his teammates? If this is the case, PSG had better be on guard …
We didn’t like
The catastrophic performance of Abdou Diallo
There are students who need only one mistake to correct their course. And then there are those, like Abdou Diallo, who are wrong on several occasions without really understanding the lesson. Earlier in the season, the former Borussia Dortmund had already failed, being sent off against Metz. But the unexpected victory of his own nine against eleven thanks to a goal in the very last moments of Julian Draxler had certainly made the central defender forget everything. So he put it back against ASM with far more consequences. A red, a penalty conceded, a defeat and the symbol of a passage to Paris Saint-Germain more than delicate. Arrived in the capital club at the request of Thomas Tuchel, Diallo, bought 32 million euros, never really knew how to find his place. And it is not by multiplying the blunders that he will make one and that the confidence, which he very clearly lacks, will return.
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Has Abdou Diallo had a good match since joining PSG? He is undoubtedly very nice, but there … dramatic.
– Hadrien (@hadrien_grenier) November 20, 2020
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The Rennes attack down
Despite the recruitments of Martin Terrier, Jérémy Doku and Sehrou Guirassy this summer, the Rennais Stadium struggles to convince offensively. Look instead at the copy made Friday night with the defeat in front of Bordeaux … Of the last seven matches for the Bretons, in all competitions, only Guirassy (against Krasnodar, on penalty, 1-1) and Adrien Hunou (against Angers, 1-2 ) managed to shake the nets. A worrying situation for Julien Stéphan and his men since during the last victory against Brest (2-1), defenders Nayef Aguerd and Damien Da Silva had allowed Stade Rennais to win … Rennes begins to pay dearly for this lack efficiency and the shadow of Raphinha hangs over the Roazhon Park side.
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Thinning of Bordeaux
After a really disappointing start to the season, we finally got a little excited watching Bordeaux play this weekend. However, without being a bad language, we were far from imagining that while waiting for the troops of Jean-Louis Gasset on the lawn of Rennes. Especially by rethinking the previous meetings against Monaco (0-4) and Montpellier (0-2). But the Girondins ensured with a solid hinge led by the experience of captain Laurent Koscielny, a very valuable Otavio in the midfield and a decisive Hatem Ben Arfa and back in form. The Girondins can and must build on this success to finally launch their season.
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You have to use strong words. Because too much is too much. We first had a lot of pain for Romain Thomas, but then we were outraged to watch in slow motion the knee-forward exit of Anthony Lopes on the Angevin defender when we had not even played for a minute in this Angers- Lyon. More than one player would have given up his place after such a blow. A disproportion in the intervention of the Portuguese who was far from being in danger on this easy air exit. “As I take my pulse, I felt a shock on my back, confessed the defender to The team. I don’t even know how he came to knock me out. I’m not the sissy type but I even thought I was going to have to go out, I was in so much pain. “ We can therefore only rise up against such an intervention, but also against such a lack of reaction from the refereeing body and the VAR. How could such an action have passed without viewing? And finally, it is to wonder how long can this type of action go unpunished?
The exit of Lopes, who has just broken at least 3 ribs for Romain Thomas? #SCOOL pic.twitter.com/ZRmj5EvQaE
– PiedsCarres (@PiedsCarres) November 22, 2020
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Johan Tabau, Benoît Desaint, Paul Giffard, Samuel Zemour and Timothé Crépin
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