Emirs and Princes: the PSG vs Monaco clash of the titans of Ligue 1 Season 2013-14

PSG 19 44
Monaco 19 41
Lille 19 40
Bordeaux 19 31
St Etienne 18 30

How it stands at winter break. I've only seen 7 or 8 full games and an hour highlights package each week. But what the heck this is an eleven of players who have impressed me so far

--------------------------- ENYEAMA (Lille) ----------------------

-- BERIA (Lille)-DJILOBODJI(Nantes)-SALL(St Etienne)--BEDIMO(Lyon)

-----------------------VERRATTI(PSG)---DIDOT (Toulouse)-----------

-JOUFFRE(Lorient)------------RODRIGUEZ(Monaco)-------PAYET(Marseille)

-----------------------------LACAZETTE(Lyon)-----------------------

Unlucky to miss out- Sane,Aurier, Mountinho,Souare, Rivieri, and a couple of fellas who play up top for PSG.

falcao injured and out for the rest of the season, might not even be able to take part in the world cup. sucks

Yeah what a bummer. Was keen to see how Monaco would do in the season' s crunch time

let's be honest the title this year was always going to be psg's but with falcao there was a glimmer of hope that someone could go toe-to-toe with them. tbh i'm really more bummed about him potentially missing the world cup.

sounds like a dangerous tackle by some worthless lower league hack trying to get a reputation

some Colombian drug lord might have him assasinated, a la Escobar

Zlatan with a very zlatan goal in the cup semifinal at Nantes.

so the big game ended up pretty even - fair results for both teams

yeah. although, like for the first game, Paris was above. in a way, I'm glad Paris didn't win because with 8 points over Monaco, the league would have been over.
with 5, there's still some tension !

and Zlatan's final chance was crazy, how he controlled the ball. Monaco's GK was very good.

Been v impressed with Toulouse's Martin Braithwaite this season.

very nice goal from lyon to tie it 1-1 in the derby against st étienne.

wow, bielsa at marseille

i guess he just enjoys coaching teams playing in leagues dominated by two teams
but yeah the rumors were around for the past week but most marseille fans seemed to aboid talking about it so as not to jinx it. bielsa in ligue 1! this is awesome, can't wait to see what he does with marseille. curious to see which palyers will stay and go this summer considering what a great coach they'll be playing for.

surprised to see gignac continued and even improved his goalscoring from last year

still looks ridiculously out of shape and might struggle if he is asked to press relentlessly by bielsa

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/OM_-_FC_Porto_-_Valais_Cup_2013_-_Andr%C3%A9-Pierre_Gignac.jpg

if you asked marseille fans, most would probably tell you that he's had a shitty season. it's kind of surprising that he's actually scoring, though still far from the season that brought him to marseille from toulouse (24 goals iirc) yeah he always looks out of shape, bordeaux fans made fun of him at a game some time back by singing "un big mac pour gignac" ("a big mac for gignac"). actually, i think i might have already told that story here.

im a fan of any player who manages to sustain a high level career despite being borderline obese, however he achieves it

what of the younger players at monaco like ocampos? also read that james is getting back into form after starting slowly

and the whole cavani issue, he doesnt seem happy

dunno too much how it's going for ocampos. james has been doing quite well lately, scored a few goals and had a few assists.
cavani may not seem happy and considering the noise that's been made after his poor performance against chelsea, in his position of choice, he's not likely to feel any better

btw nakh when you posted about bielsa i thought it was a done deal. but it's not confirmed, even though it made front page of l'équipe today so this could still go the way of other classic marseille done deals like jardel coming

Really good win for Lyon. PSG mostly threatened from set pieces - look a shadow of their best when Zlatan's out. Ferri was excellent for Lyon.

coming back to gignac, burger king got in on the fun and is mocking him too. see their twitter account, announcing the opening of a new BK in marseille :
https://twitter.com/BurgerKingFR/status/456688901378162688
their message says: we've never been good with rhymes, our thing is burgers.

Berbatov just out-Berbatoved himself with the most nonchalant lob I've seen in ages.

It was exceedingly Berbatov
http://31.media.tumblr.com/c583aa46e2feb20afdf7191eac4b2d61/tumblr_n4c11hNuUM1rm4zado2_r1_400.gif
http://24.media.tumblr.com/e1df17a9823f21cf1140ef01b0da5627/tumblr_n4c11hNuUM1rm4zado1_400.gif

Helene Costa, first female manager to be appointed for a french professional club!

Helene Costa quit on her first day?

yup - Club president commented "oh you know how women are..."

Five red cards in Marseille vs PSG, including Neymar who left the field claiming he’d been racially abused.

Nice vs Marseille has descended into chaos. Fans throw bottles at Payet, Payet throws one back, dozens of Nice supporters pile on to the pitch to chase after him and brawl with Marseille players.

This is the second match in two weeks suspended because home fans couldn’t stop chucking stuff at visiting Marseille players and it’s crazy that the ref didn’t stop this one sooner.

Marseille players didn’t want to resume the game. Nice players were waiting on the pitch with the referees, Marseille never came back out and will lose the game 3-0.

— Julien Laurens (@LaurensJulien) August 22, 2021

Thats shameful if its carried through tbh

Is this the third or fourth Marseille march this season that has been suspended after their players were assaulted by opposing fans? I’m losing track.

Lyon / Marseille stopped after four minutes when Payet got hit by a bottle (again).