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The league is about wrapping up and now we’ve got teams all chasing up for a spot in the UCL next season. In some leagues, we’ve still got huge battles going down for who takes the league. The competition for going to the UCL is always one fun time as when clubs are tied with close points, the competition between them gets interesting and the pressure can either help the team or destroy their hopes by making them lose points. The UCL is one competition that so many want a participation because of how high players hold this competition.This is Europe’s most elite competition and most players consider a club playing in such competition as top priority before giving in to signing for the club. The funds also that comes for participating in this competition is also needed by most clubs too, as we know how essential funds are to building a club.
After all these said, we focus on the French League and shift our focus to those who want to go to the UCL. We already know Psg to win this league as they’re points clear off Brest who sits 2nd. The main competition is for the other 2 spots which we’ve got about 3-4 teams all in contention. This is the kind of competition we want to see and we wish it could be extended to competing for the league title. Currently we’ve Brest and Monaco in 2nd and 3rd respectively and closest competition happens to be Lens and Lile. Many would want to see Brest and Monaco already grabbing tickets but for me I feel the fight isn’t over yet. Yes I said so especially as we saw brest losing out to Lile over the weekend.
Loss of points like this can put Brest under massive pressure and they can be overtaken by Lens or Lile. Monaco too aren’t fully safe as they must try to be at optimum performance to be able to get a spot next season. The clubs must know that any point lost now will be jeopardizing their hopes of UCL football next season. I would want to see Lile and Monaco join PSG as French representatives as the UCL is one competition that requires expertise and these clubs have the expertise to at least put up a performance in the UCL as compared to Brest or Lens.
This kind of competition with small margins and mutual efforts to surpass each other will continue until the competition is completely finished and determines with more certainty who is in the top position to get UCL ticket.
Ligue 1 is one of the leagues that provides the most teams for the UCL competition, but unfortunately they are league that has not been able to achieve much success in the UCL competition.
Just look at every team in the UCL competition that quickly lost and was eliminated from this competition and the only one that managed to appear competitive was PSG.
Like this season PSG is still in the quarter-finals, but I not sure that PSG will be able to beat Barcelona, this is tough quarter-final match for PSG and we will see how intense their match is.
If we talk about the 3 team that are below PSG in the Ligue 1 standings, we will find that the advantage and superiority in getting points for the upcoming match is indeed owned by Monaco, who will only play Lorient.
Lorient is one of the lower teams that has quite poor performance, there is no stability and consistency in every match so this match makes Monaco the favorite.
In contrast to Brest, which will face LOSC and in this match it is possible for draw to occur and the two teams must be willing to share points.