Bravo for Brest and bye to Mbappé: the complete Ligue 1 season review
Kylian Mbappé made the most headlines but the story of the year belongs to Brest, Eric Roy and Pierre Lees-Melou
May 2024
Monaco’s Mohamed Camara facing action for obscuring LGBTQ badge
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Monaco’s fun-loving style has taken them to the Champions League
April 2024
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PSG are champions but the drama has only begun for Ligue 1’s other 17 clubs
The fact that Montpellier could still qualify for Europe or be relegated shows how tight and tense the run-in will be this year
European football: Paris Saint-Germain claim 12th Ligue 1 title after Monaco lose
PSG extended their league championship record after Monaco lost 3-2 at Lyon while Maria Caputi and her all-female refereeing team made history
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Ligue 1’s fourth spot in the Champions League is now Lille’s to lose
European football: Ajax’s season hits new low after 6-0 Feyenoord thrashing
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Thilo Kehrer: ‘At West Ham we wrote history. It’s no longer the same club’
March 2024
European roundup: Leverkusen hold on to beat Freiburg; Inter held by Napoli
Bayer Leverkusen remained unbeaten in all competitions but were pushed all the way in a 3-2 victory at Freiburg while Juan Jesus earned a point for Napoli against the Serie A leaders, Internazionale
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Old dogs and new tricks: Aubameyang and Gasset drive Marseille’s revival
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang cannot stop scoring for new manager Jean-Louis Gasset
European roundup: Bayern lose further ground, Milan beat eight-man Lazio
Freiburg scored a late equaliser to inflict another title setback on Bayern while Lazio have three sent off in bad tempered defeat by Milan
February 2024
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The new-manager bounce is alive and well in Ligue 1
Lyon, Marseille, Nantes and Rennes have all enjoyed an uptick in results after changing managers
European roundup: Modric stuns Sevilla with late winner for Real Madrid
Luka Modric scored an 81st-minute winner for Real Madrid against Sevilla while Lautaro Martínez scored twice as Serie A leaders Internazionale beat Lecce 4-0
European football: Real Madrid denied by Rayo Vallecano’s Raúl de Tomás
The Spanish league leaders were held to a 1-1 draw at their city neighbours Rayo Vallecano while 10-man Milan lost 4-2 in stoppage time at Monza
January 2024
Folarin Balogun has underwhelmed at Monaco, but remains key to USMNT
Folarin Balogun has yet to replicate last season’s form following a summer move to Monaco. But he remains at the forefront of the USMNT’s plans
November 2023
European roundup: Harry Kane strikes again as Bayern Munich sink Cologne
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Le Havre are climbing up Ligue 1 with a team built on a shoestring
October 2023
European roundup: Juve beat 10-man Milan; Barcelona’s teen dream debut
Manuel Locatelli scored the second-half winner for Juventus at San Siro while the seventeen-year-old Marc Guiu found the net on his debut to give Barcelona victory over Athletic Bilbao
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Lens are well and truly back after a difficult start to the season
Franck Haise’s team lost four of their first five matches in Ligue 1 this season but are now racing up the table
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Young academy players led Monaco to the title in 2017. Will it happen again?
Monaco’s 3-2 win against Marseille this weekend was powered by a group of academy graduates. This feels very familiar
