The last round in France… Marseille chasing the champions’ seats

Monaco and Marseille are looking for a point to guarantee participation in the Champions League next season, while Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne are seeking to avoid relegation to the second division in the last thirty-eighth stage of the French Football League. (All matches of the last round will be played tonight at 22:00 Beirut time). Monaco and Marseille share second place with 68 points, with a goal difference advantage for the Principality team, and three points ahead of Rennes, their only pursuit over the remaining two cards for the prestigious continental competition, which Paris Saint-Germain secured its title early.

Monaco is visiting Lens VII (61 points) and aspiring to the “Converse League” competition, while Marseille plays with Strasbourg fifth (63 points) and is seeking the European League “European League” ticket, and Rennes, who is two points away from Strasbourg, is a guest of The tenth night and the champion of last season. A draw is enough for Monaco and Marseille to seal their tickets to the Champions League, but they will seek to win to ensure the runner-up, which entitles its owner to qualify directly to the group stage, while the third-placed player is forced to enter the third preliminary round.
Monaco hopes to continue the uprising that it launched on March 20, by defeating Paris Saint-Germain with three clean goals, after which it won the full mark in eight consecutive matches, to raise its victories to nine in a row and 20 this season. But Monaco’s task will not be easy in front of Lens, the winner of its last two matches, and it hopes to lose Strasbourg and Nice to its host, Reims, to finish the season in fifth place and secure the Conference League ticket.
For his part, Marseille aspires to compensate for its loss against Rennes (0-2) in the last stage and reconcile its fans by ending the season with a victory that guarantees him the Champions League ticket next season, although his task will be difficult against Strasbourg, which is aroused by a draw with Paris Saint-Germain (3-3) and two wins over Brest and Clermont-Ferrand. Strasbourg clings to its hope in the Europa League ticket by defeating Marseille and serving from Lille by defeating Rennes, who is also interested in the three points to guarantee the ticket to at least the European League or the Champions League in the event that Monaco and Marseille loses falter because it is ahead of them by a difference of goals (+42 versus +25 for Monaco). and +21 for Marseille).

(AFP)

On the other hand, two of France’s greatest football institutions, Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne, are on the brink of relegation to the second division when they visit Brest and Nantes respectively. Bordeaux, in last place, three points behind Metz 18th and Saint-Étienne 19th to the last, seems closest to farewell to the first division. Even a win away from Brest will not save Bordeaux, even if Saint-Etienne and Metz lose because they are behind them by a large difference in goals (-41 compared to -35 for Saint-Etienne and -29 for Metz), while Saint-Etienne has chances to at least grab the eighteenth place. Which forces its owner to play a play-off with the play-off in the second division between Auxerre and Sochaux, because Metz is a guest of Paris Saint-Germain, crowned with the title, in the last match, probably for the latter’s star, Kylian Mbappe, who is nominated to move to Real Madrid.
Mbappe, whose contract with the capital club expires at the end of next month, will seek to settle the league’s top scorer title, leading by one goal over Monaco international striker Wissam Ben Yedder (25 vs. 24).
In the remaining matches, Angers plays with Montpellier, Clermont-Ferrand with Lyon, and Lorient with Troyes.

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