Ligue 1: the challenges of the penultimate day, from the race to Europe to that for maintenance

The 2024-2025 Ligue 1 season enters its final stretch. If Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) has killed suspense in the coronation for a long time-validating its 13^e Title of French football champion from April 5 – other issues animate this end of the year for other elite residents while on Saturday May 10 at 9 p.m., simultaneously, all the 33 meetings^e and penultimate day.

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Qualifying places for the Champions League

Seven teams can, mathematically, claim the podium, synonymous with qualification for the league phase of the Champions League (C1). A grail as much sporty and economic for clubs.

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PSG dolphin, Olympique de Marseille (2^e59 pts) is best placed, ahead of a Monaco point (3^e58 pts) and two Nice (4^e57 pts), Lille (5^e57 pts) et Strasbourg (6^e57 points). “We are second and we have our destiny in hand. We know that it is essential to qualify for the Champions League, for everyone: supporters, the city, we … (…) I think that by ending third, we would have a bitter little taste ”explained the Marseille striker Amine Gouiri in an interview with the France-Presse agency.

Olympique Lyonnais (7^e54 pts), although still in the running, has been dropped and now points to three lengths from the fourth place, validating a place for the dams of the most prestigious European cuts. In difficulty in the field and on the finance side, the Rhone club must win in Monaco on Saturday and count on other favorable results to save its season.

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As a reminder: the fifth of Ligue 1 will compete in the Europa League league phase; The sixth will play the qualification tour of the Europa league conference. If PSG won the Coupe de France final, on May 24 against Reims, the ticket for the Europa League rewarding the winner of the oldest French competition will be postponed to the sixth in the championship, the seventh then playing the Europa Conference League.

The posters of the clubs concerned:

Angers-Strasbourg

Le Havre-Marseille

Rennes-Nice

Brest-Lille

Monaco-Lyon

Marseille-Rennes

Lyon-Angers

Nice-Brest

Lille-Reims

Strasbourg-The haven

Lens-Monaco

Race to maintain the elite

The dice are already played for Montpellier. But who will accompany the Hérault club (18^e16 pts) in Ligue 2 at the end of the season? Five other training courses are struggling to save their place in the elite: Saint-Etienne (17^e27 pts), Le Havre (16^e31 pts), Nantes (15^e32 pts), Angers (14^e33 pts) and Reims (13^e33 pts), which stand in six points.

The stay granted to ASSE by the disciplinary committee of the Professional Football League, on May 7, after the incidents occurring during the April 20 derby against Lyon, left the Greens a hope of staying in Ligue 1, a year after their ascent. But said hope is tenuous. The club has a difference in disastrous goals ( – 39 against – 30 for Le Havre, – 16 for Nantes, – 20 for Angers and – 11 for Reims) and the calendar of the Canaries, which will receive Montpellier after having moved to Auxerre (10^e41 pts) – which has nothing more to lose or win – does not help. It seems complicated for Saint-Etienne to keep his place in the elite without, at least, go through the dam box (opposite the winner of the league 2 accession dams).

The posters of the clubs concerned:

Reims – Saint -Etienne

Auxerre-Nantes

Angers-Strasbourg

Le Havre-Marseille

Lyon-Angers

Saint-Etienne – Toulouse

Lille-Reims

Strasbourg-Le Havre

Nantes-Montpellier

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