Monaco (4th) returned to the height of Marseille (3rd) by beating Brest (1-0) in the first matches of the 17th day of Ligue 1, Sunday, where Nantes took four lengths of the margin on relegation by beating Auxerre (1-0).
Thanks to a superb strike from Russian Aleksandr Golovin, the Principality club has 33 points, like OM, who play in Montpellier on Monday (7:00 p.m.).
The Bretons dominated the second period but without scoring and remain the first relegated (17th). FC Nantes (14th) for its part distanced itself from the red zone by dominating Auxerre (18th) on a goal from Marcus Coco.
At the bottom of the standings, the SCO of Angers remains stuck in last place with a ninth defeat in a row, against the course of the game, against Lorient (2-1), revived after six games without a win.
At the Raymond-Kopa stadium in Angers, the stands were very sparse for this unusual day of January 1.
The loudest were the few hundred people from Lorient in the car park and the dozens of Moroccans who came to wave flags in honor of Boufal and Ounahi, the two SCO Lions who came fourth in the World Cup in Qatar.
Returning from vacation on Saturday, the two players were honored by the club and briefly greeted the supporters before kick-off
In Nantes, this “Celebration Week” wanted by the Professional Football League (LFP) also made people cringe. Supporter organizations had called for a boycott of the match to protest against the holding of meetings during the week and on January 1, with a Loire tribune banner saying: “LFP, broadcasters: your programming is killing our stadiums”.
The TFC won (2-0) against Ajaccio this Sunday, January 1. For their return to the Stadium, since November, the Violets have regained the taste of victory after a black series of four defeats and a draw in five games.
For Philippe Montanier (Toulouse coach): “We had a good match, very complete. It was a very important meeting and it’s good to get back to winning ways against a direct competitor. We have a small mattress of six points on the 17th but it can go quickly. We will face several competitors for maintenance and we will have to put the same ingredients into it”.
Olivier Pantaloni (coach of Ajaccio after the 2-0 defeat in Toulouse on Sunday during the 17th day of L1): “It was a day without, from start to finish. We never found the solution to annoy this Toulouse team. We lost against better than us and I’m almost happy to have lost only 2-0 because the goal average could be very important this season. It’s a game to forget.”
