The Ligue 1 season 2023-2024 will deliver its verdict on Sunday, in a multiplex at 9 p.m. where the joys of qualifying for the European Cup and the tears of those relegated to Ligue 2 will intermingle.
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End clap on Ligue 1. After 33 hard-fought days, the French championship is preparing to bow out, with the finale being a multiplex scheduled for Sunday May 19 at 9 p.m. The opportunity to award the last tickets for the European Cups but also those for Ligue 2, or at least its play-off. Franceinfo: sport summarizes the latest issues for you.
Lens and Lyon in pole position for the Europa Conference League
If PSG (1st) and Monaco (2nd) are guaranteed to play in the Champions League next season and Nice (5th) will return to the Europa League, there are still several uncertainties. Lille (54 points, currently 3rd) and Brest (54 points, 4th) will compete remotely for the last directly qualifying ticket for the Champions League, with fourth place offering a ticket for the C1 play-offs. Sixth place, qualifying for the Europa Conference League, still has three contenders: Lens, Lyon and Marseille. The first two, who both have 50 points, are the big favorites to discover this European Cup set up by UEFA during the 2021-2022 season. Marseille, with 47 points, must for its part hope for missteps from its two competitors to be European.
Currently holding sixth place, Lens will host Montpellier, when Lyon will host Strasbourg. In great difficulty in its race for the C4 since its defeat on Wednesday against Reims (0-1), Marseille will face Le Havre at the Stade Océane.
Le Havre, Metz and Lorient in the fight to maintain
With 32 points, the HAC is not completely saved. But almost. Luka Elsner’s men are three steps ahead of Metz, 16th and current Ligue 1 play-off. And even if they lose to Olympique de Marseille on the last day, it is unlikely that they will regain the lead. cursed place. The Lorraines, with their 29 points and their negative goal difference (-21), must count on a defeat for the Normans and on their victory by more than eleven goals to finish 15th.
Except that FC Metz will host Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday, who certainly have nothing left to play but who intend to use this trip to the east of France as a dress rehearsal before facing Olympique Lyonnais in final of the Coupe de France, May 25.
Worse still, Messins could lose their play-off place and be sent directly to Ligue 2 if they lose their duel against the French champions and Lorient, 17th and currently relegated, wins against Clermont, already relegated, by more than seven goals difference. The Merlus can only hope for a misstep from Lorraine to secure the dams and delay the deadline for a potential relegation.