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The takeover of PSG, the success of “Chacal” Armel Le Cléac’h and Sébastien Josse in the Transat Jacques Vabre in the Ultim category, the good form of French tennis players who end their season on a good note and the return of French internationals on the pitches of the Top 14 marked this sports weekend, Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 November. Franceinfo: sport sums up everything you shouldn’t miss.
Ligue 1: Mbappé is on fire with PSG, OL are finally getting their heads above water
Paris Saint-Germain will have waited 12 days to take the lead in the French championship. The defending champion won 3-0 on the pitch in Reims on Saturday November 11, thanks to a hat-trick from Kylian Mbappé. Paris turned its head around after its disappointment at Milan in the Champions League, signing a fifth consecutive match in Ligue 1 with three goals scored. The goalless draws in Nice and Monaco put Luis Enrique’s men in command of the standings, before hosting the principality’s team the next day.
Sunday, Lyon heaved a big “phew” of relief by winning its first victory of the season in Rennes (1-0), against the struggling Bretons. OL nevertheless remain bottom of Ligue 1. Lens won by the same score against OM (1-0), thanks to a goal scored in the final moments of the match. The Sang et Or move up to 6th place in the ranking, Marseille is 10th.
Transat Jacques Vabre: victory in the Ultim for Armel Le Cléac’h and Sébastien Josse
After two weeks at sea, victory went to Maxi Banque Populaire XI. The Ultim of Armel Le Cléac’h and Sébastien Josse arrived first in Fort-de-France (Martinique), Sunday November 12, after a little more than 14 days at sea. In the lead since November 9, the two The skippers held on in their duel with another experienced duo, François Gabart and Tom Laperche, who arrived a few hours later on SVR-Lazartigue.
Le Cléac’h adds the Route du café to his list of achievements, after the 2016-2017 Vendée Globe and the Solitaire du Figaro, which he won three times. Josse, for his part, finds success in the Transat ten years after winning in MOD70.
Tennis: Ugo Humbert and Adrian Mannarino end the season with a title
End of the season with fireworks for French men’s tennis. Ugo Humbert and Adrian Mannarino won the ATP 250 in Metz and Sofia respectively, Saturday November 11. Humbert made a “childhood dream” come true by winning in front of his audience. Messin enters the Top 20 in the ATP rankings for the first time in his career (20th) and will finish the season number one in France. Adrian Mannarino follows right behind him, in 22nd place, after his fifth career title, the third in 2023. At 35, Mannarino is completing the best exercise of his career and has confirmed his consistency in recent months.
Top 14: Dupont, Penaud, Danty… Return to diesel mode for the French internationals
A return to the ordinary. Four weeks after the disillusionment in the quarter-finals of the World Cup against South Africa (28-29), a large contingent of French internationals played again this weekend in the Top 14. Anthony Jelonch (author of an essay ) and Thomas Ramos, for example, started with Toulouse against Perpignan (43-34), while Antoine Dupont came on for the last half hour.
Damian Penaud, for his part, began a new adventure with Bordeaux-Bègles, alongside Matthieu Jalibert and Louis Bielle-Biarrey. But the UBB’s XXL three-quarter line lost in Pau (11-20). It wasn’t much better for Jonathan Danty, Paul Boudehent and Uini Atonio, winners at the end of trouble with La Rochelle against Bayonne (18-15).