As the home stretch looms, the Ligue 1 clubs are advancing their pawns to position themselves for this 28th day. To start with Saint Etienne which operates a delicate journey to Lille, Friday. The Greens are still engaged in their maintenance operation and have finally managed to get their heads above water by climbing painfully to 17th place. They will face Lille undefeated for four games in L1 and who above all have an impermeable defense. Losc (7th) looks especially at the top of the table and smells the right move: a victory would allow him to overtake Nantes (6th) and Strasbourg (5th).
Saturday, Nantes can continue its good progression in the classification in the event of victory at Troyes. On his side, Nice moves to Montpellier with the firm intention of maintaining second place. But the Aiglons will have competition: Marseilles and reindeer can claim the place of dolphin in case of success. On Sunday, OM travel to Brestand the Bretons go to Lyons.
Finally, the survival mission of Bordeaux looks complicated this weekend. The red lantern of the championship faces the leader Paris at the Parc des Princes. The capital’s players will certainly want to turn the page on their Champions League fiasco, eliminated by Real Madrid (3-1) on Wednesday. The Bordelais have been adrift since the start of the year, where the only victory (4-3) against Strasbourg on January 23 appears to be an anomaly in the midst of the five defeats and two draws recorded. His defense, the worst in the championship, took on water from all sides before challenging the Parisian armada, the best attack in L1 in the wake of the untenable Kylian Mbappé (14 goals, 10 assists).