After the disillusionment of the Blues at the Euro, Ligue 1 resumed its rights, this Friday, August 6, in the Principality with a Monaco-Nantes scent of the 80s. PSG, dispossessed of its title last May by Lille, started from the next day with a short trip to Troyes, one of the two promoted with Clermont, a completely neophyte Auvergne club at this level.
Orphans of their guide Christophe Galtier, who left for Nice, and of their international goalkeeper Mike Maignan transferred to AC Milan, the Mastiffs take the stage on Sunday in Metz.
Thirty-eight days lasting, from August to May 2022, this championship is supposed to keep us going as long as the hegemony of Neymar and his band is, once again, subject to challenge.
Such a scenario would then embrace completely new contours.
TO BE PRINTED.
The calendar of the 2021-2022 season of Ligue 1
Because if the Montpellier of René Girard in 2012, then the Monaco of the very young Kylian Mbappé five years later, had already succeeded, before the Losc, to precede the Parisian ogre on the highest step of the podium, the latter had never turned the other cheek from one year to the next. The failure of spring has, moreover, struggled to pass in the capital. It is clearly a mess. The reinforcements of Achraf Hakimi, Georginio Wijnaldum, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Sergio Ramos outline a strong trend. The leaders want to replace, without delay, the church in the middle of the village and to grant only crumbs to the 19 other teams of the elite. On the glossy paper, at least, Mauricio Pochettino undoubtedly has the richest and largest workforce ever since the arrival of Qatar in 2011.
In Marseille, where we are starting to believe in it again with the boiling Jorge Sampaoli at the helm, we are feeding on somewhat crazy hopes. Some people will say chimeras. We have nevertheless already circled the dates of the Clasico in red. Act 1 will take place at the Orange Vélodrome, on October 24. The two best enemies will then put the cover back on April 17 at the Parc des Princes. Each time, we cross our fingers, in the presence of the public. Football without supporters really doesn't make much sense. All the players agree on this point. But other meetings, less media-oriented but just as important, will obviously weigh on the outcome of a competition pompously dubbed in the summer of 2018 "the League of Talents".
