Brest, the Ligue 1 surprise: the stories

It has a budget that is 6% of that of PSG, but comes immediately after in the standings. Thanks to a midfielder who doesn’t want to leave, a coach who seemed lost, an old-fashioned crowd…

Behind the Parisian princes, the pirates of Brest. The fairy tale continues for the Breton team. Indeed, the dream of playing in the Champions League next season seems increasingly achievable. The ranking says so, with that second place taken away from Francesco Farioli’s Nice and then consolidated with a string of useful results: from 26 November, thirteen matches played, for ten wins, three draws including the one with PSG. In short, this Brest, French-owned in a championship besieged by foreign investors, is no longer a coincidence, reborn with a coach that no one was counting on anymore and thanks to the plays of a player who should have left for money in January and who instead remained , to the delight of the public, one of the hottest in Ligue 1, despite its not exactly tropical geographical location.

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