What is returnee Lucien Favre doing? What effect do the returnees Lacazette and Tolisso have? These are more intriguing questions than the Ligue 1 championship.
In contrast to the Bundesliga, the League 1, which starts on Friday (05/08/2022) with the game between Olympique Lyon and AJ Ajaccio, has been a varied affair over the past ten years with regard to the championship. After all, there were three different title holders: the AS Monaco 2017, the OSC Lille 2021 and stop eight times Paris St Germain.
The probability that PSG in the 2022/23 season will win the eleventh championship and then be the sole record champion is close to 100 percent. The squad with the top stars Lionel Messi, Neymar and is too good Kylian Mbappetoo great the financial advantage.
Will be more exciting, like the new coach Christopher Galtier proves itself, especially in the Champions Leaguein which a triumph is not so easy to buy. Galtier won in 2021 with Lille the title.
From a German point of view, at PSG the question is interesting as to whether the two German national players are still in the service of the club, which is financed and managed from Qatar, at the probable championship celebration. Julian Draxler wasn’t even taken on the PR tour to Japan, where the team also prepared for the season.
Thilo Kehrer was there, but is currently also training in the group around Draxler, which does not seem to play a role at Galtier in the future.
Favre back in Nice
Christopher Galtier changed from OGC Nice to the capital, on the French Riviera becomes Lucien Favre now his successor. Before the Swiss switched to Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga in 2018, he was already there OGC – and quite successfully.
Nice is credited to play qualifying for an international competition. the Champions League but may be difficult to achieve. Second in the table League 1 is directly qualified for the group stage of the European elite league, the third enters in the third qualifying round.
Monaco and Lyon first contenders for Champions League
The first candidates for the two places are considered AS Monaco with the three Germans Kevin Volland, Ismail Jakobs and Alexander Nübel in the squad. The coach at the Monegasque is the Belgian Philip Clementwho replaced Niko Kovač, who was on leave and now working for VfL Wolfsburg, in the winter of 21/22.
Embolo from Gladbach to the Principality
Prominent newcomers are Breel Embolo from Borussia Mönchengladbach and Takumi Minamino from Liverpool FC. The departure of Monaco weighs heavily Aurélien Tchouamenialthough Real Madrid also paid 80 million euros for the 22-year-old France international.
The highest sums that are due for additions must be befitting PSG transferred. The master paid for Vitinha from the FC Porto and Nuno Mendes from Sporting from Lisbon each about 40 million euros.
Continue at Olympique Lyon works Peter Bosz, formerly at Ajax, BVB and Bayer Leverkusen. He was with OIL only eighth last season. Especially with the returnees Alexandre Lacazettethe free transfer from Arsenal FC came, and Corentin Tolissofree transfer from FC Bayern, will Lyons but rated much better again.
Olympique Marseille and Stade Renneswhich has been training exceptionally good footballers for years and then sells them for a lot of money, like the 17-year-old is now Mathy’s phone for a rumored 20 million euros to FC Bayern, are considered clubs that are most likely to be in the fight for qualification for the Champions League could intervene.
AJ Auxerre back
Of the FC Toulouse, AJ Ajaccio and AJ Auxerre are the climbers in the League 1. Auxerre was in 1996 under the coaching legend Guy Roux Champions and fought memorable duels in the European Cup with Borussia Dortmund in the 1990s. Ten years ago the club got out of the League 1 off, now came up again, because the AJ themselves in the relegation against the AS St Etienne prevailed, who still had the record of ten championship titles PSG Splits.
After the descent, fans of St Etienne the pitch and attacked players from their own team. Last season there were many incidents and violence in French football and especially in the Ligue. There is still a lack of conclusive explanations as to why this was the case. In this respect, the French are also hoping for a return to calm in 2022/23.