Ligue 1: Lyon KO and Europe at risk; Marseille still second with two games to go

Paris 5 May 2025 - The fight for Europe rages on in the final season of France, with the Paris Saint-Germain spectator, already seated on the throne of France. Parisians however who willingly or unwillingly risk becoming a factor, having returned from the first two defeats of their Ligue 1 against teams in open contention for Europe. Marseille snatches a draw in the away game Lille and maintains its second place with two days to go in the championship. Strasbourg he doesn't want to leave the group fighting for the Champions League, as the falls Lyon against Lens, lagging behind in the standings. In the relegation zone the Le Havre shortens on the direct safety zone, while also the St. Etienne is on the brink of the precipice, after the arithmetic relegation of the Montpellier.

The outcome of the weekend's matches

The French football weekend opens with two important matches in the fight for Europe. The Nice suffers, but brings home with a match of great suffering a very precious victory atAllianz Rivierathat Stadium Reims deserves at least a point, but fails to break through. Super match by Bun between the posts, with at least two very precious saves for the final success by only 1-0. After the first defeat of the last day, he loses again the psg in a match where the Strasbourg is good and lucky to take advantage of a soft approach from the Champions. The goal in the second half of Barcelona fails to bring the equaliser, thus setting the result at 2-1 for the home team. Three golden points for the Racing, chasing a 20-year-awaited return to Europe, in the middle also a failure and a restart from the fourth series. 

Tolosa e Rennes, both already safe, finished their match 2-1 in favour of the Violets, while the Monaco closes Saturday's day by beating 1-3 St. Etienne away. For the Monegasques three very important points in their pursuit of Champions League. This victory brings the team from the principality back to third place, a position that is worth qualifying for the championship phase of the next major competition. Uefa. For the black and greens, however, a defeat, which brings them to just two points from mathematical relegation in Call us 2. 

Sunday of Ligue 1 opens with a very important success in the safety zone, where theAngers beats the Nantes, overtaking him in the standings and bringing the yellow-greens closer to the play-off zone, while at the same time keeping the Le Havre. This is because the team from Northern France won its match against theAuxerre for 1-2, keeping alive their hopes of direct salvation. Success also for the Stade Brest on the already relegated Montpellier, the red and whites however are already mathematically out of European competition for next season. 

The third to last day of Ligue 1 It ended with two great challenges: the first at Parc OL saw the Lyon to fall by surprise against the Lens. To the team of Fonseca he fails to play his usual high-tempo game, surrendering to the red and gold, who, with this 1-2, can still dream of Europe with the Conference League. Olympique instead loses the Europe group and now must hope for the mistakes of their rivals, to try a last minute comeback. Marseille instead keeps its place in the Sun at least for another day. The boys of De Zerbi they don't win, but they snatch a fundamental point from the Stade Pierre Mauroy, House of Lille. Against the mastiffs of Northern France it is 1-1, with the latter forced to recover the initial disadvantage, after the guests' advantage, signed by GouriThe group regroups in the area Champions League.

Ligue 1 matchday 32 results

Nice-Stade Reims 1-0: 18' Sanson.

Strasbourg-Paris Saint-Germain 2-1: 20' aut. Hernandez (S), 45+3' Lemarchal (S), 46' Barcola (P).

Toulouse-Rennes 2-1: 28' Gboho (T), 65' Kalimuendo (R), 82' Donnum (T). 

St. Etienne-Monaco 1-3: 2' Akliouche (M), 65' Davitashvili (S), 68' Al Musrati (M), 78' Balogun (M).

Auxerre 1-2 Le Havre: 62' Sinayoko (A), 79' author. Jubal Junior (L), 90+2' Sangante (L).

Nantes Angers 0-1: 52' Allevinah.

Stade Brest - Montpellier 1-0: 15' Del Castillo.

Olympique Lyon-Lens 1-2: 21' Koyalipou (L), 79' Mikautadze (OL), 85' Zaroury (L).

Lille-Olympique Marseille 1-1: 57' Gouiri (M), 74' Fernandez-Pardo (L).

Ligue 1 standings matchday 32

Psg 78, Ol. Marseille 59, Monaco 58, Nice 57, Lille 57, Strasbourg 57, Ol. Lyon 54, Lens 48, Stade Brest 47, Auxerre 41, Rennes 38, Toulouse 38, Stade Reims 33, Angers 33, Nantes 32, Le Havre 31, St. Etienne 27, Montpellier 16.

Il Paris Saint-Germain is arithmetically champion of France. The Montpellier is arithmetically relegated to Ligue 2.