LIGUE 1 – Neymar (PSG) alive again, Poussin (Bordeaux) plucked, Delort (Nice) in beams: the tops and flops of Day 32

tops

• The Neymar that Paris likes to see

Neymar in particular didn’t stop there. It is also his ability to repeat efforts in attack as well as in defense that illustrated his physical return to first. This will not diametrically change the face of his 2021-2022 season, nor that of PSG. But this Sunday Neymar lived up to his status as a global reference who tends to wither away.

• Camara, timely return

• Delort, the double and the chambering

Their predictable striker is a diesel: Delort’s ten goals in Ligue 1 with the Riviera club came in the second half. He’s also a good customer. The former Montpellier player started a statement in next Wednesday’s derby against Monaco (6th): “Now, of course, we want to see a Louis II stadium full of… from Nice. Otherwise it is seldom the case.”

flops

• Poussin and the Bordeaux goalkeepers, it’s awkward

• Last in class in chess

Saint-Etienne made the big deal of the weekend. In fact, ASSE is the only team between places 9 and 20 to have won a game on its 32nd day. The four draws of the Multiplex on Sunday largely froze the positions and apart from the Greens, there were no headers in the second part of the table. Is it the problems at the end of the season that tense the players? While maintenance is likely to be played with a very low score given the disastrous seasons of Bordeaux and Metz, legs tighten and the show doesn’t suffer as the bottom twelve teams in the rankings have scored…11 goals this weekend. Sad.

• Strasbourg has cracked (again).

In recent months, Strasbourg has only won by a small margin. When Julien Stéphan’s team led 1-0 in the 84th minute, everything seemed normal. But a poorly played ball from the defense landed at Yoann Touzghar. The latter missed his shot and caused chaos with Mama Baldé, who was eventually broken by Lucas Perrin in the penalty area. Penalty, 1:1. In the category “Slightly stupid lost points at the end of the meeting”, Strasbourg does not make it straight away. On the last day against OL, Straymen had enough to end the game and were punished by Karl Toko Ekambi in the 90th (final score 1-1). At the beginning of March, the Alsatians conceded an equalizer in the 84th (1-1) in an archery-dominated encounter in Reims. Scattered dots here and there that weigh these last days.

• Angers, a salmon that doesn’t convince

The fashion for headless jerseys in baroque colors is far from the standards of clubs looking for new audiences. In this new wave of fortuitous successes, the Angers third kit, released by the SCO during the draw in Nantes (1-1), falls more into the tunic failure category. The colour, pale orange tending toward salmon, is a very far cry from the SCO’s historic colors (black and white). So why so bold? The press release states that this kit celebrates Anjou’s heritage. Maybe celebrate Anjou. Celebrating good taste, not sure.