From: dvlkhh@cs.umu.se
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Subject: Le Championat, week 14
Date: 9 Nov 1992 19:23:53 -0600
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Allo mes amis!
Ici mon enfin un fois :-) It includes: results, scorers, comments, fixtures,
standings, best scorers and even the second division updates.
Source: France Inter (via RFI). The show started at 19.30 UTC this time, so
we who listened didn't miss any action... Maybe there is hope for RFI after
all. Though, they didn't talk about the Cups on Wednesday.
Your comments are always welcomed and sometimes asked for...
If you want the articles by E-mail just let me know.

Average attendance for week 11: 13925
Average attendance for week 13: 12306

Week 14 of "le Championnat", played the 7th of November 1992

AJ Auxerre                   4         FC Metz                       0
    Cocard '14
    Pierre '21-o.g.
    Prunier '62
    Baticle '72
    Att.: 7000
    Auxerre are in tremendous form at the moment and they played against
    Metz who have played poorly lately. So, the outcome wasn't surprising
    with AJA completely outplaying the poor Messin. The first arrived on
    a Dutuel effort which was recovered by Christophe Cocard and the home
    side were in front. The second came on a Baticle cross which was
    deflected uluckily by Pascal Pierre who beat his own goalie and the home
    side were two up. In the second half, Corentin Martins sent a superb
    freekick for William Prunier to head home at the far post and finally
    Gerald Baticle completed the scoring when Thierry Bonalair found him with
    a tremendous freekick from the 40 meter and the young center forward made
    no mistake. Metez never worried Bruno Martini in the home goal, Standard
    Liege will have a huge task to beat this team in the third round of the
    UEFA Cup! The visitors on the other hand are in trouble...

FC Girondins de Bordeaux     2         Stade Malherbe Caen-C-B-N     0 :-) :-)
    Zidane '43
    Lizarazu '47-p.k.
    Att.: 20000
    First of all, I want to send my congratulations to BIXENTE LIZARAZU
    who is included in the selection for the Finland match next Saturday
    announced by Gerard Houillier in the week. I don't have the entire list,
    so I can't post it. The key to this match was to keep track of Xavier
    Gravelaine who had scored ten goals in only seven games, we succeeeded!
    Zinedine Zidane broke the deadlock when he beat the enitre Caen defence
    to drive home two minutes before the interval. Bixente Lizarazu settled
    the match from the spot two minutes inyo the second half after a foul
    against Valdeir (I think) by Montanier. Not much more to say, a very fine
    performance by Girondins who were the better side on the night. Hopefully,
    Courbis can give the players the motivation needed to turn around the
    poor away play off late to see us put up a better perfromance and
    hopefully we'll get points in Lille in two weeks time.

Havre AC                     1         Paris-Saint-Germain FC        1
    Guruli '28                              Weah '?-p.k.
    Att.: 12000
    PSG aren't in the best of forms nowadays and it was the home side who got
    the lead when Georgian Gija Guruli sent a fine freekick past Bernard
    Lama. The equalizer came on a dubious penalty awarded by referee
    Ramos on a foul on Valdo, LHAC protested heavily and their trainer
    said on the radio that it _never_ could have been a penalty, Ramos on
    the other hand said it was clearly a penalty. Georges Weah scored his
    ninth of the season from the spot. PSG had the best late in the match, but
    the score draw was quite fair.

RC Lens                      2         US Valenciennes-Anzin         1
    Dehu '38                                Kovacs '?
    Peron '73
    Att.: 35000
    A large crowd went up at Felix-Bollaert for this "Nordiste" derby.
    And the home side got a great start with chances for especially
    Omam-Biyik. And defender Frederic Dehu grabbed the lead to send the home
    fans wild. A well constructed attack ended with a cross from Wilfried
    Gohel allowed Kalman Kovacs to put the teams level. Jean-Francois
    Peron saved the night with a goal seventeen minutes from time and the home
    fans celebrated their first victory of the season and they might be
    on the way towards a solid form...

Olympique de Marseille       1         Montpellier Herault SC        1
    Boksic '29                              Ziober '78
    Abedi Pele sent Allen Boksic for the first goal with a good cross which
    the Croat headed home, Boksic continue to be the saviour for OM.
    Otherwise, l'Oheme looked tired after their European Champions' Cup
    tie on Wednesday and they had nothing to come with when Pole Jaczek
    Ziober snatched an equalizer with lobbing Fabien Barthez who had quit his
    line. Fabrice Divert had at that time, failed on several attempts.
    The home fans ended the match whistling after a bad display by their
    favourites.

AS Monaco                    3         Lille OSC                     0
    Djorkaeff '35
    Klinnsmann '59
    Klinnsmann '71
    Monaco were putting the guests under pressure from start, but seemed to
    lack the finishing touch as they have done most of this season. Emmanuel
    Petit made his return to the squad after two months absence due to injury.
    Luis Enrique took a freekick which was reached by Youri Djokaeff.
    The visitors had a golden chance to go level when Edgar Borges made
    a superb flick to Eric Assadourian who was taken down by Jean-Luc
    Etorri in the box. The goalie defended his reputation as a penalty
    specialist by taking the kick from Dane Per Frandsen to save the lead at
    the break. The second half saw Juergen Klinnsmann finally find his scoring
    ability again when he sent a Christian Perez pass behind Jean-Luc Nadon
    who otherwise had a good night. Jean-Luc Etorri was behind the third goal
    with a goal long kick which went all the way over the pitch to Klinnsmann,
    the ex-Inter player dribbled Nadon to grab a double. Lille are in
    trouble and Monaco might have found their form, finally!

FC Nantes-Loire-Atlantique   1         FC Sochaux-Montbeliard        1
    N'Doram '8                              Caveglia '33
    Att.: 22000
    Canaries got a quick goal which should have killed the match, but didn't.
    Reynald Pedros worked well and Japhet N'Doram pushed it home. Alain
    Caveglia got his first of the season and levelled the score before the
    break on  the visitors first chance of the game. The Sochaxu defence were
    rock solid for the rest of the match and the home side failed to take the
    expected victory.

Nimes Olympique              1         Toulouse FC                   1
    Buffat '50                              Bancarel '65
    Att.: 13000
    Alain Casanova had an excellent match for TFC and Nimes didn't break the
    deadlock until the start of the second half when Christophe Buffat
    recovered after a Didier Monczuk shot. Lionel Perez had also an excellent
    game, but couldn't save a magnificent volley from Anthony Bancarel on
    a cross from the right by Vaclav Nemecek who once again was the driving
    force behind Toulouse. Otherwise, Perez saved a couple of one-to-ones with
    TFC forwards, Michel Pavon, Michael Debeve et al. The commentator wanted
    Lionel to play for France!

AS Saint-Etienne             1         RC Strasbourg                 2
    Mendy '11                               Hughes '70
                                            Cobos '85
    Att.: 20000
    The Greens got the perfect start at Geoffroy-Guichard when Lubomir
    Moravcik forced Sylvain Sansone out of play and served Etienne Mendy the
    goal on a silver plate. A remarkable second half saw Michael Hughes,
    the player signed from Manchester City stroke a rocket freekick from
    25 meters into the goal defended by Joseph-Antoine Bell who had
    absolutely no chance! This was the Irish first goal for Racing.
    Les Stephanois went down five minutes from time to the fans disbelief,
    a great score for Strasbourg and a shck for Stephanois.

SC Toulon et du Var          0         Olympique Lyonnais            0
    Berenguier (Toulon) red card 16th.
    Toulon got a nightmare start with marching orders for Jean-Louis
    Berenguier on sixteen minutes. The match was all Lyon attacking, but the
    home side stood up and kept the score to nil. Lyon aren't very
    effective at the moemtn and they had to take their tenth draw in 14
    matches. Toulon, well they don't have any attack, it seems, they are
    in big troubles!

Week 15 of "le Championnat", played the 20th of November 1992

Stade Malherbe Caen-C-B-N    v         FC Nantes-Loire-Atlantique
Lille OSC                    v         FC Girondins de Bordeaux
Olympique Lyonnais           v         Havre AC
FC Metz                      v         Nimes Olympique
Montpellier Herault SC       v         RC Lens
Paris-Saint-Germain FC       v         AJ Auxerre
    (I expect Canal+ to move this match to Thursday...)
FC Sochaux-Montbeliard       v         AS Saint-Etienne
RC Strasbourg                v         Olympique de Marseille
Toulouse FC                  v         SC Toulon et du Var
US Valenciennes-Anzin        v         AS Monaco


STANDINGS - after 14 weeks:

TEAM                         PL   WON  DRAWN LOST  GF-GA   PTS
==============================================================
FC Nantes-Loire-Atlantique   14   9    3     2     30-12   21
Paris-Saint-Germain FC       14   7    6     1     26-10   20
AJ Auxerre                   14   8    3     3     26-12   19
AS Monaco                    14   8    2     4     21-12   18
Olympique de Marseille       14   6    6     2     20-14   18
FC Girondins de Bordeaux     14   6    4     4     14-10   16
Montpellier Herault SC       14   6    4     4     15-14   16
AS Saint-Etienne             14   6    3     5     15-13   15
RC Strasbourg                14   4    7     3     19-20   15
Stade Malherbe Caen-C-B-N    14   5    3     6     22-20   13
FC Sochaux-Montbeliard       14   4    5     5     12-21   13
Havre AC                     14   3    6     5     14-17   12
Olympique Lyonnais           14   1    10    3     11-14   12
FC Metz                      14   2    8     4     15-20   12
Nimes Olympique              14   2    8     4     15-20   12
Lille OSC                    14   3    5     6      5-17   11
US Valenciennes-Anzin        14   3    4     7     17-21   10
Toulouse FC                  14   1    8     5     12-19   10
---------------------------------------------------------------
RC Lens                      14   1    7     6     12-23   9
SC Toulon et du Var          14   1    6     7      7-19   8



SCORERS LIST:

PLAYER                  TEAM           GOALS
--------------------------------------------
Xavier Gravelaine       (Caen)         10
Georges Weah            (PSG)          9
Olivier Pickeu          (Montpellier)  7
Japhet N'Doram          (Nantes)       7
Gerald Baticle          (Auxerre)      6
Patrice Loko            (Nantes)       6
Philippe Vercruysse     (Nimes)        6
Pascal Vahirua          (Auxerre)      5
Allen Boksic            (OM)           5
Rudi Voeller            (OM)           5
Mohamed Chaouch         (Metz)         5
Youri Djorkaeff         (Monaco)       5
Juergen Klinnsmann      (Monaco)       5
Zoran Vulic             (Nantes)       5
Didier Monczuk          (Nimes)        5
Lubomir Moravcik        (StEtienne)    5
Franck Leboeuf          (Strasbourg)   5
Daniel Dutuel           (Auxerre)      4
Zinedine Zidane         (Bordeaux)     4
Stephane Paille         (Caen)         4
Ljubos Kubik            (Metz)         4
Reynald Pedros          (Nantes)       4
Francois Calderaro      (PSG)          4
David Ginola            (PSG)          4
Etienne Mendy           (StEtienne)    4
Bernard Ferrer          (Toulouse)     4
Jorge Burruchaga        (Valenciennes) 4
Kalman Kovacs           (Valenciennes) 4
Christophe Robert       (Valenciennes) 4


                                   GROUP 2A

         Nancy               1         Sedan               1
         Istres              1         Nice                0
         Mulhouse            2         Louhans-Cuiseaux    2
         Annecy              1         Bastia              4
         Creteil             1         Valence             2
         Rodez               2         Ales                0
         Charleville         2         Epinal              0
         Perpignan           0         Cannes              1
         Ajaccio             2         Martigues           0

         Sedan 19; Martigues 18; Bastia, Cannes 17.
         Hmmm, maybe Cannes and Bastia are coming...
         Any comments?

                                   GROUP 2B

         Tours               2         Ancenis             2
         Dunkerque           3         Amiens              0
         Le Mans             4         Lorient             1
         Laval               2         Bourges             0
         Guingamp            1         Niort               1
         Beauvais            1         La Roche sur/Yon    0
         Red Star 93         2         Angers              0
         Gueugnon            1         Rouen               0
         Chateauroux         0         Rennes              1

         Rouen 21; Rennes 20; Angers, Beauvais 19.
         Rouen lost their first match of the season which allowed
         title favourites Rennes to close the gap. Angers are the dark
         horse. Any comments?

Kent...
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