From: dvlkhh@cs.umu.se
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Subject: Le Championnat, week 8
Date: 28 Sep 1992 14:27:12 -0500
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Allo mes amis!
French football round-up again, this time delayed due to RFI brain damage.
The blokes at RRFI only boadcasted the 25 first minutes of the second half!
Incredible!
So, A BIG THANKS TO VINCENT LATASTE who saved this edition of the show...
Also thanks to Pierre Crosland for comments on Thursdays games.
All articles also distributed by E-mail, contact me for further info.
Comments welcomed!

Average attendance for week 7: 13334

Week 8 of "le Championnat", played the 24th and 25th of September 1992

AJ Auxerre                   2         Lille OSC                     0
    Vahirua '2
    Verlaat '22
    (Played Thursday the 24th)
    Auxerre are as you all know very strong home at l'Abbe-Deschamps and
    this was no exception. The home side won easily as expected and the
    visitors who have scored only three goals in seven games could indeed
    not beat the national keeper. Pascal Vahirua grabbed the first for AJA
    early on with a shot from 25 metres and Franck Verlaat headed home
    the second on a corner twenty minutes later. A Lille defender stopped
    it, but the referee judged that the ball was over the line. Lille never
    recovered and Auxerre couldn't increase the score. AJA move to second
    in the standings and have the UEFA Cup in midweek.

FC Girondins de Bordeaux     1         RC Strasbourg                 1
    Zidane '57                              Santos '62-o.g.
    Att.: 20000
    Bordeaux: Huard; Croci, Senac, Santos, Lizarazu;
              Zidane, Dogon, Guerit (Valdeir '80);
              Marquet, Salaun, Dugarry (Daniel '12).

    AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! :-( :-(
    I really had to get that off my chest! This was a very poor match with
    a very sad end for Girondins and it's better to forget it as quick as you
    can dear Girondins fan M. Hedlundh. Girondins had more of the ball,
    but the attack was very weak with the injury of talented Christophe
    Dugarry after just twelve minutes of play and Valdeir only playing ten
    minutes. That left Rhonan Salaun as the lone striker and he couldn't break
    the guests defence himself. Just one chance in the first half on a
    freekick by Liza excellently saved by the keeper. In the second half,
    Girondins took the lead with a beautiful strike from the edge of the box
    by Zinedine Zidane which left Sansone chanceless. Minutes later disaster
    struck when Gaetan Huard was going for the ball after a Racing attempt,
    unfortunately, Marcio Santos intercepted and sent the ball into the own
    net. Really sad for all of us coz Santos was along with Dogon the only
    players who can be praised for playing up to their standards, the rest
    weren't much to write home about and Marquet was terrible. President
    Afflelou said that players might be fired after this dismal performance.
    For the Strasbourg fans there aren't much more to celebrate, either, the
    performance weren't great by them either, they had good control of the
    ball when they got it, but failed to create chances supposedly due to the
    absence of Yvon Pouliquen. I don't dare to write more about this match,
    a match we should have won with 1-0 if not the defence had choked up,
    I really feel with the Brazilian! Next week see us travelling up the
    coast to Nantes to play Canaries at Beaujoire, hopefully we got a point
    there.

Havre AC                     0         AS Saint-Etienne              1
                                            Passi '21
    Gerald Passi struck home the only goal in the first half and that gave
    the Greens a valuable away victory. LHAC tried to substitute, Georgian
    Guruli with Bruno Roux at the break. He created more, but Joseph-Antoine
    Bell stopped all this excellently. Le Havre are lacking a real center
    forward. (Oh! That is not my words, it's the word of the commentator,
    maybe I know something after all...)

RC Lens                      2         Olympique de Marseille        2
    Hutteau '3                              B. Boli '50
    Laigle '80                              Voeller '61
    (Played the Thursday the 24th)
    Hutteau (Lens) red card 20th.
    Canal+ had chosen this match and it looks to have been a quite good choice,
    four goals isn't bad. Last season this match attracted over 48,000
    spectators, I assume the crowd was a bit smaller this time, but it have
    to be a large crowd, anyway. The home fans got hopes of their first
    victory of the season when young Emmanuel Hutteau made his second of
    the season in less than five matches driving home a freekick 20 metres
    out on the left side of the box! Afterwards, he thought he had made
    enough and picked up a red card on 20 minutes after a foul on Basile Boli.
    That wasn't as popular along the home crwod as the goal, I suppose... RCL
    held on the first half while OM dominated. The guests grabbed the
    equalizer with national defender Basile Boli on a corner just after the
    break. L'Oheme took the lead when Rudi Voeller finally hit the net again
    after going goalless for some league matches. It came after good work by
    Abedi Pele and a pass from ex-Bordelais Jean-Marc Ferreri. The home side
    never gave up, though and were always extremely dangerous on breakaways.
    One of these counter attacks lead to a corner that the OM defence failed
    to clear away and Pierre Laigle grabbed his first of the season to be
    the saviour, ironically, he wwas the guy who helped Girondins to win
    two weeks ago by being sent off. This was the fourth draw for Lens which
    really have to win soon to stay out of trouble, their fans deserve that!
    OM are playing Champions' Cup football at Velodrome on Wednesday, but it
    isn't very interesting since they have 5-0 from the first leg to stand on.

Olympique Lyonnais           2         Montpellier Herault SC        1
    N'Gotty '18                             Der Zakarian '13
    Garde '29
    L'Ohele who still hadn't won against Montpellier who seemed to have
    lost their early season form. The visitors go ahead early with the home
    side equalizing five minutes later and even taking the lead before the
    break. What I heard the home fans could thank James Debah for the victory,
    he was behind all they created and the Liberian striker seems to fit well
    at Gerland. Two very valuable points for the Lyon side and Montpellier
    continue to sank.

FC Metz                      0         US Valenciennes-Anzin         0
    After a very uninteresting scoreless first half isn't worth commenting.
    In the second half, the home side moved forward and created lots of
    chances, especially Mohamed Chaouch tried to beat Sylvain Matrisciano.
    But, Matrisciano held his clean sheet and VA got a point. Which will be
    important in the future.

AS Monaco                    3         FC Nantes-Loire-Atlantique    1
    Gnako '33                               Moreau '84
    Klinnsmann '39
    Gnako '60
    Monaco who have showed bad form lately versus Nantes who hadn't lost,
    this would be a real test of the young Canaries side. Jerome Gnako
    put the Monegasques back on track and Juergen Klinnsmann returned
    to scoring, minutes later. Monaco could have got a handful, but David
    Marraud played well and had help by his posts. Jerry Gnako sailed the
    game early in the second half and it was late before Nantes managed
    to beat Jean-Luc Etorri, at that stage had Patrice Loko had a couple
    wasted. The consolidater was young Stephane MOreau who is new in the
    Nantes squad this season, the rest of them weren't good at effeciency.
    This was the first loss of Canaries this season, time will tell if they
    can recover from losing their unbeaten streak. I think this signals a
    return to winning for Monaco, they are playing Legnica in the CWC on
    Wednesday at Canal+ before OM take on Glentoran on the same channel.
    Oh dear, what wouldn't I have given to be able to see French football on
    tell! Five matches this week which I can't see :-(

Nimes Olympique              1         FC Sochaux-Montbeliard        1
    Monczuk '21                             Garande '88
    Les Gardois got new hope in the midweek with the news of Laurent Blanc's
    loan from Napoli. They showed this with a goal by notorious goalgetter
    Didier Monczuk in the first half and had control of the match until
    the final minutes when Patrice Garande denied them their first victory
    of the season and the home fans can't be satisfied. Nimes are still in
    troulbes, it will be interesting to see what Blanc can do for them.

SC Toulon et du Var          1         Stade Malherbe Caen-C-B-N     1
    Pineda '80                              Gravelaine '30
    Toulon wasted numerous chances in the first half and Xavier Gravelaine
    grabbed the goal of the half which was very unfair. In the second half,
    Caen looked to be thinking of Zaragoza and the very tough away leg in
    the UEFA Cup while the home side looked to be more and more tired with
    all the missed chances in front of Philippe Montannier (I assume he was
    the goalie). Finally, when the game looked to be over, Michel Pineda
    put the teams level. Still a very good score for Malherbistes, they seem
    to have retrieved some of the form of last season and are out to give
    Zaragoza a fight on Thursday. This is indded very surprising if you look
    at what Caen produced only three weeks ago! Toulon are in even bigger
    troubles with scoring than LHAC and Girondins...But, Lille are the
    absoulute worst on this aspect.

Toulouse FC                  2         Paris-Saint-Germain FC        2
    Hernandez '36                           Weah '80
    Debeve '49                              Ricardo '82
    TFC without a win against leaders PSG, looked to be an away victory
    on paper... Ahum, the home side showed great play after the sacking
    of coach Zvunka on Monday, his successor is Serge Delmas.
    Jean-Fracois Hernandez picked up the first to break Bernard Lama's
    606 minutes long unbeaten record. It was in the 60th minute in week 1 he
    last let in a goal, since then the Paris kepper has hold a clean sheet,
    quite good. Michael Debeve got the second after the new backpass rule was
    used - since Bernard Lama had to pick up a ball from a defender. Nemecek
    took the inderict free kick and Debeve got it past Lama. PSG looked very
    weak in setting up pressure on Olivier Pedemas who had a good game. TFC
    almost created the surprise of the season and had the two-nil lead with
    just ten minutes remaining. And then, Georges Weah scored, the time left
    saw heavy pressure from PSG as you surely can imagine and Brazilian
    dfender Ricardo levelled the score just two minutes later. PSG need
    to have their solid defence back on Thursday when they are visiting
    Tessaloniki and the PAOK stadium for the return leg in the UEFA Cup.
    More to come...  I think Serge Delmas might be able to lift TFC from
    last in the standings, especially after this great performance.

Week 9 of "le Championnat", played the 4th of October 1992

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


STANDINGS - after 8 weeks:

TEAM                         PL   WON  DRAWN LOST  GF-GA   PTS
==============================================================
Paris-Saint-Germain FC       8    5    3     0     14-3    13
AJ Auxerre                   8    6    0     2     15-5    12
FC Nantes-Loire-Atlantique   8    5    2     1     17-10   12
Olympique de Marseille       8    4    4     0     15-9    12
AS Monaco                    8    4    2     2     13-8    10
AS Saint-Etienne             8    4    2     2     11-8    10
FC Girondins de Bordeaux     8    3    4     1      7-5    10
FC Metz                      8    2    5     1     12-8    9
RC Strasbourg                8    2    5     1     10-11   9
Montpellier Herault SC       8    3    2     3     10-7    8
FC Sochaux-Montbeliard       8    3    2     3      6-12   8
Stade Malherbe Caen-C-B-N    8    3    1     4     11-10   7
Lille OSC                    8    2    3     3      3-8    7
Olympique Lyonnais           8    1    4     3      8-11   6
Havre AC                     8    1    4     3      5-8    6
SC Toulon et du Var          8    1    4     3      5-12   6
RC Lens                      8    0    4     4      8-14   4
US Valenciennes-Anzin        8    1    2     5      5-11   4
---------------------------------------------------------------
Nimes Olympique              8    0    4     4      6-13   4
Toulouse FC                  8    0    3     5      8-16   3


SCORERS LIST:

PLAYER                  TEAM           GOALS
--------------------------------------------
Rudi Voeller            (OM)           5
Xavier Gravelaine       (Caen)         4
Mohamed Chaouch         (Metz)         4
Juergen Klinnsmann      (Monaco)       4
Olivier Pickeu          (Montpellier)  4
Patrice Loko            (Nantes)       4
Zoran Vulic             (Nantes)       4
Georges Weah            (PSG)          4
Lubomir Moravcik        (StEtienne)    4
Bernard Ferrer          (Toulouse)     4
Gerald Baticle          (Auxerre)      3
Pascal Vahirua          (Auxerre)      3
Natko Sirakov           (Lens)         3
James Debah             (OL)           3
Allen Boksic            (OM)           3
Basile Boli             (OM)           3
Ljubos Kubik            (Metz)         3
David Zitelli           (Metz)         3
Youri Djorkaeff         (Monaco)       3
Jerome Gnako            (Monaco)       3
Japhet N'Doram          (Metz)         3
Marc Keller             (Strasbourg)   3
Franck Leboeuf          (Strasbourg)   3
Michel Pineda           (Toulon)       3
Christophe Cocard       (Auxerre)      2
Daniel Dutuel           (Auxerre)      2
Franck Verlaat          (Auzerre)      2
Bixente Lizarazu        (Bordeaux)     2
Zinedine Zidane         (Bordeaux)     2

    No second division due to the same as in the header :-(

Kent...
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| Dept. of Computer Science | France and Sweden for the WC'94!                |
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