From: dvlkhh@cs.umu.se
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Subject: Le Championnat, week 6
Date: 14 Sep 1992 11:19:07 -0500
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Allo chers amis!
C'est l'heure du football :-) It includes: scores, comments, fixtures,
standings, scorers list and most of the second division results.
Contact me if you are wanting the articles by E-mail.
Comments welcomed!
Now, I'm just waiting for Eurosport and Eurogoals tomorrow....

Week 6 of "le Championnat" played the 11th-12th of September 1992

AJ Auxerre                   1         AS Saint-Etienne              0
    Guerreiro '90
    Auxerre struggled to go ahead all match against a Green side lead by
    excellent goalkkeeper Joseph-Antoine Bell, the normally very strong
    AJA attack failed time after time to beat the Camerounian who put off
    many good saves. Especially some great work on three occasions when Gerald
    Baticle went clear with him in the second half. Otherwise, the home
    fans were also frustrated with the referee who decided to not call an
    obvious penalty when Bell fouled AJA captain William Prunier in the area.
    The ref continued to be unpopular at l'Abbe-Deschamps with sending off
    home defender Stephane Mahe some minutes from time. On the other end,
    National keeper Bruno Martini saved for Moravcik and Etienne Mendy
    (one of them curved around the post to a resultless corner). Finally,
    in the dying minutes, Christophe Cocard forced Bell to another save
    and the rebound was caught by Raphael Guerreriro at the second post
    and the winner was there. A very entertaining match and finally a goal,
    too. Auxerre were not as impressive as they have been earlier at home,
    they are going to Bulgaria (Plovdiv) on Wednesday for the UEFA Cup first
    rond, first leg.

Havre AC                     0         FC Sochaux-Montbeliard        0
    Sochaux came to Havre for taking their first point on the road and they
    got it. The home side are known for their good defence with goalie Fabien
    Piveteau, but their attack can't be said to be famous rather infamous in
    the aspect of scoring inability. I really understand why they got Danek
    last year - though that was not the player for the French league. Now,
    they have tried with a Georgian (who played in Poland), but Guruli has
    still to get a goal. They are scoring too few goals, this time Bruno Roux
    had the best chances. They have to score more if they shall get close
    to the UEWFA Cup place they almost got last season. I should also say,
    that the goals they score are often scored by different players.

RC Lens                      1         FC Girondins de Bordeaux      2 :-) :-)
    Sirakov '53                             Zinedine Zidane '28
                                            Rhonan Salaun '81
    The match of the week coz Girondins were playing :-) We got a good
    start with propaganda play in the first half and it was just Varmuz who
    stopped us from going heavily up at the break. Zinedine Zidane celebrated
    the first match our three main attackers started together with grabbing
    a goal midways thorugh the half. Cristophe Dugarry had a great chance
    saved by Varmuz when the home defence were nowhere. Valdeir had another
    in the first minute of the second half and he really made the sloppy
    defence crazy beating three, four defenders at times. Lens have to do
    something about their defence, Varmuz seems to have found the play needed
    for D1, but the rest. After Girondins controlling the first 50 minutes,
    the home side awoke with a well combined attack, Sirakov shot and
    Huard made a great save, the rebound wasn't cleared away and after
    another rebound, the Bulgarian recovered the ball near the spot and
    drilled the equalizer home. Our defence had for the third time out of four
    we have got the lead lost the advantage. And the coming thirty minutes
    saw the home side pushing forward and our defence looked tired (again!),
    now it was Gaetan Guard who saved us with some excellent save. He made
    an incredible save with catching the ball at the post, for example.
    The referee saved us or rather Laigle did, Zinedine Zidane break thorugh
    and went clear on one of the few counter attacks, Laigle tackled him
    and was red carded (for a professional foul, I suppose, it wasn't clear
    on the radio). Lens continued to put Girondins under pressure and Rhonan
    Salaun replaced (who?) around ten minutes from time, the first time he
    got the ball, he started a great counter attack with running down the
    left flank, he had two teammates in the middle of the box and the rebound
    from Varmuz dropped down at his feet to give him an easy stroke that
    went home with Varmuz already beaten :-)
    RCL failed to grab their first victory and we went back into the
    Championnat after some disappointing matches. Next week see a top match
    at Lescure when Monaco visit us. A huge crowd expected.

Olympique Lyonnais           2         RC Strasbourg                 2
    Gava '23                                Keller '20
    Debah '82-p.k.                          Keller '65
    Marc Keller got the first goal with Franck Gava equalizing three minutes
    later to show me that L'Ohele have overcome their scoring problems.
    Marc Keller put the home side into deep troubles with a second in the
    middle of the second half. A late penalty called after a foul by Franck
    Mary on the Lyon attacker James Debah was giving the home side a point.
    Debah transformed himself from the spot. Bad news for Racing was the
    severe ligament inujury on midfield gigant Yvon Pouliquen, he might miss
    the remainder of the season. Confirmation, anyone? This will be costly
    for Racing.

FC Metz                      1         Stade Malherbe Caen-C-B-N     0
    Zitelli '?
    (Played the 11th.)
    This match was showed on Canal Plus, Friday night and featured a Normand
    side in desparate search for European form, the home side stopped with
    plan with David Zitelli getting the winner. Caen are playing Zaragoza
    in the UEFA Cup midweek and their chances are very slim given their poor
    early season form.

AS Monaco                    0         Montpellier Herault SC        0
    Montpellier came for a draw and got away with it since Monaco only
    managed to create a few chances. Two small in each half with Enrique,
    Barros and Klinnsmann. Unfortunately, Man of the Match, Luc Sonor was
    injured seven minutes from time. Monaco are going to Mielec in Poland for
    the CWC on Wednesday and the injury might be worrying for Wenger.

Nimes Olympique              1         Olympique de Marseille        3
    Vercruysse '22-p.k.                     Boksic '34
                                            Boksic '39
                                            Pele '?-p.k.
    L'Oheme impressed in week five, but went down on a Philippe Vercruysse
    penalty before Allen Boksic put them back into the match. The young Croat
    scored the equalizer ten minutes from the interval and gave the visitors
    the lead five minutes later, poor Lionel Perez got the fingers on it, but
    couldn't hold it in play. In the second half, Nimes tried to go level,
    but Rudi Voeller was taken down in the box by goalie Perez. Since the
    German had missed twice from the spot against Auxerre, Jean Fernandez gave
    Abedi Pele the chance this time, Lionel Perez was unlucky again touching
    the ball which went in and the match was over. Earlier, Perez had saved
    shots from Voeller on counter attacks. OM go to Northern Ireland in the
    week to give the homesiders some show and some money from a big crowd.
    I actually think Marseille are third best in the competition after
    AC Milan and Barcelona, so they might end up in the final with a good
    draw and in Finals all can happen. Milan haven't nerves, though :-)

Paris-Saint-Germain FC       2         US Valenciennes-Anzin         0
    Weah '46
    Calderaro '79
    VA came from a victory in Montpellier, so they might have considered
    that they had a little chance to hold on for a point at Parc des Princes.
    PSG were surprisingly not ahead at the break, so Jorge had to give some
    talk in the lockers, I guess. Because at the kickoff Georges Weah
    recovered the ball and drove home the first goal and the match was over.
    The second goal didn't came soon, it came quite late actually and once
    again Georges Weah made a good work for David Ginola who found sub
    Francois Calderaro at the second post, 2-0. VA got one man sent off again,
    but Sylvain Matrisciano denied the Parisians more than two goals.
    PSG are still very impressive and I don't give their Greek opponents
    hope to score more than once in the tie, so they have to hold a clean
    sheet, if they want a second round place. I would be very surprised
    if PSG don't reach the quarter finals with this squad that would be real
    waste.

SC Toulon et du Var          1         FC Nantes-Loire-Atlantique    3
    Pineda '26                              Vulic '44
                                            Mankalele '56
                                            Loko '68
    Toulon got the start needed against strong opposition. They owned the
    first half and Michel Pineda scored the vital goal. On the stroke of
    half-time, Zoran Vulic drove home a freekick in usual fashion and that
    was the turning point of the match. The second half saw the best coming
    from Canaries. They went ahead when Mankalele scored his first even D1
    goal (I think) and Patrice Loko secured the victory to put Nantes within
    the top flight. Toulon back in struggling.

Toulouse FC                  0         Lille OSC                     0
    TFC are still searching for their first victory for the season, this
    time Jean-Claude Nadon denied all that hope with saving the few chances
    Bernard Ferrer had. The rest of the attack for TFC seem lost. Eric
    Assadourian had the chances at the other end, but Olivier Pedemas saved
    what he had to. Not a good match and TFC are in trouble.

                                   FIXTURES

Week 7 of "le Championnat" played the 19th of September 1992

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


STANDINGS - after 6 weeks:

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

SCORERS LIST:

PLAYER                  TEAM           GOALS
--------------------------------------------
Rudi Voeller            (OM)           4
Mohamed Chaouch         (Metz)         4
Olivier Pickeu          (Montpellier)  4
Patrice Loko            (Nantes)       4
Zoran Vulic             (Nantes)       4
Gerald Baticle          (Auxerre)      3
James Debah             (OL)           3
Ljubos Kubik            (Metz)         3
David Zitelli           (Metz)         3
Youri Djorkaeff         (Monaco)       3
Juergen Klinnsmann      (Monaco)       3
Georges Weah            (PSG)          3
Lubomir Moravcik        (StEtienne)    3
Marc Keller             (Strasbourg)   3
Franck Leboeuf          (Strasbourg)   3
Bernard Ferrer          (Toulouse)     3
Laurent Croci           (Bordeaux)     1
Christophe Dugarry      (Bordeaux)     1
Bixente Lizarazu        (Bordeaux)     1
Rhonan Salaun           (Bordeaux)     1
Zinedine Zidane         (Bordeaux)     1

                                    GROUP 2A

         Martigues           2         Sedan               0
         Perpignan           4         Rodez               1
         Mulhouse            0         Annecy              0
         Charleville         0         Nancy               0
         Louhans-Cuisseaux   3         Ales                2
         Epinal              0         Valence             1

         Martigues lead, no idea of the rest.

                                    GROUP 2B

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

         Rouen still unbeaten with 11, Beauvais have 10 and Niort 9
         after the first loss.

         Anyone who can post the current D2 standings?

Kent...
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