Monaco Lyon Nice Toulouse Football Results

Warred by the defeat conceded from the entrance by Olympique de Marseille to Rennes at the opening of the Ligue 1 season, AS Monaco and Olympique Lyonnais properly launched their championship by winning, Saturday August 16, respectively against Le Havre (3-1) and Lens (1-0).

Under the eyes of Paul Pogba, flagship recruit of the Monegasque transfer window not yet physically able, the club of the Principality did not know any difficulty in dominating at the Louis-II stadium very weak Le Havre. Several attempts, signed Jordan Teze, Takumi Minamino or Mika Biereth, quickly showed that Monaco was above his opponent and the confirmation came in 32^e Minute on a goal against his camp by Gautier Lloris, threatened by the Tenu de Golovine center (1-0).

After the break, the English defender Erik Dier, who came free this summer from Bayern Munich, doubled the head on a corner well struck by Lamine Camara (2-0, 61^e). Completely harmless until then, Le Havre has managed to reduce the gap on its first and only occasion or almost, thanks to a nice goal from Rassoul Ndiaye (2-1, 67^e) on which the new Monegasque goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky could do nothing.

His partners quickly resumed two goals in advance thanks to Maghnes Akliouche-for the moment still there despite an exit voucher-, well served by his captain Denis Zakaria (3-1, 74^e).

While waiting for Pogba’s return to the field in a few weeks and the first appearance of the former FC Barcelona Ansu Fati, another big summer signature, Monaco held his rank.

Helpless Thauvin

Lyon is also in the tone at the start of the school year. While the maintenance in Ligue 1 of the club, in great financial difficulty, was only acted on July 9 before the National Management Control Management Commission (DNCG) thanks to liquidity contributions, the jolts behind the end of the offseason did not seem to have disrupted the Lyon players who won in Bollaert thanks to a goal from the Georgian Georges Mikautadze (45+1).

OL took the opportunity to play a bad turn to its former coach Pierre Sage, now on the Lensois bench after the departure, to everyone’s surprise, from Will Still Still after a single season. Lyon also spoiled the reunion with Florian Thauvin’s France in the blood and gold jersey. Entering the 57^e Minute of play, the 2018 world champion, transfer of Udinese, failed to reverse the course of the game.

“I think it was played a few centimeters each time, a decision that is not timelycommented the new northern coach, Pierre Sage. If we play the sixteen other opponents in the same way, we will win matches. »»

“We are not at best, it’s obvious”

In the evening, four days after its elimination at 3^e Preliminary tour of the Champions League by the Benfica Lisbon, Nice again displayed disturbing deficiencies and launched his new exercise by a back at home, against Toulouse (0-1).

As a symbol, it was Djibril Sidibé, the 2018 world champion defender who had not scored in L1 for almost eight years with Monaco, who put the Niçois on the ground. On a center of Yann Gboho, extended in the axis, the world champion crucified Yehvann Diouf, with a little firm hand (90^e).

“We are not at best, it’s obvious” : Nice coach, Franck Haise, handled the euphemism after this third consecutive defeat, all competitions. “We missed a lot, especially in the first half, largely technically insufficient and in the general investment”he said.

Happy to “Involvement” of his players, his Toulouse counterpart, Carles Martinez Novell, for his part, “Aimed the collective state of mind”. “The first half was complicated, the second half too, but we hung on”said the winner.