Ligue 2 and National thoughts for next year

no doubt dude !i can't wait to see the Corsican Derby AC Ajaccio Vs SC Bastia

Monaco is finally out of the relegation zone.

Lens [1 - 3] Bastia
47' [0 - 1] Y. El-Azzouzi
55' [0 - 2] J. Rothen (pen.)
58' [0 - 3] T. Maoulida
67' [1 - 3] B. Koita

Big away win for Bastia. Now 10pts clear from 4th place.

looking like Bastia is going to play in ligue 1

Hmmm. They were just in the National last year and only one year in Ligue 2 before promotion. I'm not sure what that says about them or Ligue 2 in general.

I'd say there is a massive amount of positive momentum in the club, they sell out every home game. The expansion and renovation of Stade Armand Cesari is finally under way and the team have a good balance of experienced veterans like Maoulida and Rothen and young promising talents like Diallo & Khazri. I might be overly optimistic but I think the club has the structure to really establish themselves in Ligue 1, a much bigger fan base on Corsica and on the mainland than Ajaccio. And the city seems to have rallied behind the team in way it hasn't in many years.

Anyways. after last nights results the standing are

1. Bastia 55pts
2. Clermont 45pts
3. Reims 43pts
4. Troyes 43pts
5. Nantes 41pts
6. Sedan 41pts
7. Châteauroux 41pts

In terms of Ligue 1 potential it would be nice if Nantes could stop drawing at home and get some wins but that doesn't seem likely to happen. Big game tonight in Reims vs Le Mans. If Reims win they get some important breathing room in the promotion battle and Le Mans must win to overtake Monaco in the relegation battle.

Chatearoux makes me sick it should be Tours up there WTF i would love to see Nantes up there tho, bad Lens and Le Harve isn't doing well... Tours are becoming an solid ligue 2 club they need to start winning away big time like Nantes

Reims has the history and the stade i agree with you

WOO WOO

LAVAL 1 TOURS 2


nice to see Tours scoring with different strikers

Billy Ketkeophomphone,Rémi Biancardini

we got 41 points looking really tight now in ligue 2


ALLEZ TOURS!!!!

Romain Alessandrini,
Ryan Isaac Mendes da Graça,
Florian Raspentino,
Wahbi Khazri,
Anthony Knockaert,

Theses LIGUE 2 players are heavily being scouted through ligue1 and else where in europe

Ligue 2 is becoming a big deal im loving it !

Ligue 2 has to have the most talent of any 2nd division in Europe. I dont follow it closely at all but it seems theres some great hidden players over there.

Ligue 2 - 30e Journée

30/03/2012 | Stade: Stade de la Vallée du Cher | Arbitre D. Julien

TOURS 1 - 0 ANGERS

84' Diego








ALLEZ TFC!




Time to pop the Vouvray !

Top 5.

Bastia 59pts
Reims 50pts
Clermont 48pts
Troyes 46pts
Sedan 45pts

Important win for Bastia at home against Laval, and hey Tours only four points behind Clermont now.

http://www.foot-national.com/foot-u...-avec-le-maccabi-paris-c-est-signe-33644.html

Can someone tell me who the heck "Maccabi Paris" is ?

Established in 1948 as a social-sport club for the Jewish community in Paris, it acts today as a simple sport club for a wider French community.

11th arrondissement of Paris

mostly north african jewish thats started the club

Monaco is surging up the table. 8 games in a row without a defeat and 20 pts. out of a possible 24. Promotion is a long shot because of their terrible start but lets say they finish 4th and one of the top 3 teams mysteriously fails to pass the DNCG and is denied promotion. Its not likely but hey its all I can hope for.

Monaco won again. It's fairly impressive. It would be insane, if they were promoted in L1, after spending most of the season into the relegation battle. I've watched a couple of games of Monaco after Dmitry Rybolovlev took over the club out of curiosity with the 10 signings during the winter transfer window. I'm fairly surprised by their results, they seemed often "outplayed" by their opponents, perhaps they improved since then. I'm even more surprised by Touré who keeps scoring goals because he seemed rather weak technically even for L2 standards.

It'd be a good thing to see Monaco, Lens and Nantes back in L1.

I really dont care if AJA goes. They arent big enough for L1 anymore if you think about. They won based on their youth players and thats dried up now.

Bastia wins 2-1 and more or less secures promotion to Ligue 1.

15 point lead with 5 games left.

i want to know how many players from Bastia are staying this summer

Rothen stays, Diallo not (bought 4M by Rennes on the last winter transfer market).

I wish Monaco, Lens and Nantes were in L1 BUT I admit I probably wouldnt pay as much attention to L2 if they werent there and part of the fun is checking the standings all the time to see if they are close or not close to getting back there. Having former champions in L2 does make it more interesting to follow.