Ligue 1

Folarin Balogun from Club Reims has scored one more goal than PSG ace Kylian Mabppé in one more league appearance.

Balogun completed his hat-trick with a stunning first-time volley to give Reims the 4-2 win and the three points. Folarin Balogun is having a breakout season in France’s top tier and after 20 appearances he has found the back of the net 14 times and provided two assists. Due to the lack of minutes with the Gunners, Balogun was sent on a season-long loan to Ligue 1 side Club Reims, where he has been a goal scoring machine.

Timothy Weah's Lille drew 0-0 with Clermont Foot in Ligue 1 and Malik Tillman scored for Rangers in a 3-0 Premiership win at Hearts in the soccer news.

Alfredo Morales scored in the 9th minute and Tillman doubled the lead in the 34th. Haji Wright wasn’t in the squad for Antalyaspor’s 2-0 loss at Trabzonspor in the Super Lig. Greg Taylor put Celtic up in the 29th and Daizen Maeda made it 2-0 in the 33rd. Toulouse equalized in the 16th, went ahead in the 36th, converted a 55th minute penalty, and scored again in the 88th. Troyes is 16th in the table with 19 points, tied with 15th-place Brest. The point has Lille in 6th-place with 35 points from 21 games and tied with 7th-place Loirent.

Jaume Roures speaks about Mediapro cancelling its multi-billion pound Ligue 1 broadcast deal, a move that left French football in crisis.

It would be the first and last instalment Mediapro paid because by September it was asking the league to renegotiate the deal. At that point, Roures still did not have a name for his new channel, let alone the millions of subscribers he would need to make his massive, competition-skewing punt on French football pay off. Nobody would dispute his claim that trying to start a new subscription channel for French football in a pandemic was difficult. So, Roures then turned his attention to Ligue 1, offering the French league 60 per cent more than its longstanding broadcast partner Canal+ was willing to pay. Yes, the 2019-20 season was interrupted in France, like everywhere else, and did not resume, unlike most other leagues. “The right to broadcast in bars and pubs represented 12 per cent of the total. We presented a negotiation and finally, we got to a new agreement to leave from there. Ligue 1 were not to blame for them, of course, but neither were we as a company. If the product is not the same you sold, maybe it’s not your fault, but neither is it the broadcasters’.” Mediapro is still in a legal dispute with French newspaper L’Equipe over the publication of a front page in 2020. “Ligue 1 was the only league that did not finish the season 2019-20. The calculations are easy to do.

Olympique de Marseille midfielder Valentin Rongier has become a key figure in Igor Tudor's side, inheriting the captain's armband as the southern giants ...

So yes, I have the armband but it doesn't change much in my mind!" "I always, or at least regularly - I am human after all - but I stay focused and I always apply myself." It's lots of details; not being late, and we've had to rethink our eating habits," detailed the former Nantes prodigy. Very much involved in the title race, Marseille are in the running to be crowned champions of France for the first time in 13 years, and Rongier is playing a key role. "He asks for a lot of discipline, and not just on the pitch, in everyday life. "The World Cup came at a good time for us.

Reims' Folarin Balogun bagged a hat-trick against Lorient on Wednesday afternoon, making him Ligue 1 top scorer with 14 goals in just 18 starts.

He scores, he is decisive.” "He is able to play with his back to goal, in depth. It is technically very clean.