Paris (AFP)

His doubts dispelled, Marseille has everything to follow against Amiens, penultimate of Ligue 1 and often unlucky, and consolidate its place as the dolphin of Paris SG Friday (9:00 pm) at the Vélodrome at the opening of the 28th day.

OM resumed their march forward in Nîmes (3-2), after the home accident against Nantes (3-1), with a "Pipa" Benedetto found, tripled in the key.

Faced with the Picards, who do not display the most threatening face with their series of 15 matches without success, Florian Thauvin, long awaited, could make his comeback.

"It's 50-50 to sit on the bench and possibly play his first minutes," said André Villas-Boas about his international (10 selections) absent for six months - except ten minutes of anecdotal play in September.

Beaten with the Unicorn by Metz (1-0), a direct competitor for the maintenance, the men of Luka Elsner took a blow on the head and now display 5 lengths behind Nîmes, in position of barrage.

Still they come out of a month in February when they stood up to Lyon (0-0) and PSG (4-4), showing themselves more comfortable facing the big displacements of Ligue 1. The players of 'AVB are warned.

Lille and Lyon, they play big in qualifying for the Champions League at the end of Sunday (9:00 p.m.). The Mastiffs, fourth at one point from the podium, receive their Lyon chasers whom they have the opportunity to relegate to nine points.

A scenario that would almost extinguish the hopes of C1 des Gones next season. Rudi Garcia's men had successfully negotiated the first half of their series of four shocks in eleven days.

After a feat against Juventus in the first leg of the first leg (1-0), OL outclassed Saint-Etienne (2-0) in the derby but must now rebound following their large elimination in the semi-finals of the Coupe de France by PSG stars (5-1) on Wednesday.

Program:

Friday March 6

(9:00 p.m.) Marseille - Amiens

Saturday March 7

(5.30 p.m.) Strasbourg - Paris SG

(8 p.m.) Metz - Nîmes

Nice - Monaco

Dijon - Toulouse

Angers - Nantes

Reims - Brest

Sunday March 8

(3:00 p.m.) Saint-Etienne - Bordeaux

(5:00 p.m.) Rennes - Montpellier

(9 p.m.) Lille - Lyon

Classification: Pts JGNP bp bc dif

1. Paris SG 68 27 22 2 3 75 24 51

2. Marseille 55 27 16 7 4 39 27 12

3. Rennes 47 27 14 5 8 33 24 9

4. Lille 46 27 14 4 9 34 27 7

5. Lyon 40 27 11 7 9 42 26 16

6. Montpellier 40 27 11 7 9 35 29 6

7. Monaco 40 27 11 7 9 43 42 1

8. Reims 38 27 9 11 7 25 21 4

9. Nice 38 27 10 8 9 39 37 2

10. Strasbourg 38 27 11 5 11 32 32 0

11. Nantes 37 27 11 4 12 28 29 -1

12. Bordeaux 36 27 9 9 9 39 33 6

13. Angers 36 27 10 6 11 26 33 -7

14. Brest 34 27 8 10 9 34 36 -2

15. Metz 31 27 7 10 10 25 34 -9

16. Saint-Etienne 29 27 8 5 14 28 44 -16

17. Dijon 27 27 6 9 12 25 36 -11

18. Nîmes 27 27 7 6 14 28 42 -14

19. Amiens 22 27 4 10 13 29 48 -19

20. Toulouse 13 27 3 4 20 21 56 -35

Editor's note: The first two are qualified directly for the Champions League (C1), the third will play the third preliminary round.

The last 2 are relegated to Ligue 2.

The 18th will compete for its place in L1 during a jump-off in round-trip matches with the Ligue 2 club which won the pre-jump-off.

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