The Professional Football League (LFP) followed the health injunctions of the French government on Thursday by activating the final cessation of the Ligue 1 season, she announced, stopping in the board of directors a classification which crowns the PSG and deprives Lyon of European qualification.
Knowledge of the decisions and declarations of the Prime Minister and of the Government, the LFP acts the end of the 2019/2020 season.
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This decision will make people happy, like Marseille and Rennes, thus qualified for the Champions League, and losers, like Lyon, relegated to 7th place and deprived, as is, of a European qualification for the first time in more of twenty years, according to the "final ranking" revealed by the LFP in a press conference. Toulouse and Amiens will be relegated, and Lorient and Lens promoted from L2, which may herald a wave of litigation before sports and administrative justice.
OM in C1, Lens in L1, Lyon in PLS
"There may be appeals, but our decisions are solid in terms of our statutes and we have ended the creativity contests which agitated the media," said Didier Quillot, the Director General of the body, adding that the LFP had worked in symbiosis with UEFA and the FFF to develop this ranking solution on the basis of a point quotient principle based on the number of matches played. In this little game, Rennes is ahead of Lille for the place of barragiste in C1, while Nice and Reims have a better ratio than OL for the last two qualifying places in the Europa League.
Maracineanu is a little tired by the squabbling of the presidents of L1 via @ 20minutesSport https://t.co/SzoCzc7IqR
- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) April 30, 2020"If we can play behind closed doors in August, if the sanitary conditions allow, we will think about playing the Cup finals before the championship resumes," said Didier Quillot. This means that in case of victory against PSG, Saint-Etienne and Lyon can still claim Europe as a last resort, but it remains very theoretical. By activating this decision without letting the General Assembly of May 20 next debate it, unlike the ascents / descents between the L2 and the National (Lens and Lorient go up in L1), The LFP chose to put an end to the untimely declarations of some and others to make their point.
"We were able to find the ambient cacophony incandescent"
"We decided to work rather than expressing ourselves in the press in order to try to find solutions for French football which is going through an unprecedented crisis," thundered Nathalie Boy de La Tour, president of the LFP. We were able to find the ambient cacophony quite indecent when we speak of 20,000 dead in France because of the Covid-19. We are in an environment where there is a lot of testosterone and presidents with a large ego. Our dissensions have spread a little too much in the press, but I hope that things will be clearer now. ” To believe the warning of Olivier Sadran, who has already promised the League a legal trench warfare, and while waiting for Jean-Michel Aulas' reaction, we allow ourselves to doubt a little more.
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