DIRECT. Ligue 1: the third day live, classification and calendar

16:15 – AS Monaco receives Lens

It is one of the enticing posters of this third day of Ligue 1. The Monegasques receive Lens at the Louis II stadium. A reunion between two clubs which had faced each other on the last day last season and where Lens had deprived Monaco of a direct qualification in Champions League at the very last second. The Principality’s players would certainly like to take their revenge. See you at 5 p.m. this Saturday for this meeting at the top of the table since the two teams have 4 points and rank 5th and 6th respectively.

4:00 p.m. – “Changes”, assures Bruno Irles

The Troyes coach must rack his brains after his team conceded six goals and scored no points in two Ligue 1 days. The trip to Lyon tonight is therefore already perilous for a coach who had allowed the Trojans to hold up last season. “There will be changes. Now I have certainties with this squad so I’m not going to evacuate or change everything, it would be stupid on my part. I have a squad, not just 11 players,” said the coach. of ESTAC.

15:45 – Troyes remains serene

A week after the slap received at home against Toulouse (0-3), during the second day of Ligue 1, Troyes hopes to finally start its season but against Lyon the task promises to be at best complicated, at worst impossible. Despite two defeats to start the exercise and a 19th place and the distrust of the supporters in particular with regard to coach Bruno Irles, the Trojan president Aymeric Magne sought to ease the tensions. “I understand their frustration on the Toulouse match, in relation to the result and the game developed. On the other hand, I do not understand that we do not support the club from the first day”he first explained to The Team before recalling what will be the reality of the coming season. “We know that all year, it will be difficult. We are not going to play the European Cup.” If the two defeats validate his analysis, the Trojan president refuses to panic. “We are not panicking. We are working on the continuity of last season. You have to be calm”, he assured. It’s up to his players to prove it this evening, from 9 p.m., on the lawn of Lyon, hoping to achieve a big blow.

15:30 – No frustration for Bosz

Peter Bosz appeared in front of the media to talk about the third day of Ligue 1 and OL’s match against Troyes. The Lyonnais coach is, in particular, returned to the match postponed on the lawn of Lorient: “We won the first match at home and we would have liked to win the second. It’s like that but there is no frustration . We are preparing for Troyes.”

15:15 – Riou, a first with OL

Fate is sometimes facetious and it is not the story of Rémy Riou that will contradict it. At the height of his 35 years, the doorman will keep the cages of Olympique Lyonnais for the first time in his career, taking advantage of the suspension of Anthony Lopes, sent off during the first day against Ajaccio. Nothing exceptional apart from one detail. Except that Rémy Riou is not just a player in the twilight of his career who came to Lyon as third goalkeeper. He is a child of Les Gones, trained at the club but never having had the opportunity to put on the gloves with the pros. It must be said that its outbreak coincided with the presence in the Lyon goal of the indestructible Grégory Coupet (1997-2008).

In 2007, two years after turning pro, the man who rubbed shoulders with Benzema and Ben Arfa in the 1987 generation was asked to look elsewhere to get playing time. First loaned to Lorient, he settled down for 4 years in Auxerre, before joining Toulouse and then landing in Nantes, where he will stay for 5 seasons, participating in particular in the rise of the club in Ligue 1 in 2013 and of which he will be captain for a time. In 2017, he signed in Turkey with Alanyaspor but left after a year for Charleroi. His Belgian adventure is also cut short for lack of playing time and it is in Caen that he bounces back in 2019, before finally returning to Lyon this summer. A return home where he thought he was helping his club in the shadows. Circumstances decided otherwise as if history had wanted to catch up and finally give him a chance. “I can understand that the pressure is different for him because starting as a starter is different from entering the game. But he’s not a youngster without experience. We’ve been very happy with him since he started. with us and now he can show everyone his qualities”, believes Peter Bosz. His first as a starter with OL should have taken place last week in Lorient, but the state of the pitch led to the match being postponed. It will finally be for this Friday, against Troyes at home. Riou could not have dreamed of better.

15:00 – Cherki extends in Lyon

It was one of the soap operas of the summer on the side of Olympique Lyonnais this summer, in parallel with the Aouar file, and it ended this Friday. Indeed, OL should announce that it has reached an agreement with Ryan Cherki to extend his contract. Financially agreed, the two parties negotiated the duration of this new lease. If the club hoped to see him stay for three more years, the player’s entourage was pushing for just one year. The two parties finally found common ground for a year, until 2024 (Cherki was out of contract on June 30, 2023, editor’s note), and an optional one, which will be automatically activated, depending on the number of appearances of the player. From the height of his 19 years, Cherki therefore continues his Lyon adventure and intends to succeed in imposing himself in his training club, his objective this season being to integrate the starting eleven on a long-term basis. Tonight, against Troyes, he will start on the bench.

14:45 – Tolisso holder against Troyes

Scheduled this evening for the opening of the 3rd day of Ligue 1 against Troyes, Olympique Lyonnais can count on the presence of a world champion at kick-off. Returning this summer from Bayern Munich, Corentin Tolisso convinced Peter Bosz to trust him to start the game, a first since his return. The French environment is finally taking advantage of its summer preparation and arriving in good shape in this busy month of August. He will be associated in the Lyon midfield with the revelation of this start to the season Johann Lepenant and the Brazilian Lucas Paqueta, taking the place of Houssem Aouar. The latter lives a very delicate end of summer. Having come to an agreement with Nottingham Forrest, the French international saw his transfer blocked by his management, who did not respond to the offer of 10 million euros (payable in…6 instalments) made by the English club. Given his player’s situation, Bosz preferred to trust players fully committed to the Lyon project. Aouar does not appear in the group to face Troyes, replaced by Maxence Caqueret. Recovered from his sprained knee, he should enter the second half and start his season.

14:15 – Lyon opens the third day of Ligue 1

OL return to the field on the occasion of this third day of Ligue 1 since the Gones had seen the match on the lawn of Lorient postponed because of the impracticable Breton grass. They are the ones who will inaugurate this third day with the reception in Troyes this evening at 9 p.m. Peter Bosz’s men could be the only ones, with PSG, to collect six points after two contested matches after their success against Ajaccio two weeks ago (2-1). Opposite, Troyes is still looking for its first point in this 2022/2023 season.