Kylian Mbappe lifts the Coupe de la Ligue trophy in 2018.
The French football league says it’s ending the League Cup competition after this season’s edition.
The decision comes as the European Club Association pushes for cuts in national fixture schedules to create more space for an expanded Champions League in 2024.
The French league cites commercial reasons and says the Coupe de la Ligue could be relaunched in future years.
Ending the second-tier cup also reduces fixtures, gives players more rest, and creates an extra Europa League qualifying spot to…
PSG forward Kylian Mbappe with the Coupe de la Ligue trophy in 2018.
The French football league says it’s ending the League Cup competition after this season’s edition.
The decision comes as the European Club Association pushes for cuts in national fixture schedules to create more space for an expanded Champions League in 2024.
The French league cites commercial reasons and says the Coupe de la Ligue could be relaunched in future years.
Ending the second-tier cup also reduces fixtures, gives players more rest, and creates an extra Europa League qualifying spot to…
PSG forward Kylian Mbappe with the Coupe de la Ligue trophy in 2018.
The French football league says it’s ending the League Cup competition after this season’s edition.
The decision comes as the European Club Association pushes for cuts in national fixture schedules to create more space for an expanded Champions League in 2024.
The French league cites commercial reasons and says the Coupe de la Ligue could be relaunched in future years.
Ending the second-tier cup also reduces fixtures, gives players more rest, and creates an extra Europa League qualifying spot to…
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Strasbourg wins 4-1 on Penalty Kicks.
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PARIS, March 30 (Reuters) – Racing Strasbourg won their third French League Cup title when they beat En Avant Guingamp 4-1 on penalties after the final had ended in a dull goalless draw after extra time on Saturday.Lionel Carole scored the winning spot-kick at Lille’s Pierre Mauroy stadium at the end of a hugely disappointing final.Guingamp knocked out Paris St Germain, League Cup winners in the last five seasons, in the quarter-finals and they had won three of their four matches en route to the…
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Guingamp wins 5-4 on Penalty Kicks.
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PARIS, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Ten-man Monaco were knocked out of the League Cup semi-finals by En Avant Guingamp, losing 5-4 on penalties after the game had ended in a 2-2 draw in Leonardo Jardim’s first match back in charge on Tuesday.Strugglers Monaco went 2-0 up despite being one man down early on, but finished the match exhausted as Guingamp forced a shootout to reach the final against either Racing Strasbourg or Girondins de Bordeaux in Lille on March 30.Monaco’s William Vainqueur was sent off after…
PSG coach Thomas Tuchel is bewildered as to how Guingamp were given three penalties in a rare PSG defeat saying that Barcelona and Bayern Munich wouldn’t ever get those types of decisions.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Thomas Tuchel believes that Wednesday’s Coupe de la Ligue quarterfinal exit at the hands of Guingamp has changed nothing regarding the January transfer window, saying the deposed titleholders needed to and still need to sign new players to remain competitive.
A rare Neymar header had put PSG in front at Parc des Princes but Yeni Ngbakoto and Marcus Thuram penalties in a match that saw Guingamp awarded three spot kicks resulted in a shock 2-1 win for the Bretons and an end…
Paris Saint-Germain were knocked out of the Coupe de la Ligue by lowly Guingamp.
Five-time defending Coupe de la Ligue champions Paris Saint-Germain are out after an improbable 2-1 defeat to Guingamp at Parc des Princes on Wednesday — their first domestic cup loss since January 2014.
Neymar had given Thomas Tuchel’s men the lead with a rare headed goal on 63 minutes, moments after Marcus Thuram had missed a first penalty for the visitors. Incredibly, PSG contrived to concede two more spot kicks in the final 10 minutes, and both were punished, first by Yeni Ngbakoto and then…
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Paris Saint-Germain were knocked out of the Coupe de la Ligue after unfancied Guingamp scored two of the three penalties they were awarded to book their place in the semifinals with a 2-1 away victory on Wednesday.
PSG had won the competition five years in a row and had not lost a domestic fixture this season but were undone when Guingamp grabbed the winner from the spot in stoppage time.
Marcus Thuram missed Guingamp’s first penalty after 61 minutes, and Neymar headed home two minutes later to…
Stewart Robson, Peter Walton and Alison Bender debate the use of VAR at the upcoming World Cup, and ask if referees are suitably prepared for it in the Premier League.
Monaco’s Radamel Falcao criticised the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system as something that could “kill football” after it twice benefitted Paris Saint-Germain in their 3-0 victory over Monaco in the Coupe de la Ligue final on Saturday.
Edinson Cavani scored an eighth-minute penalty after Kylian Mbappe was fouled in the area by Kamil Glik, forcing a lengthy review, and Falcao appeared to have pulled one back in the 37th minute with PSG up 2-0 but the system ruled he was offside.
Falcao told Canal…