If Ligue 1 already knows its champion, the suspense remains in Ligue 2.. Four days remain to be played, with the stakes on all the floors of the ranking: both for the title, which Lorient, the Paris FC and Metz can still argue, and for the direct promotion in Ligue 1 which concerns the first two places, as well as the accession dams in the first division, and the descent in National. The 31st day begins on Friday April 18.
For the title, Lorient is in favorable tosal
With four games still to play, Lorient is three points ahead of the championship. Paris FC, second, and Metz, third with four points behind, are the only two clubs that can prevent the Merlus from being titled. But the Bretons have a fairly favorable calendar until the end of the season. Apart from a perilous trip to Annecy, they will receive Martigues and Caen, the last two in the ranking.
The fight for second place, which provides direct promotion in Ligue 1, will also be fierce, and should only concern these three clubs, since Dunkirk, 4th, is already relegated ten points from Paris FC in the ranking.
Dunkirk well started to be a barragist, four clubs in the fight behind
If the first two of the championship will be promoted directly in Ligue 1, a dam system will concern the fifth, fourth and third in Ligue 2.. The fifth and fourth will compete in a match, at home for the fourth. Then the winner of this match will face the third, at home for the third. And finally the winner of this meeting will face the 16th in Ligue 1, on round-trip matches, with the return home for the Ligue 1 club.
-Dunkirk, fourth, which is seven points ahead of the sixth, has a foot in play -offs, unless a failure at the end of the season, while the Northerners will not face a direct competitor, apart from Laval, eighth and still in the race.
For fifth place, the fight will be fierce between Guingamp, Bastia, Annecy and Laval, which are held in five points. The Guingampais dug a little gap and have a four -point mattress on Bastia and Annecy, which gives them the right to a misstep. The match between the Bretons and the Corsicans during the 33rd day will be cleaver. Bastiais do not have a simple calendar, with a trip to Paris on Saturday.
Caen almost condemned, a Martigues-Clermont battle for the dam
Authors of a catastrophic season, notably with a single victory since November, the Caennais (18th) have one and a half foot in National. Stade Malherbe, of which Kylian Mbappé is the owner, is 13 points behind the Red Star, 15th and first club outside the red zone, and can hope to be a barragist. But he still has to face the Lorient leader and Bastia.
Before him, Clermont and Martigues are seven points ahead and should argue this 16th place as a barragist, while the 17th will also be relegated. The Auvergne seems to have a more favorable calendar, since they will mainly face clubs of second part of the table (Troyes, Red Star and Rodez), while Martigues must rub shoulders with clubs of high table for the last three days: Guingamp, Paris FC and Lorient.
