Everything you need to know about the 32nd finals

Friday 20th December 2024 12:26 AM

Thomas Siniecki, Media365: published on Thursday December 19, 2024 at 10:11 p.m.

Big news this season for the entry into the L1, which takes place before Christmas and no longer after the holidays.

Offbeat matches

Like last season at the same stage of the competition, the three matches broadcast solo will all be broadcast at each end of the evening of the coming weekend (at 9 p.m.) with first Rouen – LOSC Friday, then Calais – Strasbourg Saturday and finally the Lens – PSG summit on Sunday to close the program. The issues will be different, of course, around these three meetings.

If we clearly see the clash of the elite for the Sunday evening fireworks, the two other premium posters will therefore pit a large amateur club and two Ligue 1 teams, the match between Calais and Strasbourg taking on a more symbolic meaning. special again. In 2000, during their fabulous epic ending in the final against Nantes (lost 2-1 in the last minute at the Stade de France), the Calaisiens had in fact eliminated the Alsatians in the quarter-finals (2-1).

Other multiplex meetings

Here again, it is exactly the recipe from the previous year which has been retained, namely that the block of five matches at the start of the afternoon on Sunday (at 2:45 p.m.) will be the most consistent, with in particular ASSE – OM but also Bordeaux – Rennes and the matches of Monaco and Reims (respectively against L’Union Saint-Jean and at Still-Mutzig) as well as the interesting Auxerre – Dunkirk. Moreover, it is this time slot – and only this one – which will allow France 3 to co-broadcast matches.

Rouen – LOSC, however, will almost be in multiplex on Friday since the first six matches will have started at 8:45 p.m., but these will a priori be the least attractive clashes. As well as Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and Sunday at 5:30 p.m., and it is therefore the other block of six matches on Saturday at 6 p.m. which will inevitably attract the most attention, with in particular OL facing Feignies-Aulnoye (or Nantes and Nice in front of Drancy and Corte).