Four French clubs have been hitting the continent's lawns for several weeks and shining with varying degrees of intensity, but which of them is having the best run in the Champions League so far? To vote, it's below!
Who could have predicted such first months of competition? Arriving at the halfway point, the Ligue 1 teams proudly represent their country on the European stage. At the end of the first four days of the Champions League regular season, AS Monaco (3rd) and Stade Brestois (4th) are even undefeated and occupy the highest places in the ranking. The Rock regulars, who defeated Bologna (0-1), Red Star Belgrade (5-1), FC Barcelona (2-1) and conceded a draw in Zagreb (2-2), can even aim the Top 8, when qualification for the play-offs seems assured for the Bretons, a real Tom Thumb in this prestigious competition in which they surpassed Sparta Prague (1-2), RB Salzburg (0-4) and SK Sturm Graz (2-1) and neutralized Bayer Leverkusen (1-1).
A notch lower in the ranking, LOSC (14th) achieves the impossible. The evil tongues predicted almost zero points at mid-term given their schedule, but the Mastiffs defied all predictions despite a full infirmary with seven points pocketed having faced Sporting CP, Real Madrid, Atlético and Juventus. The easiest part, on paper, is yet to come and they could now have big ambitions.
Only Paris Saint-Germain is surprisingly poor student with a single success gleaned from four matches. The Parisians are temporarily eliminated from the Champions League with 5 small units and a disappointing 25th place. Now a first assessment is drawn up halfway through, all that remains is to survey yourself.
