Jean-Pierre Thiesset rounds up all the action in Week Nine of the French top flight of women’s football, the D1 Arkema.
The main headline of the weekend came with Olympique Lyonnais‘ defeat at Paris St. Germain (for our report of the game, click here: https://impetus885775742.wordpress.com/2020/11/20/battle-of-the-big-guns-goes-psgs-way/).
Not only did Lyon lose first place to PSG, their biggest rivals for the title, but they produced a performance that was disturbing for their supporters, leaving a lot of questions for the future.
Montpellier stopped their losing run with a 3-1 win over Le Havre, the bottom placed side in D1 Arkema. Bordeaux won 1-0 at Paris FC to remain third ahead of Montpellier in the table.
Guingamp recorded their third win of the season and heaped more woe on Issy‘s dreadful goal difference as a result of their 6-1 win.
The other games saw a 2-0 win for Fleury over Dijon and Stade de Reims won 2-1 at Soyeux.
So, these results mean that suspense is revived for the D1 Arkema championship title as well as the race for third place.
The next round will take place on the weekend of the 5th December.
The latest table:
| P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | |
| Paris St. Germain | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 25 |
| Olympique Lyonnais | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 3 | 24 |
| Bordeaux | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 17 |
| Montpellier | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 16 |
| Fleury ‘91 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 14 |
| Paris FC | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 12 |
| Dijon | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 12 |
| Guingamp | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 10 |
| Stade Reims | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 10 |
| Issy FF | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 41 | 6 |
| Soyaux | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 6 |
| Le Havre | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 4 |
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