Today (July 5), UEFA announced the rankings of Europe’s top national championships. This ranking is based on the results of tournaments in 5 consecutive seasons. UEFA will base on the rankings to allocate places to participate in the European Cup.
Accordingly, Ligue 1 has dropped out of the top 5 for the first time The strongest tournament in Europe after many years. This tournament has dropped to 7th place, behind both the Belgian and Dutch championships. The reason is that French clubs have poor performance in the European arena.
PSG is the leader of Ligue 1 but performs extremely poorly in the European Cup. They were eliminated early in the eighth round Champions League in the last two seasons. Meanwhile, the achievements of other French clubs last season were quite bad.
Marseille finished in last place in Group D of the Champions League. Monaco Nantes and Rennes also stopped in the first knockout round of the Europa League. Only Nice advanced the deepest when entering the quarterfinals of the UEFA Conference League.
The reason why clubs France’s serious decline is a problem of “bleeding” of talent. Besides PSG, most other clubs were “gutted” by top European teams. Even PSG suffered because of not having good results. Messi Sergio Ramos both left after their contracts expired. Mbappe< /a> is also rebelling and looking to leave on a free transfer next year.
According to records in the latest gathering of the French team, coach Deschamps only called up 5 players. playing in Ligue 1. Except for Mbappe, the remaining 4 names are not pillars of Les Bleus.
Another detail that needs to be mentioned since the 2018-2019 season until now there are 13 clubs. in Ligue 1 to participate in the European Cup. That is a superior number compared to the remaining tournaments, but it proves that French clubs are unstable and prone to collapse. For example, the cases of Monaco and Lille. They all fell miserably after surpassing PSG to win Ligue 1.
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