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PRO FOOTBALL Clash of wounded animals (Lyon, Bordeaux) has again offered no goals to subscribers of Canal Plus. Or when Sunday night is rotten and are very similar in France. Unlike what happens in other foreign leagues. Back to what you may have missed the weekend football elapsed

Three 0-0 in the last five Sundays of Canal Plus Live ... Bordeaux-Rennes, Monaco, Marseille and Lyon-Bordeaux last night so offered to subscribers of the newly private French channel, a "spectacle" virgin Goal! What worried the broadcaster but also football fans in France. Of the five major championships in Europe, the Ligue 1 has offered this weekend again, the lowest average goals scored per game. 17 goals in 10 games, averaging less than 2 goals per game. A score of 1-1 has to delight the assistance of the dual-Lille Auxerre on Sunday afternoon. A score above average through the equalization Dudka (AJA) listed on the ... 86th minute! If, in addition, it must wait until the last moment to see one goal ... Moreover, 5 of the 17 goals of the weekend French were entered in the last quarter of an hour. Suffice to say that we must be patient in the French stadia. But patience has she not its limits?

Elsewhere, football is beautiful and sweeping scores stats' tricolor. 2.4 goals per match average in Germany, 2.7 in Spain, 3.1 in Italy and 4.3 in England. Another world! While European football has shown an exceptional face this weekend (especially among the British), France, she made the standard. Meetings of average quality, no goals and no real risk taking. By dint of not wanting to make goals, we often forget that to score, we must move forward.

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A day like Saturday in the Premier League, there is not often. Goals galore (41 in 8 games), entertainment, and reversals of position (see : "We had to do" ). The foot (the foot in English, a coincidence?). On Sunday, he will have been much quieter with two scores of 0-1. A win at Birmingham on the lawn at West Ham and a coup carried out by the Reds Liverpool at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea. Torres, aligned from the start against his former partners, have been unable to confirm the renewal of Blues always swimming in troubled waters. A goal by Raul Meireles, his fourth in five games, will have enabled protected by Kenny Dalglish back on the sixth step of the British hierarchy. Liverpool, with a third row without success conceding a goal, puts himself in the race for the Champions League and back to 6 points from Chelsea and Tottenham. Arranged in a pattern ultra-defensive tactics (defense-5), Gerrard and his teammates will have created yet the best opportunities of the match, before resisting the vain assaults London in the dying moments. Saw Liverpool, Chelsea doubt.

Italy: traffic jam in the top rankings

At Alpine our friends, accustomed to discipline and defensive matches "tactics," Ranieri had to tear some hair on Sunday night. His defense colander has remade his own: five goals in the hood and a 5-3 defeat to a little spot a rival interasse. As if this were not enough, Burdisso has found a way to get kicked out when the score was already 3-1. The coach then Roman probably realized that victory was as a defense: No s'soir!

The defeat against Udinese seems forgotten for machinations between returning to full speed on his neighbor Milan. The San Siro roommate has stalled for some time. He has every reason to wake up, lest the Scudetto him pass under the nose! A leaking the national title club since Berlusconi ... 2004! At that time, yet knew mark Scheve, Nesta was not entirely made-china, Maldini and Cafu wore the armband inflamed the right lane! That person is getting up!

But the earthquake of the 24th day was held in Cagliari: you imagine that Juve has become! And with his new striker Matri (ex-Cagliari. ..), 2 goals. The Old Lady now ranks eighth in a beautiful place, 11 points AC Milan! Eight teams in 11 areas: the Serie A is tighter than ever! Progression of outsiders such as Napoli and Udinese or dumbing down?

Germany and Spain: "standard"

In Germany, the Ruhr derby between Borussia Dortmund and Schalke ended in a 0-0. The ideal opportunity for Bayern, Leverkusen Mainz or return to the first class. Yes, but here it is: Mainz has been hanging at home by Werder Bremen (1-1), 1-0 at Leverkusen cabbage and Nuernberg Bayern took on water in Cologne (!), Finding the passage through bowing 3-2 after leading 2-0 at the mid-game. Better Arsenal, Van Gaal's men have the deserves to succeed this performance at 11 against 11! Hats off gentlemen. A tribute that does not, of course Robben and Ribery, wingers Bayern paper a very limited! Ultimately, therefore Borussia won a point on the runner and now has twelve points ahead of Leverkusen! A gulf seems insurmountable ...

What about Spain? Is there still interest in this championship played in advance? So note that Villarreal and Valencia are doing fluff for first place in the real championship, that open and close that ignores the Real and Barca! The club also benefits from the Valencian missteps Villarreal at home against Levante to return to the Yellow Submarine. With 44 points, Valencia is more than a length of Villareal. In 17 of the Barça!