However, as many people had expected before, the proposal proposed by LFP did not satisfy everyone, and several clubs have expressed dissatisfaction with the result.
Xinhua News Agency, Paris, May 1 (reporter Xiao Yazhuo) the French professional football league (LFP) officially announced the early end of the French league this season on April 30 and announced the final decision method of league results. However, as many people had expected before, the proposal proposed by LFP did not satisfy everyone, and several clubs have expressed dissatisfaction with the result.
Lyon club president Ola reacted most fiercely, because his team is likely to miss the European games for the first time since the 1995-1996 season by one point.
“Losing this opportunity (participating in the European War) will cause tens of millions of euros of economic losses, and we will make a claim.” Ola said in an interview with AFP.
According to LFP’s decision, the final ranking of the league is based on the average number of points each team gets per game. When the season stopped in the middle of March, Lyon ranked seventh in the standings, but only one point was different from Nice, who ranked fifth, and Lance, who ranked sixth. According to the regulations, Lyon has been unable to pass the season ranking to obtain the qualification for next season’s European war.
Of course, the Lyon team theoretically has the last chance-to beat Paris in the Carling Cup final. However, regardless of whether the final can be held according to the current epidemic situation, even if it is held, Lyon won little in the face of Paris, the premier of the league.
“We think the final season ranking result is not reasonable. I don’t want to target a club, but the fact is that nice played more home games than us, and they only played one game with Paris Saint Germain, and we have played two games.” Ola said.
Previously, Ola had always called for not to end the season ahead of schedule and proposed to decide the final result ranking in the form of a play-off. However, at the meeting held by LFP on April 30, ola’s proposal did not win the support of most people.
According to the current decision, Paris Saint Germain will win the league championship for the third consecutive year, and will be qualified for the Champions League next season together with Marseille. The third-ranked Rennes team will participate in the Champions League qualifier.
Lyon is not the only club that expresses dissatisfaction with the final result. The fourth-ranked Lille, the ninth-ranked Monaco, and the demoted Toulouse and Amiens all thought the final result was unreasonable. Bernard Joani, the chairman of the Asian sleep team, who ranked second to last and downgraded in the league, called this result “lack of humanity”.
Joani has also proposed other solutions, such as deciding the ranking according to the half-way results of the league, canceling the lifting system, expanding the French league to 22 teams next season, but in the end, LFP did not agree.
In response to the dissatisfaction expressed by these clubs, the French Minister of Sports, rokesale merechenanu, also responded. While calling on all parties to exercise restraint, she respected the right of appeal of various clubs.
“If they want to appeal to the court, then go,” murechneanu said in an interview with French media RMC, “I hope everyone can unite and shoulder their responsibilities…… At this time, we must consider for others and society.”