Juba Touabi, Media365: published on Friday May 02, 2025 at 10:41 am
While the Ligue 2 championship is entering its ultimate phase, the penultimate day promises to be decisive on all floors.
At only two stages of the epilogue of the season, this 33rd lifting could well redistribute the cards, confirm dynamics or seal certain destinies. Whether for the title, the direct climb, the dams or the survival, each meeting now takes on a capital issue. This weekend, the twenty teams in the division will play very high intensity matches, where each point could be worth its weight in gold. Already assured of its return to Ligue 1, FC Lorient can take a new symbolic step this evening by winning the title of league champion 2. With three units ahead of its runner -up, Paris FC, and a largely favorable goal difference, the Merlus only need a better result than the Ile -de -France to be sacred without waiting for the last day. They will challenge AC Ajaccio, this Friday, May 2, 2024. A coronation would reward a controlled season from start to finish, marked by remarkable regularity and collective solidity to any test.
-For its part, Paris FC, a solid second in the ranking, sees supreme happiness: a long -awaited return to the elite of French football. On the move to Martigues, the Parisians could validate their ticket for Ligue 1 in the event of a victory. However, even in the event of poor performance, Stéphane Gilli’s men could still go up directly, provided that Metz, third, is not essential against Rodez. On the Messin side, the equation is complex: it will be imperative to win the last two meetings, while hoping for a faux pas from Paris FC, to avoid dams and directly access the paradise of Ligue 1.
Maintenance in play: Clermont, Martigues and Red Star under maximum pressure
The race for the dams promises to be just as exciting, with several training courses still in the running to win their ticket. Dunkirk, current fourth, can validate his participation in the play -off phase with a simple draw against Laval, a direct competitor positioned in sixth place. A victory would even allow northerners to benefit from the advantage of the field during the crucial match. Guingamp, fifth, will challenge Bastia in a high -risk match. For the Bretons, the situation is clear: you have to prevail and hope for a faux pas de Laval or Annecy to stay in the right wagon. Finally, for Annecy, seventh, the error is no longer allowed. Only a victory against Clermont, combined with poor performance of his direct rivals, could revive the hope of a place in the dams.
At the bottom of the table, the fight for the maintenance reaches its climax. Clermont, currently seventeenth, plays big against Annecy. A defeat against the Haut-Savoyards, coupled with a Martigues victory against Paris FC, would sign a second consecutive relegation, a real earthquake for the Auvergne club. Martigues, for his part, occupies the sixteenth place and therefore a barragist position. Opposed to a Paris FC which plays its climb, the Martégaux will have to surpass themselves to hope to get out of the red zone and give themselves a chance of survival. Finally, the Red Star, fifteenth, could afford a bowl of saving air. A victory against Caen, already condemned to the descent, would mathematically ensure the maintenance of the Audonians, who would then evolve an additional season in Ligue 2.
