The poor results of French clubs this week are not without consequences in the UEFA rankings.
Bad week for French football. The French clubs have indeed had a string of bad results. The tone was set on Tuesday with PSG, beaten 2-1 by Bayern Munich on their home pitch. And if at the same time, AS Monaco had won on the pitch of Bodo/Glimt, Olympique de Marseille lost 1-0 at home against Atalanta Bergamo.
And the representatives of Ligue 1 were not more inspired in the Europa League. On the contrary. While Nice suffered a fourth defeat in four matches by losing to Fribourg, Lille fell to the pitch of Red Star Belgrade and Olympique Lyonnais bit the dust on that of Betis Sevilla. Alone, Strasbourg saved the honor by winning in Norway at Hacken.
Fourth place is gone
In the end, France only scored 0.57 points in the UEFA rankings. It nevertheless remains firmly clinging to its fifth place in the UEFA index with 71.819 points compared to 64.033 against the Netherlands. And Belgium, which will make a big comeback next summer when the results of the 2021-2022 season, did not have a good week either.
And if Vincent Labrune recently affirmed that France should now aim for fourth place, the latter now seems inaccessible. Germany now has a lead of 8,155 points compared to 6,726 points at the start of the season.
