Aston Villa's penultimate Champions League league phase clash comes against AS Monaco on Tuesday night (5:45pm kick-off)

Monaco came from behind to secure a 2-2 draw against Nantes, maintaining their position in Ligue 1 and closing the gap on leaders PSG.

The eighth-place club in Ligue 1, Toulouse FC, hosts 18th-place Montpellier HSC at Stadium de Toulouse on Sunday at 11:15 AM ET.Toulouse FC met Olympique Lyon away from home in its last match and

The Ligue 1 outfit came from nowhere to be the talk of European football on their way to the semi-finals, led by their uber-talented teenage forward

The Parisians win against Lens, while De Zerbi's team draws at home against Racing Strasbourg. Now nine points separate the two teams

French Ligue 1 results on Friday: Lens v Paris Saint-Germain (1600), Rennes v Brest (1800), Lyon v Toulouse (2005)

Deiver Machado scores late as seventh-place Lens wins 2-1 at struggling Le Havre in the French league to move one point behind Lyon in sixth.

French Ligue 1 results on Saturday: Le Havre v Lens (1400), Toulouse v Strasbourg, Montpellier v Angers (both 1615), Paris Saint-Germain v Saint-Etienne (1945)

Lyon are desperate to get back into the Champions League but their stuttering start to the new year threatens that ambition just as they face serious financial problems and their American owner finds himself making enemies with the French league.

Very disappointed by the result of the match, the Monegasque technician tried to deliver his analysis in a post-match press conference, following a defeat for the Rouge et Blanc in Montpellier

From a focus on youth to its unforgiving physicality, there are a raft of factors that make France's top flight a fertile recruiting ground

Our reporter, Herbert Boakye Yiadom, brings you a compilation of the performances of Ghanaian players abroad with their respective clubs.Players on the scoresheet over the weekendRansford Yeboah Konigsdorffer climbed off the bench to score for Hamburger in their 1-0 win over FC Koln.