Fifa 2001 French Ligue 1 Qualifications

French league is very equal since a last two decades. We got the famous PSG, Monaco and Marsille, but almost every season some new team pops up. Nantes, Lyon, Lens, Auxerre, Bordeaux all those teams are also considered to be strong and probably aim for the final. So as you can supose the competition was very equal and tight. Guingamp looked good in their first two games winning both with four goals (against Lille and Lens), but in the Quater finals Lyon stopped them. PSG faced Monaco in their first game... and lost with a single goal from Giuly. Strasbourg, St. Etienne, Lyon and Nantes that was the final four. Strasbourg show a great potential lead by their star striker Daniel Ljuboja and a great form from Zitelli. Ljuboja scored hattrick in the semis against St. Etienne and in the final game Strasbourg had to face Lyon. Olympique was a sure favourite but this time Zitelli made the difference. Two heroes of this competition Zitelli and Ljuboja given Strasbourg a suprise but deserved place in the finals.




HIGHLIGHTS

SCORES

1 Round 

Guingamp 4:0 Lille
1:0 Fiorese
2:0 Michel
3:0 Rodriguez
4:0 Tasfaout

Strasbourg 3:1 Troyes
1:0 Ljuboja
2:0 Zitelli
2:1 Gousse
3:1 Ljuboja

2 Round

Nantes 4:0 Bastia
1:0 Moldovan
2:0 Monterrubio
3:0 Moldovan
4:0 Ziani

Auxerre 1:0 Metz
1:0 Kapo Obou

Guingamp 5:1 Lens
1:0 Tasfaout
2:0 Fournier
2:1 Fuertes
3:1 Tasfaout
4:1 Rodriguez
5:1 Rodriguez

Bordeaux 0:1 Lyon
0:1 Vairelles

St. Etienne 2:1 Rennes
1:0 Panov
1:1 Turdo
2:1 Panov

Monaco 1:0 PSG
1:0 Giuly

Strasbourg 1:0 Sedan
1:0 Luyindula

Marseille 2:0 Touluse
1:0 Marcelinho
2:0 C Adriano

Quater Finals

Strasbourg 2:0 Auxerre
1:0 Ljuboja
2:0 Ljuboja

St. Etienne 1:0 Marseille
1:0 Wallemme

Lyon 3:0 Guingamp
1:0 Anderson
2:0 Anderson
3:0 Anderson

Nantes 2:0 Monaco
1:0 Moldovan
2:0 Moldovan

Semi Finals

Strasbourg 3:0 St. Etienne
1:0 Ljuboja
2:0 Ljuboja
3:0 Ljuboja

Lyon 4:0 Nantes
1:0 Anderson
2:0 Vairelles
3:0 Vairelles
4:0 Dhorasoo

FINAL

Strasbourg 3:0 Lyon
1:0 Zitelli
2:0 Ehret
3:0 Zitelli

Top Scorers
Ljuboja (Strasbourg) - 7
Moldovan (Nantes) - 4
Anderson (Lyon) - 4

MVP - Zitelli (Strasbourg)