The top 10 viral moments from the Ligue 1 season 🍿
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Meltdowns, beautiful moves, and laughter: let's dive back into this crazy 2024-25 Ligue 1 season thanks to the ten most buzzworthy images... of the season!
Fonseca's Outburst 😳
March 2, 2025, Olympique Lyonnais hosts Brest for the 24th matchday of Ligue 1.
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At the end of the game, Paulo Fonseca is sent off by the referee, Benoît Millot. The Lyon coach, who had only arrived a few weeks earlier to replace Pierre Sage, loses his cool and presses his forehead against that of the man in black.
A fatal head-to-head for the Portuguese coach, who was suspended for nine months and banned from the locker room for seven months by the LFP disciplinary committee.
Donnarumma's Scar 😱
The terrible foul suffered by Gianluigi Donnarumma on AS Monaco's pitch last December made headlines around the world.
It's "too corrupt" 😭
Matchday 23, OM is thrashed 3-0 on the promoted Auxerre's pitch. In the locker room at Stade de l'Abbé Deschamps, Marseille president Pablo Longoria completely loses it. An absolutely surreal scene that quickly went viral on the internet.
When De Zerbi Threatened to Resign...
The first leg between OM and AJA was also full of twists and turns!
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Auxerre won 3-1 at the Vélodrome, and Roberto De Zerbi, in the post-match press conference, hinted at a possible resignation...
Clash Between Presidents ⚔️
February 2025. The France 2 show "Complément d'enquête" and the newspaper L'Equipe got their hands on a video of a heated meeting on July 14, 2024, between Ligue 1 presidents in the middle of TV rights negotiations for the championship.
Things got heated between John Textor and Nasser Al-Khelaïfi...
John, the Cowboy 🤠
As fate would have it, a few days after these revelations, OL hosted PSG! Of course, John Textor showed up with a cowboy hat...
A Doliprane for the Assistant 🥸
The return derby between AS Saint-Etienne and OL was stopped for several minutes after one of the assistant referees was hit on the back of the head by a coin thrown from the stands.
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Fortunately, he took a Doliprane and the match was able to resume...
No More Dining Out on Friday Nights 🥹
DAZN, this season's main Ligue 1 broadcaster, never really took off. The reason: the starting price (€30) for a monthly subscription to the channel discouraged many fans.
Laurent Nicollin, president of Montpellier, then proposed a... rather unique solution in the pages of L'Equipe.
Chevalier and Diakité's Funny Cigars 🧨
Lucas Chevalier and Bafodé Diakité celebrated Lille's victory in the derby against RC Lens with flares in their mouths. Not bad!
The Will Still Style
After PSG - Lens (1-0), Will Still was asked the most bizarre question of the season in a press conference.
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