The third round off European qualification completed during the week, further narrowing the list of Americans attempting to reach the various League Phases. Erik Palmer-Brown will breathe a sigh of relief after his team’s narrow win, while the American pair of Cameron Carter-Vickers and Auston Trusty at Celtic learned their opponents as they begin their adventure next week in the play-off round.
The road to the group stage of European competition continued rolling along, with the third qualification rounds of the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League all kicking off last week.
Miami-born Konrad de la Fuente, who spent eight years in the Barcelona system, has joined Swiss club Lausanne sport on a permanent transfer after parting ways with former club Marseille.
USMNT and Arsenal keeper contender Matt Turner found out the opponents for his best chance at playing time before heading to Qatar, with two games against PSV and Richard Ledezma being one of the overall highlights of the Europa League group stage.
The matchups for the final 16 of the Europa Conference league were set on Friday, sending Konrad de la Fuente and his Marseille teammates to neighboring Switzerland to face Basel.
Konrad de la Fuente finally opened his scoring account for Marseille as they easily advanced, while Cameron Carter Vickers was mercifully given a rest in Celtic’s listless loss in Norway.
Nicholas Gioacchini would start for Montpellier while Konrad de la Fuente was ruled out of the Marseille squad due to “physical discomfort” as the Mediterranean side advanced on penalties to the quarterfinals of the French Cup.
Tim Weah continued his journey back to full fitness as he puts in a shift for Lille, while Palmer-Brown goes the distance in Ligue 1 action. Brest 2 – 0 Lille OSC Lille threw away any chance of collecting some road points as they contributed to Brest’s cause with a very early own goal, followed […]
Erik Palmer-Brown started for Troyes for the first time since October, and was responsible for giving up a penalty in weekend Ligue 1 action.
The French Ligue 1 season finished out the year a few days before Christmas ending at Week 19, which means that half of the season has been completed already.
