The Official Ligue 1 Podcast - Le Beau Jeu

BT Sport's French football expert Julien Laurens and host Rob Cottingham join Le Beau Jeu's Ian Holyman and Andy Scott to select the best XI from the opening 17 matches of the 2020/21 Ligue 1 Uber Eats campaign 🇨🇵🔝⚽ Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Mauricio Pochettino is 🔙 at Paris Saint-Germain  - Matt, Armel and Robbie pick apart the 🆕 man's appointment and Thomas Tuchel's Christmas Eve sacking 😢🎄Robbie reveals the 'Poch' is "a very nice man" 😍 while Armel wonders whether the Nantes squad have ever heard of Raymond Domenech 🤔🐤 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

The Lille defender and UEFA EURO 2016 winner tells Le Beau Jeu's Matt Spiro about the influence new Paris Saint-Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino had on him when the pair worked together at Southampton 🔝💪💥 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Ian jumps into the host's hotseat to grill Matt about the sacking of Thomas Tuchel and the appointment of Mauricio Pochettino as the new coach of Paris Saint-Germain 🔴🔄🔵 What does the former Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur manager's return to football mean for the French champions? 🇨🇵 Why did Tuchel have to go? And what are the priorties on Pochettino's 'to-do' list?  Hosted on Ausha. See aus...

Dave, Matt and Robbie run the rule over Paris Saint-Germain and Lille's 🔝-of-the-table encounter 🇨🇵 vaunt Lyon's impressive front 3️⃣ 🦁 and ponder who'll be walking the plank in Montpellier ⚓ Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Matt is joined by Armel, Robbie and Tom Williams as the panel pays tribute to Gérard Houllier 😢 looks at how Lyon unlocked the PSG rearguard at the Parc des Princes 🔐 and have raised real hopes of a red-🔥 title race this season 🏆🐎 big up the job Christophe Galtier has done in taking Lille 🔝 of the league ⤴️and there's the toughest Déjà Who yet 😐🤔 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-polic...

Ian and Robbie join Matt to laud the phenomenon that is Kylian Mbappé after he bags his 💯th Paris Saint-Germain goal ⚽ there's ❤️ for Lyon and Lille as they keep up the pace in the title race 🏃and the panel take a closer look 🔍 at the shelf life of Ligue 1 Uber Eats coaches after Patrick Vieira is shown the 🚪 by Nice Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Following a Ligue 1 Uber Eats and Le Beau Jeu tribute to the late and truly great Diego Maradona featuring Robbie Slater 🇦🇷😢 there's tension in the pod panel as Matt, Armel and Dave go in hard early doors on Robbie's boys after a tough week for Paris Saint-Germain 💪🥊 What's going on with Patrick Vieira's Nice? 😱🤔⤵️And Lyon get some TLC (Title Lyon Contenders?)🦁❤️ Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.c...

Matt is joined by Armel and Robbie to praise Monaco's come-from-behind win over PSG as inspired by Cesc Fabregas 💪🌟 laud Jonathan David's maiden Ligue 1 goal for Lille and wonder how much Yusuf Yazici is like Dimitar Berbatov 👏😍and give Brest deserved plaudits for their entertaining play ⚽🇨🇵 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Matt, Dave and Robbie discuss Lyon's Rhône derby win over Saint-Etienne 🦁💚 the impact Moise Kean has had at Paris Saint-Germain 💪 (and how to pronounce his name like an Italian) 🇮🇹 ponder the reasons for Lille's surprise loss at Brest 😱🤔and praise Niko Kovac's Monaco all before a late lunch ⚽🇨🇵 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Matt is back as host as he, Dave and Armel set about the weekend's action in France 🇨🇵⚽ Unsurprisingly, the boys want Briand 🔙 for Bordeaux, marvel at Volland taking off at Monaco ✈️ press Jonathan Bamba's France claims 🤔 and ask Ligue 1 to make life a little harder for PSG 💪🥊 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Tom Williams and Robbie Thomson join guest host David Crossan to take stock of the weekend's action from France 🇨🇵⚽ Moise Kean and Kylian Mbappé run riot for Paris Saint-Germain 💥 Nice and Lille show their mettle as European contenders 🔝 while Marseille scrape through and Rennes run aground ⛔ Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Armel and Dave join Matt in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower to dissect Paris Saint-Germain's dismissal of Nîmes🔵💪🔴 weigh up the possibility of Nice finishing in the top 3🤔 laud Marseille as they celebrate Andre Villas-Boas' birthday in style🎂 and assess the Ligue 1 trio's chances in the UEFA Champions League ⚽🇨🇵 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Le Beau Jeu's Robbie Thomson sits down with Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Ander Herrera who reveals his absolute passion for the game remains undimmed and the Spain international talks about how much he and his PSG teammates miss the fans ⚽🇨🇵 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Matt is joined by Armel and Robbie for the Olympico post-mortem as Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique de Marseille continue to struggle 😰 PSG roll on, but were they really that impressive against Angers ⁉️ and hear Ander Herrera's thoughts on his place in the French champions' squad 🇨🇵 and why he wants the fans 🔙 in football ⚽ as soon as possible 👏 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy fo...

Matt is joined by Armel, Ian and Robbie in heated debate over Mauro Icardi's hair ✂️and his first touch 💅 Is Neymar really at the beach? 🏖️Can Rennes maintain a title challenge ❓Are Lille a top 3️⃣side? And the 🆙s (and downs ⤵️) of Gaël Kakuta 🇨🇵⚽ Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Armel, Dave and Robbie join Matt to praise the work of Claude Puel with Saint-Étienne's Green-horns 💚👼there's an ode to Téji Savanier with Montpellier on 🔥 Kylian Mbappé is back with a 💥 as PSG make it nice in Nice 🔴😎🔵and Déjà Who? is 🔙🍾 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Bordeaux striker Josh Maja tells Le Beau Jeu's Ian Holyman about the club's 2020/21 ambitions 🆙 the pre-season turmoil as Paulo Sousa was replaced by Jean-Louis Gasset 🔄 the personality that makes Les Girondins' new coach a success 👏 and the Nigeria international reveals the secrets that have made Jimmy Briand a legendary Ligue 1 striker (and podcast icon) 💪🦁 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/pri...

Matt is joined by Armel, Dave and Robbie as the smoke clears following a fiery and bad-tempered Classique between Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille 🔥🥊There's also a round-up of the weekend's action which saw Rennes, Monaco and Lille all win to move to the 🔝 of the table ⤴️ Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Go inside French football's biggest game and most bitter rivalry, and hear what former Olympique de Marseille 🌟s Boudewijn Zenden and Chris Makin had to say about playing - and winning - Le Classique against Paris Saint-Germain ⚽🇨🇵 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Armel, Robbie and French journalist Cyril Olivès-Berthet join Matt in Paris to ponder whether Memphis Depay's hat-trick against Dijon was his Lyon swansong 🦁👋 The panel goes gooey-eyed over Florian Thauvin's Marseille performance 😍 wax lyrical over Eduardo Camavinga's promptings for Rennes 🎶 and laud Kasper Dolberg's new haircut/impressive display for Patrick Vieira's early season leaders Nice...

Matt is joined by Armel and Dave in Paris, and Andy and Robbie from Lisbon to pick over the bones of PSG's UEFA Champions League final defeat to Bayern Munich 🔴😥🔵There's also a close look at Monaco's start to the new Ligue 1 Uber Eats season among the first round of games in the French top flight 🇨🇵⚽ and we hear from Lorient's Austrian goalgetter Adrian Grbic 🇦🇹🎯 Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co...

Football is back in France 🇨🇵 and while Paris Saint-Germain prepare for the UEFA Champions League final, their Ligue 1 Uber Eats rivals will return to domestic action ⚽🔙 Matt, Andy, Ian, and guest Jonathan Johnson look ahead to the new campaign and make some bold (i.e. wildly inaccurate) predictions 🤔🤐  Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Matt is joined by Andy and Robbie from Lisbon as well as Ian and French football expert Jonathan Johnson to look ahead to Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyonnais' UEFA Champions League semi-finals 🇨🇵💪🔥⚽ The boys also get stuck into this weekend's start of the Ligue 1 Uber Eats season and make some bold predictions that will no doubt make them look very silly... Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/...

Matt is joined by Armel, Joachim Barbier and Tom Williams to talk about (and up) the chances of Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon in the Champions League 🔴🔵🦁 Robbie Thomson, who is with the PSG squad in Portugal, joins in too as the boys analyse the Ligue 1 Uber Eats duo's upcoming quarter-finals against Atalanta and Manchester City 🇨🇵⚽ Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more informat...