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

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.

Monaco were on course for a third defeat in six Ligue 1 matches, but fought back for a share of the spoils against Nantes.

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

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

Across the English Premier League, several Ghanaian players were involved. Jordan Ayew played 71 minutes for Leicester City in their 2-0 defeat to Fulham. Thomas Partey completed 90 minutes for Arsenal, helping secure a 2-2 draw against Aston Villa. Tariq Lamptey came on as a substitute for Brighton in their 3-1 win over Manchester United.

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

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

Mason Greenwood converted a penalty to secure a 1-1 draw for Olympique de Marseille against Strasbourg on Sunday at the Stade Vélodrome.

Nantes 1 (Simon 14) Reims 1 (Munetsi 26) Le Havre 1 (Sangante 67) Angers 2 (Diomande 18-og, Lepaul 47) Auxerre 0 Marseille 1 (Greenwood 68-pen) Strasbourg 1 (Emegha 23) Played Saturday Lens 1 (Nzola 36) Paris Saint-Germain 2 (Ruiz 59,

Lyon has been struggling to move forward for a month, weighed down by two setbacks and credited with success only