Adam White

New from me on Ligue 1's relegation battle. 10 teams could yet be drawn in, who's best placed to survive? theguardian.com/football/202…

New from me for @guardian_sport, a look at Ligue 1's surprise European challengers, Stade Brest. theguardian.com/football/202…

My latest for the @guardian, Bruno Génésio worries for his job after Rennes lose to lowly Lyon in Ligue 1. theguardian.com/football/202…

Absolutely outrageous driving from Fernando Alonso. Amazing.

🖊️ | For @guardian, a look at Lyon's utter disarray - is relegation possible? theguardian.com/football/202…

Not sure Chelsea were all that good, as coverage suggests. They cleverly nullified Arsenal build up but didn't create much & only led via a dodgy pen and a fluke. Plus Arsenal were terrible for an hour+. Palmer/Sterling only intermittently had an affect, they set up like a side who know they're playing a superior force and got lucky.

Funny how PSG finally invested in defense but signed the wrong profiles. Hernandez, Skriniar & Ugarte are more defensively minded than progressive and (along with Gigi + even Hakimi/Marq) aren't remotely press resistant by CL standards as NUFC exposed. Start again?... Again?

Newcastle lead not a surprise, they're the perfect team to expose PSG who don't have the technical quality, boldness, experience or plan to break their press, or any decent press tbh.

Chelsea's last 35 PL games = a relegation season: P 35 W 6 D 12 L 17 Pts 30 The 0.86 points per game here works out to just 33 points over 38 games. Leicester went down with 34 last year.

🖊️ | For @guardian, Marseille are a managerless mess and their fans deserve much of the blame. theguardian.com/football/202…

Scenes.

🖊️ | The Lens rise might be over, bringing disastrous consequences. bit.ly/3PJHiwS

🖊️ | Nice's defeat of PSG offers a simple blueprint for Paris' tough Champions League opponents - could PSG finish bottom of their group? theguardian.com/football/202…

With Ligue 1 returning tomorrow, check out our super season guide. Loads of fun to design as always!

How Branco van den Boomen could transform Ajax's midfield.

Nicolas Jackson really sticks out on this list. Ok, it's early & a small sample size but a 9 was Chelsea's key summer signing but they took their biggest risk. No real CV but needs to score 25+ goals for an already wasteful team - so easily could go wrong. The form of the rest here just underlines the underperformance too.

Interesting experiment potentially but can't see it going well. Nagelsmann needs time + consistency to translate his specific ideas, he won't get it. The considered methodical style/experience of Deschamps, Löw, even Southgate, goes far in internationals. Not sure he has that.

Huge for TéFéCé, could keep them up after a poor transfer window.

Both the most joyful & most frustrating L1 player of the last decade. Unique, supremely talented + routinely brilliant but has failed (by some way) to reach his potential. Could (should) be the best midfielder of his generation. Should have looked after himself better too.

Flick is the first-ever Germany manager to be sacked outright, but that says more about how average his team is (outside midfield) than his abilities as a coach. Germany have forgotten how to produce players like Miroslav Klose, just as key to winning as all their technicality.