Aston Villa's penultimate Champions League league phase clash comes against AS Monaco on Tuesday night (5:45pm kick-off)

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

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.

Nantes had won just one of their last 13 league games, but they took the lead in the 12th minute with Sorba Thomas setting up Matthis Abline.

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

Very disappointed by the result of the match, the Monegasque technician tried to deliver his analysis in a post-match press conference, following a defeat for the Rouge et Blanc in Montpellier

French Ligue 1 results on Saturday: Saint-Etienne v Nantes (1400), Reims v Le Havre, Angers v Auxerre (both 1615), Marseille v Strasbourg (1945)

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

Paris Saint-Germain beat Lens 1-2 at Stade

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

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