Having won 2-1 over Panathinaikos last week at Bollaert, thanks to goals from Przemyslaw Frankowski and Wesley Said, RC Lens has a slight advantage before their return match on Thursday evening (8pm) in Athens, in the Conference League play-offs. Will Still’s team has the opportunity to enjoy a great European adventure in a C4 mainly reserved for clubs from small European countries (small in terms of football).
In case of qualification, the Blood and Gold would find themselves in pot 3 of the draw (Friday 2:30 p.m.). The pots are less important (as in the Champions League and Europa League), since the Conference League teams will face one team per pot. There will be six pots in the Conference and as many opponents (compared to 8 in the Champions League and Champions League). Among the seeded teams, we will find, if all goes well, Chelsea, Fiorentina or Nabil Fekir’s Real Betis. Heavyweights.
RC Lens in Armenia?
But all the groups without exception are proposing long and very restrictive journeys, with a departure on Wednesday (for the press conferences in the match stadium) and a return during the night from Thursday to Friday at best. Başakşehir, the Istanbul team, is in hat 1 of the projections of
Football RankingsMolde, in the north of Norway, is in pot 2 and HJK Helsinki in pot 3 along with Lens.
Then we find FK RFS, a club from Riga, Latvia, in pot 4 or Petrocub Hincesti in Moldova, not far from the Ukrainian border (and Odessa), in pot 5. Finally, pot 6 offers the most possible trips to the other end of the Old Continent, with the presence of FK Dinamo Minsk, in Belarus, FC Noah, in Armenia, or Vikingur Reykjavik, in Iceland. If all these teams mentioned come out of the play-offs alive like RC Lens.
