After its setback on the Sporting pitch (2-0), Lille faces an insane schedule in the Champions League, with Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid, Juventus and AC Milan on the menu for the next two months (without forgetting Liverpool in January). Among all these posters, Losc will have a very important meeting to negotiate in the championship. Against RC Lens.
The date of the northern derby fell on Wednesday with the officialization of the program of the 9e lifting of Ligue 1. The Mastiffs will have to travel to Bollaert on Saturday October 26, just three days after a trip to the Spanish capital to face the Colchoneros. A sequence which drives Bruno Genesio crazy, who considers the arrangement dictated by the TV broadcasters in a weekend which will also count as Nice-Monaco and OM-PSG dangerous for his team.
“It’s irresponsible”
“ Surprised, the word is weak. I’m… I don’t even want to say the word because I want to be politesays the northern coach, asked about the issue this Thursday at a press conference. It’s irresponsible, even though I know I’m not going to make just friends. Coming to Monaco, Madrid then Lens on Saturday, it’s just scandalous! »
And to add: “ People will tell me that there is Marseille-PSG and Nice-Monaco, but when we make a calendar, we know that. If we think a little about football, we don’t put these three matches on the same day. Football belongs to the players, the essential players in football. Without them, there is no TV, no coach, no referee, no president of the League, nothing!
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This before threatening, in the form of a joke of course: “
Maybe we will go to Madrid with a reserve team to preserve ourselves for the derby. And then we will be criticized for not playing the Champions League to the fullest… »
