Le Losc advance confident at the start of the Europa League -
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Lille begins this Thursday in Prague the group stage of the Europa League.
In a prestigious group with Celtic and AC Milan, the new leader of Ligue 1 has the weapons and the manpower to get out of the pools, his goal posted at the start of the season.
You have to really scrape the bottom of the drawer to find it, but the Covid can also have some positive aspects.
For Losc, which begins its Europa League campaign this Thursday evening on the lawn of Sparta Prague, the pandemic has kept many players in the workforce.
In a transfer market rendered sluggish by the coronavirus and its economic consequences, Lille has lost only three management players from last season (Osimhen, Gabriel and Rémy).
This is little for a club that has specialized in trading since 2017 and the arrival of Gérard Lopez at the helm of the club.
But it could especially become an asset when it comes to stringing matches every three days between Ligue 1 and Europa League.
A workforce capable of having it both ways
Falling into a prestigious group with AC Milan, Celtic Glasgow and Sparta Prague, the northern club can still look their opponents in the eye.
With his status as leader of Ligue 1 and with his 26 players under professional contract, he has plenty to play on both counts.
Essential when starting a 6-game 18-day marathon.
“The players are ready to play a series of matches, but when you play four times in two weeks, that's a lot.
I'm going to try to keep the players from getting tired because once it's there it's much harder to recover.
We will look at the playing times, especially those who have left for selection.
There will automatically be freshness injected, ”warns Christophe Galtier, the northern coach.
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The technician will thus be able to remove a little frustration from those who consider themselves wronged in terms of playing time since the start of the season (Foot, Soumaré, Xeka, Lihadji, Ikoné, Yazici…).
Eager to get out of the hens, Losc, who played in the Champions League last season, can also use this experience to grow on the European scene.
With good gear in reserve, the leader of Ligue 1 has solid arguments to make.
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