Paris (AFP)

Lyon and weakened coach Sylvinho go to Leipzig to recover, Wednesday in a second day of the Champions League where Lille receives the scarecrow Chelsea, two weeks after his failed reunion with the prestigious European Cup.

The mid-week stand will be held at Anfield, where defending champion Liverpool will try to clear his spoiled start in Napoli (2-0 defeat). Jurgen Klopp's Reds, the last of their group, received the leader Salzburg who had scored Genk 6-2 with a hat-trick of the Norwegian prodigy Erling Braut Haaland.

The other European summit will face FC Barcelona at Inter Milan, currently leading the Italian league, in a group F made undecided by the two draws at the start of the competition.

On the side of French clubs, it's already time to win.

After having stomped in against Zenit Saint-Petersburg (1-1), Lyon must regain momentum on the ground of the RB Leipzig, as much for the continuation of the European adventures as for the future of its Brazilian coach, already suspended.

- Rejuvenated Chelsea -

OL are in "a crisis situation," acknowledged Sylvinho Saturday after another defeat in the league. A misstep in Germany and the pressure will rise one more notch around the former player Arsenal and Barca, four days from the derby in Saint-Etienne ...

And as the bad news flew in squadron on the side of Lyon, the defender and captain Jason Denayer is forfeited in Leipzig, as forward Maxwel Cornet, also injured.

The dynamic is different in the camp opposite. The German club finds the European scene in the shoes of the runner-up of Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, and especially in that of leader of the group G, thanks to the doubling of his striker Timo Werner against Benfica (2-1) on 17 September. But Leipzig missed its last league exit, beaten at home (3-1) by Schalke 04.

The other French club engaged Wednesday, Lille, will also have much to do against Chelsea, the last winner of the Europa League.

The South London team, weakened this summer by the departure of its leader Eden Hazard, finds a second youth forced and forced by the prohibition of recruitment decided by UEFA. And also pushed by Frank Lampard, the former idol of the "Blues", who trusted defender Fikayo Tomori (21), midfielder Mason Mount (20) and striker Tammy Abraham (21) , preferred to Olivier Giroud in the Premier League.

But it missed its debut against Valencia (1-0 defeat in England), which makes it even more dangerous for Lille sounded by their opening defeat in Amsterdam (3-0) against Ajax.

"We take two avoidable goals and we do not score, these are things that can be corrected," said the president of Lille Gérard Lopez. It remains to be seen if his team, back in C1 after seven years of absence, will succeed.

Matches of the second day of the Champions League played on Wednesday:

Group E

(18h55) Genk (BEL) - Naples (ITA)

(9 pm) Liverpool (ENG) - RB Salzburg (AUT)

Group F

(18h55) Slavia Prague (CZE) - Dortmund (GER)

(21h00) Barcelona (ESP) - Inter Milan (ITA)

Group G

(9:00 pm) Zenit St. Petersburg (RUS) - Benfica (POR)

(9 pm) RB Leipzig (GER) - Lyon (FRA)

Group H

(9:00 pm) Lille (FRA) - Chelsea (ENG)

(9:00 pm) Valencia CF (ESP) - Ajax Amsterdam (NED)

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