Lille exude confidence at the start of the season -

DENIS CHARLET / AFP

  • After seven days, the northern club is an undefeated leader in Ligue 1.

  • A status that the northern club could keep for several weeks given the quality of its workforce.

Seventeen points on the clock, no defeat and two small goals conceded.

New leader of Ligue 1 since its great success on Sunday night in the North Derby (4-0), Losc is making one of the best start to the season in its history.

The best defense in the championship is a steamroller that works on almost all of its opponents.

If his game is not always licked, his defensive power impresses with an impregnable Fonte-Botman axis and a Sanches-André midfielder which has no equivalent in France.

Up front, the potential is also impressive despite the continued ineffectiveness of Jonathan David who is unable to shake his tag as the club's biggest transfer.

In short, all is well or almost in the North because Losc seems to have the arguments to stay at the top of the table for a long time.

Champions League goal

“The goal set by our president is to be in the top three and relive a Champions League campaign.

We must take advantage of our start to the season.

I have a workforce that could have been changed before the end of the transfer window but that was not the case.

It's up to us to take advantage of it, ”explains Christophe Galtier, the northern coach.

With the particular context of Covid-19, the Losc sold less than usual this summer and was therefore able to retain a large framework from last season.

A real plus when we know that Lille is still surfing on the dynamics of a past season yet aborted by confinement as Galtier reminds us.

On the dynamics of last season

“Since the 15th day of the championship last year, we have played 21 games since.

We have 4 defeats, 2 draws and a lot of victories.

We are in the continuity of what we did in the second part of the season last year and we have not changed anything in our work.

Are we going to be first for long?

I don't know, but you have to take advantage of these moments.

It also allows us to have points in advance when there will be more difficult moments in the season, ”continues the northerner coach.

Only downside: the start of the Europa League on Thursday and the sequence of matches every three days until Christmas will force Galtier to make choices and frequent rotations without his rich workforce.

This management will undoubtedly depend a good part of the rest of the Lille season.

A problem of the rich for a club in full confidence.

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