• After a complicated start to the season, the outgoing French champion won his first league success on Sunday against Montpellier.

  • A relief for the players and the coach even if a lot of things still need to be settled.

Lille players acclaimed by their audience at the end of the match.

Covid requires, the scene had not been seen for more than a year at the Pierre Mauroy stadium.

But this Sunday, the Losc finally returned to popular communion in its enclosure.

Winner of Montpellier (2-1), the outgoing French champion won his first success of the season at the end of the fourth day of Ligue 1. Clearly enough to relieve Jocelyn Gourvennec, a Lille coach expected at the turn after a start difficult championship.

“It was important to win, to reposition ourselves in the standings (10th), to show the public that we were not satisfied with the last home game (0-4 defeat against Nice).

I think we had a full game, not perfect but full.

We still fished in the lack of efficiency, ”admits the Lille coach.

A very feverish defense since the start of the season

Because this first success of the season has not yet removed all the doubts of the start of the season on the Lille side.

Losc was not sovereign at the end of the match despite a numerical superiority following the expulsion of Junior Samba (73rd).

Blame it on a still a little feverish defense like Tiago Djalo uncomfortable in his right lane.

Overall, since the start of the season, last year's best defense has already conceded nine goals in four games.

Annoying when you aim for the top of the table, as Benjamin André recognizes. 

A limited workforce to have it both ways

“Obviously we are not satisfied with the start of the championship.

We're not supposed to take that many goals.

We have to do a lot better in the game, in the duels.

The team has changed very little, the qualities are there.

We know what to do.

We have to get the machine going, ”insists a midfielder who does not hide his doubts when asked if the current workforce is capable of playing both Ligue 1 and the Champions League.

“I don't know if we are sufficiently armed.

We will see what will happen in the next few days.

We have quality, we have a lot of players but that will depend on the last movements of the transfer window, ”concludes Benjamin André.

Even if given the complicated economic context, Lille could especially lose players (Ikoné, Celik ...) rather than strengthen by Tuesday evening, date of the end of the transfer window.

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