Lens vs [Team Name] – Survival Showdown This Weekend

They were expected like messiahs and were expected to give the 65,000 guests the evening of the century. They ultimately came empty-handed, were not good company and did not help clear out, but here Mason Greenwood and his team were invited back to Boulevard Michelet 72 hours after the severe but deserved defeat against Liverpool.

Another match, another adversity but still XXL stakes, this time without the Bruges joker to try to save the furniture a week later: this evening, the Olympians play their probable last card in a title race made very hypothetical (but not impossible) by the 8 and 10 points behind conceded to Lens and Paris (which has one more match), and must refuel under penalty of losing their third place, the last qualifier directly for the next Champions League, a question of survival for OM’s finances.

A Ligue 1 classic between two allies behind the scenes

Facing the club of Joseph Oughourlian, with whom Frank McCourt and Pablo Longoria lead the timid anti-Labrune revolt in the back kitchen of French football, clashes for the podium have become a habit since the rise of the Blood and…