League 1: Lille held in check in Saint-Etienne

LOSC players conceded a draw without inspiration against Stéphanois, not reassuring before meeting Chelsea in the Champions League.

Le Monde with AFP

has five days from the game back against Chelsea in 8 e Champions League Final, Lille was kept in check by Saint-Etienne (0-0), 16 e In the league standings 1. A result that has to worry while the northerners had already lost 2 to 0 to go against the English club.

The LOSC has undergone a setback with the output on the wound of the Renato Sanches. Portuguese, who injured himself to the left thigh on an acceleration at e minute, will probably be package for the European duel Wednesday. To go, the former Bayern Munich player had been the only Lille to climb to the Eastern European Champion.

The dogs, which could arrange temporarily of the fifth place, have lost two precious points at home and missed the opportunity to put pressure on their direct competitors for European squares. With 43 points, they point to the sixth place, just in front of Nantes (42), that they will challenge the Beaujoire next weekend.

The Asse, solid defensively and dangerous against, grapple a point and climbs at the e rank with 26 points, two more than the barrake, Lorient, and thus moves away from The relegation zone.

Dogs have often had a lot of trouble creating game, like a fantomatic Hatem Ben Arfa, while Stéphanois have been strong and seductive offensively, including a very legged Denis Bouanga.

Pascal Dupraz players have posed a lot of problems with the North Defense. Thus, after a center of Thimothée Kolodziejczak repoussé in extremis by Tiago Djalo (17 e ), the first opportunity was the work of Mahdi Camara of a strike well blocked by Leo Jardim on a center of Bouanga that Ryad Boudebouz had cleverly let pass (24 e ).

Little flattering statistics

Zeki Celik, the best Northern on Friday, then made a decisive intervention in the surface against Arnaud Nordin (29 e ), and then his return broke the Forezian striker who stopped on the Guardian Lille (45 e +2).

The Turkish right side failed to be decisive at the other end of the field on the only opportunity of the LOSC: after an overflow right side, Jonathan Bamba has centered behind and the balloon poorly cleared returned to Celik, who has sent its powerful shot on the post (40 e ).

During this match, the Lille experienced all the sentences of the world to approach the cage of Paul Bernardoni. With only two shots runs throughout the meeting and a great technical waste, their statistics are indeed un flattering.

If they have chained a fifth match without a continuation goal in Ligue 1, the dogs will have to do much more in the offensive animation to hope to worry Chelsea on Wednesday. And without Renato Sanches, it looks complicated …

/Media reports.