SEVILLE – LENS. The Sang et Or enter the competition in this Champions League where they travel to Spain to face Sevilla FC. Time, TV broadcast, probable lines… Discover all the information on this European poster.
This Wednesday evening, the Racing Club de Lens meets to write a new page in its European history. The Lensois are participating in the Champions League for the third time in their history after the 1998/1999 and 2002/2003 seasons. This evening, Jonathan Gradit and his teammates travel to Spain to face a team that is used to competing in Europe: Sevilla FC. Deprived of Jimmy Cabot, David Costa and Wuilker Farinez, Franck Haise will be able to launch his season today after a complicated start to the season in Ligue 1 (1 point and last in the championship). For this meeting in Andalusia, the RC Lens coach is confident: “If we are 100% collectively and individually, as the team has already done, and not just in one or two matches, we are really able to cause problems for the teams in our group, I’m sure of it. What’s important is to be authentic. You shouldn’t play with fear. I’ve been telling them for 3 and a half years. You have to play with it trust because there are a lot of interesting things in our content.”
On the Sevillian side, the situation is not so different from Lensois with a 17th place in La Liga. But the signing of Sergio Ramos in the last transfer window brings new defensive stability which allowed the Andalusians not to concede a goal for the first time this season last weekend. While coach José Luis Mendilibar is singled out after the poor results at the start of the season, the Spanish coach paid tribute to the Lens group and the work of Franck Haise at a press conference: “Lens has lost some good players gone to other championships. It is also true that they started badly, with only one draw in the five games played. They are not yet at the level of last season. They have had a coach (Franck Haise) since five years and I don’t think he is nervous about the current situation. I think he has a very clear style of play which for one reason or another is not yielding results this season but I am convinced that he is not going to change and that he will continue to apply his idea.”
Kick-off for the Champions League match between Sevilla FC and Lens is scheduled for Wednesday September 20 at 9:00 p.m. at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville (Spain). German Tobias Stieler will be the match referee.
Holders of the TV rights to the Champions League, Canal and RMC Sport 1 will broadcast the meeting between Sevilla FC and RC Lens.
If you want to watch the Champions League match between Sevilla and Lens on your computer, smartphone or tablet, you will need to take out a subscription on MyCanal or on RMC Sport.
Seville: Dmitrovic (G) – Pedrosa, Bade, S. Ramos, Navas – Sow, Rakitic – Ocampos, Torres, Lukebakio – En-Nesyri.
Lens: Samba (G) – Medina, Dance, Gradit – Machado, Thomasson, Abdul Samed, Frankowski – Fulgini, Sotoca – Revelation.
