2024-08-22 21:09:13
On a different level, the people of Lens imitate their neighbors in the north of France. In the first round of the Champions League, Lille dominated Slavia Prague (2-0). The Sang et Tabi will not leave with a two-goal advantage in the return match, but they did not shake against Panathinaikos, with more than seventy minutes lived in numerical inferiority, this Thursday at Bollaert stadium (2 -1).
They started with a bang. From the 4th minute, Florian Sotoca asked one-on-one with Adrien Thomasson on the edge of the Greek penalty area. The opposition defense is fixed on the left, Wesley Saïd’s inside call adds to it and here Przemyslaw Frankowski is only perfect at the far post. The tool adjusted its member Bartlomiej Dragowski, just to launch Lensois European campaign without delay.
That of Pana already started from the end of July, a higher ground, but the Athenians were transferred to C4 after the third qualifying round for the Europa League lost against Ajax Amsterdam (0-1, 1 -0, 13-12 in tabs). Scalded by an interminable penalty shootout, the Greeks did not find their lucidity in the face of the propensity of the Artesians to project themselves en masse towards opposing cages.
However, they are one less. Facundo Medina received a red card in the 22nd minute for a mark on the calf of Anastasios Bakasetas. But for his European baptism, Will will also reform his three-man defense with the entry of Abdukodir Khusanov.
Abolish punishment
It’s not enough to slow down the Lens’s bright aggressive changes. After a pass from Deiver Machado, Thomasson sent a great cross to Saïd, who finished in two stages (2-0, 34th).
Relatively harmless, the Athenians relied on a personal exploit from Fotis Ioannidis to undermine the calm of Lens. To start it, nothing more: RCL continued to find interesting positions in the opposite area, but the excellent position of Dragowski kept his team in the game. The latter, however, could not defend both his camps and lead the Greek attacks. Pana would have needed him to be around a strong 5-man defense.
The only real scare was a penalty that was whistled in the 85th minute before it was overturned using VAR. Also won the second victory in the leadership of his new team, four days after the first victory in Angers (1-0). The aim will be to turn this promising result into qualification for the League One group stage during the return leg. In terms of numbers, Lens is far from guaranteed to pass. From a footballing point of view, Andy Diouf and his partners have shown that they have the means. It remains to be confirmed in front of the heated stands of the Apostos Nikolaïdis stadium next Thursday.
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