It is a revamped Lille team that will host Paris Saint-Germain this Sunday evening (8:45 p.m.) at the end of the third day of Ligue 1. At the top, the Mastiffs will have to compose without Mohamed Bayo, yet holder during the first two meetings of the season. According to L’Equipe, the striker was removed from the group by Olivier Létang, president of Losc, after a photo of him in a nightclub on Saturday evening, the day before the match, was published on social networks.
The day before, Bayo was however part of the list of 21 players officially summoned to take part in the clash against PSG. But the situation would have changed earlier today. It would not be the first disciplinary gap in the career of the Guinean, who arrived this summer from Clermont. Last October, he was notably arrested for drunken driving, which earned him a two-month suspended prison sentence, a 4,000 euro fine and a license suspension.
At the time of his signature, he had nevertheless affirmed his desire to change his behavior. “At 23, you want to have fun,” he explained to L’Equipe. But there are limits. If you believe that we can score 14 goals in Ligue 1 and go out every night…” Tipped to start on the right side for Lille, Jonathan David should replace him at the forefront of the attack, while Gabriel Gudmundsson should make his entered the eleven. According to La Voix du Nord, Carlos Baleba was called into the group to do the number.