Lens-PSV Eindhoven is a match valid for the third day of the Champions League group stage and is played Tuesday at 9 p.m.: TV, lineups, predictions.
A month ago, Lens returned to taste the thrill of playing a Champions League match 20 years after the last time. And it was precisely Europe that regenerated Franck Haise’s men, who got off to the worst possible start: four defeats and a draw in the first five league days. A nightmare roster for a team that last year, in Ligue 1, finished second behind Psg.
But everything has changed since the match in Seville, which saw the Giallorossi emerge unscathed – against all odds – from the Andalusian bowl of the “Sanchez Pizjuan” (1-1), thanks to a performance that was encouraging, to say the least. Yes, because since then Lens has not lost a game, neither in the cup nor in the league, including the one, of historic magnitude, against Arsenal in a “Bollaert-Delelis” gone mad with joy. Thomasson and Wahi put back the Gunners, who had taken the lead after a quarter of an hour through Gabriel Jesus: a resounding and hard-to-predict success that allows, for now, the French to lead Group B on 4 points. Things are looking up in the league as well, although after a draw in the derby with Lille, Lens did not go beyond a 0-0 draw with newly promoted Le Havre in their first post-season outing, missing an opportunity to move away from the lower reaches of the standings.
A PSV double face
Now the first of two challenges with Psv Eindhoven, which will tell us whether Lens is really capable of fighting for one of the top two places.
Teze celebrated after goal at Sevilla
The Dutch are running in the Eredivisie – the only team with full points after nine rounds – but in the Champions League so far they have been disappointing. First the very clear defeat at the Emirates Stadium to Arsenal (4-0), then the home draw with Sevilla (2-2), in which Peter Bosz’s men avoided another defeat only thanks to Teze’s goal in the fifth minute of recovery. Psv is momentarily last and the margin for error is starting to become small if the goal is to move on in the competition. In France Bosz will not be able to count on Bella-Kotchap and Lang, while Wahi, Machado and da Costa return in Lens.
The Prediction
Impossible to go against Lens, especially in its stadium, the place where it built its greatest fortunes last year. We imagine a positive result for the Giallorossi in a game of at least one goal on each side
The likely lineups for Lens-PSV Eindhoven
- LENS (3-4-2-1): Samba; Gradit, Danso, Medina; Frankowski, Abdul Samed, N. Mendy, Machado; Sotoca, Thomasson; Wahi.
- PSV EINDHOVEN (4-3-3): Benítez; Teze, Ramalho, Boscagli, van Aanholt; Tillman, Saibari, Veerman; Bakayoko, de Jong, Lozano.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-1
