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Both Lille and Chelsea are still empty-handed in Group H of the Champions League, so both the French and the English are under pressure. So a lot is at stake in the Stade Pierre-Mauroy on Wednesday evening.
Lille:
Lille is building a new team. The Northern French sold star player Nicolas Pepe to Arsenal for about 80,000,000 euros last summer, after which there was sufficient budget to attract thirteen new players. The young striker Victor Osimhen in particular turned out to be a direct hit with six goals and two assists in eight league matches, although the Nigerian could not prevent Lille from losing Ajax 3 weeks ago with a 3-0 blow.
In the Johan Cruijff Arena, Lille was really not as bad as the result suggests, but that means that the team has to grab points in-house on Wednesday-evening to keep their chances of reaching the knockout phase in the Champions League alive . With draws visiting Rennes (1-1) and Nice (1-1) and a home win over Strasbourg (2-0), the team of coach Christophe Galtier has reasonably recovered from the blow against Ajax, and it starts somewhat again to look like the team that surprisingly crowned itself as vice-champion of France last season. In the own Stade Pierre-Mauroy, the red-blue this season with four competition wins in a row are still clear.
Chelsea:
Also Chelsea cannot afford a defeat on Wednesday evening, after the bitter 0-1 defeat of Valencia on its own Stamford Bridge two weeks ago. Ross Barkley, in particular, must have scratched his head after killing a late penalty kick.
Partly due to the transfer embargo, the talents will get plenty of opportunities at Chelsea this season, but their capriciousness also brings the associated problems. In the back in particular, the English regularly dropped a stitch, although they finally achieved their first clean sheet of the season at the expense of Brighton (2-0 win) last weekend. That must have given the team confidence, although trainer Frank Lampard is still struggling with a laundry list of injured players. The defensive department in particular has been hit hard by Antonoio RĂ¼diger, Emerson and possibly also Kurt Zouma and N’Golo Kante.