Quote from: bering on July 20, 2023, 03:11:19 PM

Quote from: Sterbens on July 20, 2023, 03:35:37 AM

Quote from: CLS63 on July 19, 2023, 10:31:57 PM

Lens are going to be a surprising member in the Champions League this season. They have just lost one of their important players as well. Openda has signed for Leipzig. If Leipzig didn't qualify for the Champions League then maybe Lens could have used the Champions League card for their benefit. However they are at equal conditions now so it is a smart choice for him to choose Leipzig.

Because I don't expect Lens to do very impressive things here. They have been quite inexperienced as there has been a very long time period since the last time they joined this tournament.

I actually don't want to pin what Lens can do on what Paris Saint Germain can do, because it's very possible for these two teams to get different results. But we know that Paris Saint Germain is the strongest team in Ligue 1 also still very difficult to talk much in the Champions League, and I think what about Lens? I don't mean to underestimate him at all, but again the same thing I think, if you look at these two teams, inconsistency is still thickly enveloping them, so that's the reason why I don't really believe and don't give Lens great hopes. But I also do not rule out the possibility that my analysis will be broken by Lens.

People know this is Lens first appearance in this competition and looking forward to see their performance later that whether Lens can being an dark horses who possibly to broke the domination of strong teams in champion league or they will be failed to qualified to the next stage but if they can able to displayed good performance just liked last season i think they have good chances to qualified that at France league Lens has very solid defense and from 38 matches Lens only able to conceded 29 goals which is these statistics is much better even if we compared with PSG which is the champion of Ligue 1

But Lens condition doesn't really good that Lens this summer have lost some of their important players such as Loïs Openda and Seko Fofana and my prediction is losing these players will have an impact to Lens performance because these players is very important players for them and i think it proven from Lens latest match result that against Ligue 2 team Amiens SC they were failed to win

Lens' condition is unpredictable because I don't think anyone expected this season that they could qualify for the Champions League with a good performance that wasn't even shown in the previous season and as you said, losing some players will also make it a little bit more difficult for them to navigate the busy schedule in the domestic league and in the Champions League.

Talking about the new face of the Champions League now is actually not only Lens that should be seen how the progress is.
This season there are several clubs that I can actually say are quite unique. Newcastle from the EPL, Lens from Ligue 1, Sociedad from La Liga and Union from the Bundesliga are clubs that are quite interesting to see their progress in the highest Champions League competition.