In this section, Le Petit Lillois gives a voice to LOSC supporters at the end of each of its meetings. This time, it's a bit special. It's time to take stock of a wild first part of the season while the second is already knocking on our door.
Just a few hours ago, the entire Lille community turned a page and thus closed the chapter called 2024. With this, the first part of the season definitively ended, which saw LOSC play a series of matches at a rapid pace. frantic since August, on the national scene as on the continent. The winter break, which is also preparing to give way to the rest of the 2024-2025 financial year, is the time to take stock of the mid-season.
For this special episode, four LOSC supporters were interviewed. It is about Dimitri,
Roman, Clément et
Laurent. Let's go, and quickly, before time catches up with us!
It's time to take stock
Spectacular victories and a certain regularity, in both successes and failures, LOSC has grown over the last six months and to start, what could be better than to start with
Clément. The latter takes our hand and zooms out in order to look back generally at the progress of the first part of the Lille season: “The first thing, because there are plenty, are the raw results. We are at the foot of the podium in Ligue 1 and eighth at the end of the first six days of the championship phase of the Champions League. It's more than we could have hoped for and this shows the great work accomplished by the management, the staff and the players since the start of the seasonhe applauds. The group seems to live together really well and everyone has a chance. There is youth, old hands and players in the prime of life. It's well balanced. The injuries will have been an opportunity for players who were not supposed to play as much and who were able to rise to the occasion and take over from those who were absent. It's something wonderful in a group, where the recruits have been able to integrate well. There is a great team this season and they deserve to do something big, to go for a title. In a word, it’s exceptional”concludes Clément, ambitious with a big, very big smile on his lips.
Much younger, Roman can only acquiesce, even if she will choose a path worthy of a roller coaster:
“I can only give a very good assessment. We experienced incredible emotionsshe says. I just have a little bitter taste with our points lost stupidly along the way. I always think of Saint-Etienne, Nice and Montpellier, but that’s how it is. Frankly, we could hardly have dreamed of better. I hope that this great dynamic will continue in 2025.she hopes now, crossing her fingers.
“Well, it's a little difficult to pass by all these beautiful people and say something differentjudge first Laurentin the process. Well, I'm taking my courage in both hands and I'm going to settle for a huge MERCI. If we love our club, it's because it represents us. If we go to the stadium, it's because we experience emotion after emotion. It would be a lie to say that we haven't experienced any in the last six months, so simply
MERCI. In a certain way, it is also through the Mastiffs that we feel alive”says the most experienced of those interviewed.
The special issue
Questioned later, Dimitri didn't have the words at first: “There’s nothing else to say other than… Honestly…he stammers, he who usually has the answer to everything. Since I have been a supporter, I believe that it is one of the most beautiful first parts of the season that I have experienced. It's totally crazy. I put it on the same level as the first part of the 2020-21 season, the year in which we were champions. For now, it's difficult to do better. You are doing great in the Champions League, you are fighting for the podium and you are playing well. He may be missing a victory against a big player in Ligue 1, but it is very, very encouraging for the future. I am very happy, very proud to be a supporter of LOSC, even more so this year. I am proud of what the players produce.
I got attached to this team, I like the players who make it up. There are great stories, players who have been there for a long time, young people who come from the club, I'm really starting to like it, like I've rarely liked a team.”confides the young man, in whom emotions mix. It is through them that the conclusion is born.
