Up front, Will Still didn't really have a choice. Between the injuries (Martin Satriano, Wesley Saïd), the suspension of M'bala Nzola, Flo Sotoca injured in the left adductor in Paris and who only trained individually this week, all that remains is coach that Rémy Labeau-Lascary available in attack and still he is sick. The young neo-pro Kembo Diliwidi (18 years old) is also on the match sheet for the very first time and we could see him come into play.
In defense and among the pistons, with the absences of Kodir Khusanov, suspended for two matches after his direct red card in Paris, and Ruben Aguilar (shoulder), no surprise. It will be a classic three-way defense Jonathan Gradit – Kevin Danso – Facundo Medina (return from suspension). Przemyslaw Frankowski, forfeited against PSG (instep), regains his place as right piston, Deiver Machado continues on the left.
What animation?
Changes, however, in midfield: Neil El-Aynaoui, for the first time since his knee injury at the end of last season, Adrien Thomasson and Andy Diouf will all line up. We imagine that like against Lille with Medina and against PSG, during the match, with Hamzat Ojediran, the Franco-Moroccan could play sentry in front of the defense in a 3-1-4-2, with David Pereira da Costa, who had not started for two months and the match against Lyon on September 15 in free electron and Labeau-Lascary in front. This would be the preferred option.
But it will be necessary to verify it in the field because the Lensois coach could also keep his usual system by taking Diouf or Thomasson up a notch, or even playing with two facilitators on the sides and Labeau-Lascary alone at the forefront.
Nantes side, who should play with a 5-man defensewe find the former Lensois Kevin Duverne, the coach Antoine Kombouaré, but the other ex-Artésiens, Ignatius Ganago and Jean-Philippe Gbamin, start on the bench.
LENS : Samba () ; Gradit, Danso, Medina ; El Aynaoui ; Frankowski, Diouf, Thomasson, Machado ; Pereira da Costa, Labeau-Lascary.
NANTES : Laffont ; Amian, Pallois, Casteletto Duverne, Cozza; Chirivella (c), Augustus; Abline, Mohamed, Simon.
