Extremely rare, Jonathan David will not occupy the point of the LOSC attack this weekend at the Meinau stadiumsuspended due to too many yellow cards received. A remarkable endurance and health player, the Canadian is almost never absent, even when he returns long trips with his selection.
The New York native was only replacing four occasions with the northern club this season, proof of its importance in the ‘Dogues’ system. How is Lille to unravel the defense of the Alsatian club, undefeated for seven matches, without his providential attackerscorer 18 times all competitions this season?
The looks will turn to Mohamed Bayo, who has been worth the start of the year, that Bruno Genesio should relaunch. “Mohamed Bayo For me is the natural replacement of Jonathan David since he is a specialist in the post, “he says.” It is very likely that he will be brought to replace him. “
Around him, Hakon Haraldssonin great shape in 2025, will have the keys to the game and undoubtedly even more responsibilities, still in the absence of the injured EDON ZHEGROVA – of which Genesio “thinks he will not be in the group” – and Matias Fernandez -Pardo, the two main detonators of this team by their dribbles and their races.
An opening for Angel Gomes
This meeting should also allow Angel Gomes, so precious in the midfield at the very start of the season, to accumulate playing time. “Angel needs to find the rhythm of the matches, gradually, confirms Genesio. The difficulty is that as we chain a lot of matches, very little training time, so you have to do it through matches , but it is not always easy.
-Behind also, a basic man will not take the lawn in Strasbourg: Alexsandro, suspended. Still among the best Lille in Liverpool Tuesday evening in the Champions League (Defered 2-1), the Brazilian will surely miss the Lille rearguard, Who will have to contain “the intensity, the races, the carelessness” of “a team that scores a lot of goals”, observes Genesio.
Other important players will miss because of suspensions during this sequence of crucial matches for the rest of the season. Aïssa Mandi and especially Benjamin André will be absent against Feyenoord on Wednesday (9:00 p.m.) during the final meeting of the C1 League phase which will decide on the direct qualification or not from Lille for the knockout stages. The captain of the ‘DOGUES’, too often penalized for his commitment and his disputes with the arbitrators, will also be in the gallery in Ligue 1 during the reception of Saint-Etienne three days later.
“This is why we have to have a substantial workforce, to compensate for the absences of the players suspended or not qualified, because against Feyenoord, André Gomes and Aaron Malouda, who is regularly in the group, are not Registered on the list, underlines Bruno Genesio. It makes a lot of absences for different reasons. We will compensate, in the midfield, it is a sector where we still have a little people, On other positions, it can be tense, but it is the lot of teams that play a lot. “
All these reasons should push Lille to recruit a player in the offensive sector in the coming weeks.
