Disillusioned by their last outing in the league, LOSC hosts Stade Brestois this Friday for a Champions League level duel in the middle of the weekend. The Mastiffs barely escaped last season.
Where and how to follow the meeting?
Undermined by an achievement conceded in the last minutes in Montpellier, it must be said that a bad habit has been acquired, LOSC has the opportunity to relaunch itself this Friday with the reception of Stade Brestois, which is having a shaky season. -saw and still makes his supporters dream. The Pirates, brilliant on the European scene, are positioned just ahead of the Mastiffs in the Champions League, a symbol that the upcoming meeting promises to be as balanced as it is tricky. This is also the time to bring back your stuffed animal. Like last season, as Christmas approaches, LOSC and its supporters sections are organizing a large solidarity collection of soft toys for children in need.
This meeting, scheduled for this Friday, December 6 at 7 p.m., will be broadcast on the antennas of DAZN. If you do not have a subscription to the British platform, you can enjoy a friendly atmosphere between supporters at our partner restaurant / pub: At Office V2 located at 21 avenue Avenir at Heron Parc, 59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq.
The kick-off of this opposition, counting for the fourteenth day of Ligue 1, will be given by Benoît Bastien (41 years old), at 7 p.m. The second best referee of the 2023-2024 season will be accompanied by his sidekicks Hicham
Zakrani et Aurélien Berthomieu along the sidelines. Hakim Ben El Hadj will be the fourth referee when Bastien Dechepy et Maxime Apruzzese
will be responsible for video assistance to the refereeing. In total, this will be the 32nd meeting of the Lille team led by the native of Epinal with whom they have a record of 11 victories, 12 draws and 8 defeats. That of Stade Brestois is much more negative with only 2 successes, against 4 draws and 6 losses in 12 games.
History of recent meetings
We know this reality: LOSC has not lost any of its last 13 matches in all competitions (7 wins, 6 draws). This is the longest running streak among the elite players, who will no doubt hope to continue with further success this Friday. We will nevertheless have to face Stade Brestois, which combines national and European games for the very first time in its history. The Bretons are eleventh, only three points ahead of the jump-off, and sometimes struggle to string together oppositions. However, they were able to smile again at the weekend with a success against Strasbourg (3-1) which followed three consecutive losses in the league.
The Pirates also have difficulty tackling the Lille team, which most often resists the invader. The latter have only won three of the last fifteen clashes between the two clubs since the turn of the century (4 draws and 8 defeats).
The latest meetings between the two clubs
- Brest – LOSC: 1-1, March 17, 2024
- LOSC – Brest: 1-0, October 22, 2023
- LOSC – Brest: 2-1, February 24, 2023
- Brest – LOSC: 0-0, January 11, 2023
- Brest – LOSC: 2-0, January 22, 2022
Summary of the last meeting
As part of the ninth day of Ligue 1 Uber Eats, the LOSC players experienced a victorious afternoon. Always so early in his achievements in the championship, Yusuf Yazici (6′) launched his team towards a victory which could have been greater if the Mastiffs, such as Jonathan David, Edon Zhegrova or even Ivan Cavaleiro, had been more successful in the last thirty opposing meters. Never truly safe, we had to fight and grit our teeth to maintain the advantage until the final whistle. The Lille team had simply taken advantage of Brest’s clumsiness to achieve a precious success (1-0). The reception of the Brestons, who finished this season on the third step of the podium, had everything of a trap match, from which Paulo Fonseca’s men had managed to extricate themselves brilliantly.
This meeting was also unique for Ayyoub Bouaddi who, seventeen days after making his professional debut, it was in the Faroe Islands, became (at 16 years and 20 days) the youngest LOSC player to play in the League. 1.
