Champions League: at what time and on which channel to follow Sporting-Lille?

Here it is, the long-awaited moment has arrived: the Champions League is making its grand return. The 36 candidates for the European title, on May 31 in Munich, are launching their journey this week in the new C1 format. During this first round new lookeach of the teams involved will play eight matches (compared to six previously), against eight different opponents. Enough to offer us some big clashes even before the knockout phase.

On the French side, LOSC opens the show, Tuesday, September 17 (at 9 p.m., live on Canal+), with a trip to the pitch of Sporting Portugal, the reigning Portuguese champion. In the Lisbon capital, Bruno Genesio's “Dogues”, qualified after having trembled until the end of the promotion play-off against Slavia, arrive on a negative dynamic, with doubts born from their last three matches, all concluded in defeats (2-1 in Prague, 1-3 against PSG and 1-0 in Saint-Étienne).

A bad patch that the northern coach played down. Certainly, “Sporting is the favorite”but “the weakest team can beat the strongest”he assured the press, on the eve of this first European meeting. “I'm not saying that's what's going to happen tomorrow (Tuesday), I'm just saying that's how football is, and that's what makes everyone love football.”

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