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Squad value€245.1m
Squad value€255.6m
Key playerDilane Bakwa
Key playerAbde Ezzalzouli
Head coachDavide Ancelotti
Head coachManuel Pellegrini
Lille press high and Real Betis insist on playing out through it. Expect the ball lost in dangerous places.
Real Betis break fast and Lille leave a high line to break into.
Lille and Real Betis both push numbers forward, so neither back four gets much cover.
Their most dangerous attacks come down their own right, where right-back Tiago Santos overlaps Ethan Mbappé. Against PSG every big chance arrived from that side.
“Les plus grosses occasions lilloises sont d’ailleurs passées par ce côté gauche de la défense parisienne.”Lille's biggest chances did in fact all come down that left side of the Paris defence. our translation
Lille hunt the ball high up. The two strikers block the pass into the middle, the wingers herd the ball out towards the touchline, and the full-backs step right up to meet it there.
“Mukau et Bentaleb montent d’un cran pour verrouiller Belkhdim et Diatta tandis que les ailiers Önal et Mbappé orientent la relance vers l’extérieur avec un positionnement haut des latéraux Perraud et Santos.”Mukau and Bentaleb step up a level to lock down Belkhdim and Diatta while the wingers Önal and Mbappé steer the ball out towards the touchline, with the full-backs Perraud and Santos positioned high. our translation
Their full-backs push so far forward that if Lille lose the ball in midfield there is open grass behind them. Quick wingers punish that.
“Avec des latéraux positionnés très haut en phase de possession, la moindre perte de balle dans le cœur du jeu offrira des boulevards aux virevoltants joueurs de couloir adverses que peuvent être Jim Allevinah, Lilian Raolisoa et Anthony Bermont.”With the full-backs positioned very high while Lille have the ball, the slightest loss of possession in midfield will open motorways for lively opposition wide players such as Jim Allevinah, Lilian Raolisoa and Anthony Bermont. our translation
Corners and free kicks into their box are the moment to watch. Their own manager says that is where they keep giving goals away.
“Yo creo que fue más un problema de rendimiento individual, se cometen errores, sobre todo en balones detenidos que no se puede dar esa ventaja”I think it was more a problem of individual performance; mistakes are being made, above all at set pieces, where you cannot hand over that advantage our translation
Almost everything good comes down the touchlines. Antony on the right and Abde on the left get the ball and run straight at their marker, with a full-back overlapping outside them.
“Como el año pasado, con Abde y Antony como estiletes, contra la Real Sociedad otra vez generó peligro por las bandas.”As they did last year, with Abde and Antony as the sharp points, they once again created danger down the wings against Real Sociedad. our translation
The flip side of all that speed: they struggle to slow a game down. If they are ahead late on, watch them stop controlling it and start hanging on.
“Ahí se repitió también una seña de identidad de la temporada pasada, que tiene que ver con la necesidad de mejorar el control de juego en determinadas fases.”There, another hallmark of last season repeated itself too, one that has to do with the need to improve their control of the game in certain phases. our translation